An ounce of wit that’s bought is worth a pound that’s taught.
一号傻瓜自认聪明，二号傻瓜自称聪明，三号傻瓜无视忠告。
The first degree of folly is to hold oneself wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel.
夜晚孕育智慧。
Night is the mother of counsel.
有些人聪明，有些人则不然。
Some are wise and some are otherwise.
有智不在年高。
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
The beard does not make the philosopher.
愚蠢地生活，即使学到了智慧也枉然。
It is altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
愚者不会发怒，智者不愿发怒。
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
愚者从自己的经历中受益，智者借鉴他人经验。
Experience is the mistress / teacher of fools.
愚者从智者那里学不到东西，智者从愚者那里获益匪浅。
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者常被智者所利用。
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat / enjoy.
愚者打结，智者解开。
Fools tie knots, and wise men loose them
愚者话多，智者话少.。
The fool has his heart on his tongue, the wise man keeps his tongue in his heart.
愚者忙别人，不知忙自己。
The fool is busy in everyone’s business but his own.
愚者徘徊，智者前进。
The fool wanders the wise man travels.
愚者饶舌，智者思虑。
A stupid fellow is talkative（多嘴的）; a wise man is meditative（沉思的）.
愚者所问，智者难答。
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than wise man can answer in seven years.
愚者也能找出智者无法纠正的错误。
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy.
愚者易竭其智。蠢兵射箭，很快射完。
The fool’s bolt is soon spent.
愚者用嘴讲，智者用心想。
The fool talks, and the wise man thinks.
愚者越是富有就越是愚蠢。
The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is.
愚者指望明天，智者利用今晚。
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight.
愚者在做羞愧事时，总说是义不容辞。
When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
愚者自以为聪明，智者则有自知之明。。
The fool does think that he is wise, but the wise man knows himself.
愚者总爱自鸣得意。
The ass wags his ears.
愚者最后干的是智者最初干的。
What the fools does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning.
愚者做事，虎头蛇尾。
The fool begins but never ends a business.
与智者同行得其智；与愚者为伍走向毁灭。
He that walks with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
阅历使人变聪明。
A man must become wise at his own experience.
再蠢的人，也不会在同一个地方跌倒两次。
Wherever an ass falls, there will be never fall again.
真正的智慧是，知道什么是最值得知道的，
True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.
知蠢人者多，蠢人自知者少。
There’s more knows Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
知人者智，自知者明。
He who knows others is learned, and he who knows himself is wise.
知足者是聪明人。
He is wise who knows when he is well enough.
只有智者善于利用空闲。
None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
智慧贵于宝石。
Price of wisdom is above rubies.
智慧加勤劳，走遍天下都不怕。
A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
智慧就是财富。
Wits are wealth.
智慧来源于谦逊。
Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
智慧与博学不是与生俱来的。
No man is born wise or learned.
智慧与年龄具增。
Wisdom comes with age.
智慧与志向，携手奋斗得胜利。
Wit and will strive for the victory.
智者把言语当作手段，愚者把言语当作目的。
Words are the wise man’s counters and the fool’s money.
智者不会说错话。
Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door.
智者不上两回当。
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait（诱饵）.
智者不用细说。
A word is enough to / for the wise.
Half a tale / word is enough for a wise man.
智者从别人的错误中吸取教训，愚者则自己付出代价。
Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes; fools by their own.
智者从不强求不可求之事。
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者独处不觉独。
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
智者逢人只说三分话，愚者逢人全抛一片心。
Wise men have their mouths in their heats; fools their hearts in their mouths.
智者改变主意，愚者固执己见。
Wise men chage their mind; fool never do.
智者干起蠢事来，就会蠢到极点。
If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance（极度）.
No man can play the fool so well as the wise man.
智者寡言。贵人少语。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
He is a wise man who speaks little.
Scholars are a quiet breed.
智者寡言，愚者多嘴。
The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.
Wise men are silent; fools talk.
智者寡言善听。
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
智者皆能视苦为乐。
Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
智者举一反三。
A wise man hears one word and understand two.
智者千虑，必有一失。
A good marksman may miss.
A good workman may miss.
The best workman may miss.
A wise man is not wise in everything.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
Great men are not always wise.
It is a good dog that can catch anything.
It is a good horse that never stumbles.
It is a good / skilful workman that never blunders（犯错误）.
It is a wise man that never makes mistakes.
The wisest make mistakes.
No man is wise at all times / hours.
The best man stumbles.
The best of us can make mistakes.
The best workman sometimes blunders.
The wise are not always wise.
智者认人，愚者认钱。公牛懂得它的主人，毛驴只知道它的饲料槽。
Ox knows his owner and the ass his master’s crib.（圣经）
智者善听。
The wise man is always a good listener.
智者善于吸取前车之鉴。
By other’s faults wise men correct their own.
智者少说多听。
A man of sense talks little and listens much.
智者随机应变。
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
智者提建议，愚者作决定。
Wise men propose, and foos determine.
智者通权达变，愚者刚愎自用。
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never (will).
智者无需劝， 愚者不听劝。
Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take.
智者想了再说，愚者想了就说。
A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
智者小心谨慎，愚者胆大妄为。天使不敢去的地方，傻子蜂拥而至。
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
智者以终为始，愚者以始为终。
A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning
智者有自知之明。
A wise man knows his own.
智者越老越聪明，无知者则更无知。
Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
智者之手从不做愚者所言之事。
The wise hand does not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
智者之言是保卫而不是攻击。
The wise man’s tongue is a shield, not a sword.
智者主宰自己的命运。
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
智者自认一无所知，愚者自以为无所不知。
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
最大的傻瓜就是操心自己办不到的事情。
The greatest fool is he who worries about what he cannot help.
最后聪明才算真聪明。
That’s good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
最伟大的人物并不是最智慧的人。
The greatest clerks are not the wisest men.