饱经沧桑的人不易沮丧。
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
必须靠活人活着，而不能靠死人活着。
We must live by the quick and not by the dead.
避开了诱惑就避开了罪恶。
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
博学多才者活得有价值。
He that lives will is learned enough.
不尝试就永远不知道自己能干什么。
You never know what you van do till you try.
不到黄河心不死。
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
不合潮流不如脱离尘世。
Better be out of the world than out of fashion.
不进取就不会犯错误。
He that never climbed never fell.
He that never ride never fell.
不经历挫折，就不会真正懂得人生的真谛。
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
不经历坎坷，就不懂得幸福是什么。
He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is.
不可与坏人为伍，以免近墨者黑。
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
不论智者还是愚者，都必有一死。
One event happened to them—wisdom and folly—all.
不时时反省的生命是没有价值的。
The unexamined life is not worth living.
不要光读懂书，还要读懂人。
Read not books alone, but men.
不知足是祸根。
A man’s discontent is his worst evil.
不知足者无人同情。
He that always complains is never pitied.
不知足者坐无宁日。
A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
长江后浪推前浪，一代更比一代强。
One generation passes away, and another generation comes.
吃得苦中苦，方做人上人。
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.
No cross, no crown.
吃饭是为了活着，而活着不是为了吃饭。
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
吃饭是为自己享用，穿衣是给别人看的。
Eat to please thyself（你自己）, but dress to please others.
出身高贵可能价值低，反之亦然。
A man of high birth be of low worth and vice versa.
除了经受痛苦和羞辱，没有人能够真正懂得生活。
No man learns but by pain or shame.
慈善遮百丑。
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
聪明不如门第高。
Better be born lucky than wise.
从没有好机遇的人是没有的。
There’s no wind which blows no man to good.
大千世界，无奇不有。
Fact / Truth is stranger than fiction.
大人物的子孙少出息。
Great men’s sons seldom do well.
到了坟墓里全摆平。
We shall lie all alike in our graves
第一次呼吸就意味着死亡的开始。
The first breath is the beginning of death.
得意时甜蜜蜜，失意时苦凄凄。
Sweet in the on taking, but sour in the off putting.
跌倒容易，爬起难。
One may sooner fall than rise.
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
对思考者来说，人生是喜剧；对没有思想的人来说，人生是悲剧。
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.
对他人贡献最多的人，活得最有价值。
He most lives who lives most for others.
对自己的不幸付之一笑，是一门伟大的艺术。
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
发光的未必都是金子。
All is not gold that glitters.
All that glitters is not gold.
放弃愿望的人，就是走向死亡的人。
He begins to die that quits his desires.
放纵导致疾病，懒惰导致贫穷。
Intemperance is attended with diseases, and idleness with poverty.
盖棺方能定论。
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Call me not fortunate till you see me buried.
Call no man happy till he dies.
Call no man happy before he is dead.
Do not praise a day before sunset.
In the evening one may praise the day.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
Praise no man till he is dead.
The evening crowns the day.
给与比索取更快乐。助人为乐。
It is more blessed to give than to take / receive.
给与比索取更重要。
It is better to give than to take.
根据功绩评价死者。
The dead are judged according to their deeds.
工作要认真，玩时要开心，这就是快乐人生。
Work while you work, play while you play. That’s the way to be happy and gay.
光荣之路也要通向坟墓。
The path of glory lead but to the grave.
光荣之路总是崎岖不平的。
The path to glory is always rugged.
过分自信的人生多坎坷。
He that is too secure is not safe.
好花不常开，好景不常在。花无百日红。
All that’s fair must fade.
Beauty fades like a flower.
Every day is not Sunday.
Roses and maiden soon lose their bloom.
The fairest flowers soon fade.
The fairest rose at last is withered.
The good time only comes once.
The morning sun never lasts a day.
Pleasant hours fly past.
好死不如赖活。
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
红颜多薄命。
Beautiful flowers are soon picked.
Beauty and luck seldom go hand in hand.
Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside.
坏名声者就是半死的人。
He that has an ill name, is half hanged.
Ill deemed, half hanged.
欢乐一时，痛苦一世。
Short pleasure, long lament.
黄泉路上不分贵贱。
Death spares neither small nor great.
Death spares neither Pope nor beggar.
活得有价值就等于有两次生命。
He lives twice who lives well.
活得最有价值就是最好的说教。
He preaches best who lives best.
活有价值，死得其所。
They die well that live well.
活着不是为了吃饭，但吃饭是为了活着。
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
Eat to live but do not live to eat.
活着不要光为自己打算。
Live not for yourself alone.
活得有价值就等于长寿。
He lives long that lives will.
He that lives well lives long.
活在后人的心中，虽死犹生。
To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die.
机会常有。
There’s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it
机会青睐有备之人。
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
今朝有酒今朝醉。
Fasting comes after feasting.
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
尽力而为，尽力节约，尽力给与。
Make all you can; save all you can; give all you can.
经历过黑暗的人，方知光亮的可贵。
Light shines in darkness.
经历过苦难，更懂得幸福。尝过胆汁苦，更知蜂蜜甜。
If you have tasted the bitterness of gall, you know better the sweetness of honey.
居茅屋者多知足，居宫廷者多贪求。
Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已。
Bend yourself to a task and exert yourself to the utmost.
举棋不定，一事无成。如果假设和拖延是锅碗瓢盆，补锅人就没活干了。
If ifs（假设）and ands（拖延）were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.
靠精神食粮生活的人将死于饥饿。
He who lives by hope will die by hunger.
可杀不可辱。
Dead before dishonor.
困难是人生的教科书。
Difficulties circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
蜡烛自焚身，光亮照别人。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
懒惰出乞丐。
Idleness is the key of beggary.
懒惰导致贫困。
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
懒惰能磨去才智的锋芒。
Idleness turns the edge of wit.
懒惰使头脑生锈。
Idleness is the rust of mind.
Idleness makes the wit rust.
Idleness rusts the mind.
懒惰是万恶之源。
Idleness is the mother / root of all evil / sin / vice.
Idleness is the parent of all vice.
懒驴上磨屎尿多。
Idle folks lack no excuses.
懒人不会有收获。
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
懒人的休息时间最少。
Lazy folks / people have the most labor.
懒人干活最费劲
Lazy folks / people have the most labor.
懒人干活最痛苦。
Idle people / folks take the most pain / have the most labor..
Lazy folks take the most pain.
懒人虽生如死。
Idle men are dead all their life long.
懒人永远没有好时机。
The sluggard’s convenient season never comes.
懒人总嫌活多。
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
懒人坐吃山空。
Idleness makes the fullest purse empty.
牢牢把握住属于你的东西。
Hold fast when you have it.
老医生好，年轻律师好。
An old physician, and a young lawyer.
乐观者灾难中见机遇，悲观者机遇中见灾难。
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity（灾祸）; a pessimist sees a calamity in
every opportunity.
乐极生悲。
A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.