[中文]：虽眼见亦不能全信,道听途说更不足信.
[英文]：I am not a bit anxious about my battles. If I am anxious I don’t fight them. I wait until I am ready.
[中文]：对于要打的仗, 我一点儿也不担心.要是担心我就不打.我要等到准备好时才打.
[出处]：B.Montgomery 蒙哥马利
[英文]：It’s no use pumping a dry well.
[中文]：枯井抽水,徒劳无功.
[英文]：It’s hard sailing when there is no wind.
[中文]：无风难驶船.
[英文]：A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
[中文]：一个人不能同时又纺又绕. /一心不能二用.
[英文]：Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
[中文]：除非要捉跳蚤,作事不可匆忙.
[英文]：Everything comes to him who waits.
[中文]：凡事要肯等待; 久等必有一得.
[英文]：Without method little can be done to any good purpose.
[中文]：没有方法,什么事也做不好.
[英文]：In every beginning think of the end.
[中文]：凡事一开始就要想到结果.
[英文]：Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.
[中文]：骄者往往早餐丰盛,午餐寒酸,晚餐时声名狼藉.
[英文]：The last drop makes the cup run over.
[中文]：满斟之杯,溢于最后一滴.
[英文]：Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
[中文]：岁月流逝,悲哀消失;思想专注,忧愁解除.
[英文]：Today is Yesterday’s pupil.
[中文]：今天是昨天的学生.
[英文]：One wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough so that you have to.
[中文]：外出休假的妙处是既使你身心舒畅,愿意回去工作,又使你不名一文,不得不去工作.
[英文]：I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ingnorant fool.
[中文]：我向你保证,一个有学问的傻瓜比无知的傻瓜更傻.
[出处]：Moliere 莫里哀(法国戏剧家)
[英文]：If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
[中文]：盲人领盲人,双双掉沟里.
[英文]：The man who doesn’t recognize a fool when he sees one is one himself.
[中文]：看见傻瓜而认不出来的人,自己也是傻瓜.
[出处]：B.Gracian 格拉西安(西班牙作家)
[英文]：The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
[中文]：愚者自以为智,智者自知其愚.
[英文]：Grasp all, lose all.
[中文]：贪多必失.
[英文]：Words without ideas are likes sails without wind.
[中文]：言之无物犹如有帆无风.
[英文]：A good marksman may miss.
[中文]：好射手也有失手的时候.
[英文]：Once bitten, twice shy.
[中文]：吃一次亏,学一次乖.
[英文]：A man can do no more than he can.
[中文]：凡事应量力而行.
[英文]：Problems can best be tackled by experts.
[中文]：万事怕行家.
[出处]：中国谚语
[英文]：He works best who knows his trade.
[中文]：万事怕行家.
[出处]：英语谚语
[英文]：The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
[中文]：多做事的捷径是每次只做一件事。
[英文]：First catch your hare, than cook him.
[中文]：先得兔而后烹之. /到手东西才算数.