諺語

1. Teach others by your example.以身作則

2. As you make your bed， so you must lie on it.自作自受

3. Practise what you preach.言出必行

4. Knowledge comes from experience alone.智慧出自經驗

5. Change lays not her hand upon truth.真理永恒

6. Pure gold does not fear furnace.真金不怕火煉

7. There is no smoke without fire.無風不起浪

8. Birds of a feather flock together.物以類聚，人以群分。

9. One 1 step will make a great difference.失之毫厘，謬以千里。

10. An efficacious medicine tastes bitter.良藥苦口

11. Too much cleverness is folly.過分聰明反愚蠢

12. The tree will wither long before it fall.大樹久枯必倒下

13. Never trust too fine words.切勿輕信漂亮言辭

14. He that once deceives is ever suspected.騙人一次，受疑一生。

15. All asses way their ears.傻瓜都愛裝聰明

16. Believe no tales from the enemy.敵人之言不可信

17. All that glitters is not gold.閃光的并非都是金子

18. Men make mistakes; horses stumble.人有失手，馬有失蹄。

19. A man without distant care would have sorrow.人無遠慮，必有近憂。

20. A little pot is soon hot.量小者易怒

21. Too far East is West.過東則西，物極必反。

22. Misfortunes never come singly.禍不單行

23. It’s no use pumping a dry well.涸井汲水，無濟于事。

24. Call a spade a spade.直言不諱

25. A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出，駟馬難追。

26. A bird may be known by its song.聞其言而知其人。

27. The proof of the pudding is the eating.空談不如實踐

28. No road is long with good company.與良友為伴，路遙不覺遠。

29. Better good neighbours that are near than relatives far away.遠親不如近鄰

30. Distance is naught while heart with heart can meet.心心能相印，距離等于零。

31. Even brothers keep careful accounts.親兄弟明算賬

32. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.患難知真友

33. Calamity is man’s true touchstone.患難見人心

34. Fortune favours the bold.勇者多福

35. Better ask twice than lose your way once.多問一次路，總比迷路強。

36. True happiness is in a constented mind.知足常樂

37. Fortune knocks once at least at everyone’s gate.人人都有走運的一天

38. Faith will move mountains.精誠所至，金石為開。

39. Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.世上無難事，只要肯登攀。

40. Time and tide wait for no man.時不我待

41. No one can call back yesterday.時不再來

42. Strike while the iron is hot. 趁熱打鐵

43. An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time.寸金難買寸光陰

44. Many hands make light work.人多好辦事

45. You cannot clap with one hand.孤掌難鳴

46. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.榮譽和私利不能并存

47. Honour is the reward of virtue.榮譽是對美德的獎賞

48. Kindness always begets kindness.善有善報

49. It was no sooner said than done.說到做到

50. A thousand-mile trip begins with one step.千里之行，始于足下。

51. It’s an ill bird that fouls its own nest.家丑不可外揚

52. Unpolished pearls never shine.玉不琢不成器

53. Where there is a will， there is a way.有志者事竟成

54. Youth is half the battle.年輕氣盛就是一半成功

55. Slight impatience may spoil great goals.小不忍則亂大謀

56. Things rashly taken end as ill.匆忙常致惡果

57. Modesty is the color of virtue.謙虛是美德的色彩

58. Modesty is the light of faith.謙虛是信念的燈塔