wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it .
爲了求知識，代價雖高也值得。
joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
與衆同樂，其樂更樂。
happiness takes no account of time.
歡樂不覺日子長。
time and tide waits for no man.
歲月不等人。
if you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知，必須刻苦。
learn to walk before you run.
循序漸進。
knowing something of everything, and everything of something.
通百藝而專一長。
from words to deeds is a great space.
言行之間，大有距離。
nothing for nothing.
不費力氣，一無所得。
of nothing comes nothing.
無中不能生有。
he who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
不犯錯誤者一事無成。
better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
話不中肯，不如不說。
nothing succeeds like success.
一事如意，萬事順利。
nothing stake, nothing draw.
不頂千里浪，哪來萬斤魚。
nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
期待比現實更美好。
nothing is given so freely as advice.
勸人最容易。
nothing is so certain as the unexpected.
天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福。
skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是無敵的軍隊。
habit is a second nature.
習慣成自然。
lifeless, faultless.
只有死人才不會犯錯誤。
a book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
好書千載常如新。
books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
讀書如擇友，宜少且宜精。
a book that remains shut is but a block.
書本不常翻，猶如一塊磚。
it‘s not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
君子在德不在衣。
two heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠頂個諸葛亮。
birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身重要，教養更重要。
nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
世上無難事，只怕有心人。
you can‘t make something out of nothing.
巧婦難爲無米之炊。
nothing venture, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
nothing seek, nothing find.
無所求則無所獲。
a little of every thing is nothing in the main.
每事淺嘗輒止，事事都告無成。
a great ship asks deep waters.
大船要走深水。(蛟龍要在海中游。)
the best physicians are dr. diet, dr. quiet, and dr. merryman.
節食博士、精心博士、快樂博士，三人都是最好的醫生。
he that once deceives is ever suspected.
騙人一次，受疑一世。
empty wagons rattle loudest.
空車響聲大。
