A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

　　不善始者不善終。

　　A bad thing never dies.

　　遺臭萬年。

　　A bad workman always blames his tools.

　　不會撐船怪河彎。

　　A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

　　一鳥在手勝過雙鳥在林。

　　A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.

　　吹牛與說謊本是同宗。

　　A bully is always a coward.

　　色厲內荏。

　　A burden of one's choice is not felt.

　　愛挑的擔子不嫌重。

　　A candle lights others and consumes itself.

　　蠟燭照亮別人，卻毀滅了自己。

　　A cat has 9 lives.

　　貓有九條命。

　　A cat may look at a king.

　　人人平等。

　　A close mouth catches no flies.

　　病從口入。

　　A constant guest is never welcome.

　　常客令人厭。

　　Actions speak louder than words.

　　事實勝于雄辯。

　　Adversity leads to prosperity.

　　窮則思變。

　　Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

　　逆境出人才。

　　A fair death honors the whole life.

　　死得其所，流芳百世。

　　A faithful friend is hard to find.

　　知音難覓。

　　A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

　　吃一塹，長一智。

　　Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to dropback.

　　學習如逆水行舟，不進則退。

　　There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power.

　　沒有偉大的意志力，便沒有雄才大略。—— Balzac 巴爾扎克

　　Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.

　　不管追求什么目標，都應堅持不懈。

　　The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.( w. james )

　　生命的最大用處是將它用于能比生命更長久的事物上。(詹姆斯)

　　East or west,home is best.

　　東好西好，還是家里最好。

　　Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)

　　離別之于愛情好比風之于火，它能將小火熄滅，使大火熊熊燃燒。(法國作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)

　　Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

　　生命力不但在于堅持下去的能力，還在于從頭再來的能力。

　　You cannot improve your past, but you can improve your future. Once time is wasted, life is wasted.

　　你不能改變你的過去，但你可以讓你的未來變得更美好。一旦時間浪費了，生命就浪費了。