英文谚语

3. All cats are grey in the dark.
貓在黑暗中通通都是灰色的。
4. Beauty and honesty seldom agree.
美貌和貞潔難得和睦相處。美女多不貞。
5. Beauty and wisdom rarely go together. [German Proverb]
英文諺語
Absence and Presence
（在與不在）
1.Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
離別削減小愛，卻增添大愛。
2. Absence is mother of disillusion.
疏離是覺悟之母。
3. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
眼不見，心不念。
13. Salt water and absence washaway love.
遠離久別恩情疏。
14. The absent are always in the wrong.
誰人背後無人說，哪個人前不說人。
15. The absent are never with fault, nor the present without excuse.
酒杯空言少見成效。
12. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
別班門弄斧。
13. Good counsel has no price. (Good counsel is beyond price.)
良
言乃無價之寶。
14. Good counsel never comes amiss.
Actions and Words
（行動與空談）
. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
一個光說不做的人好像一個花園，裏面長滿都是野草。
2. A word before is worth two behind.
9. Deeds are males, and words are females.
「做」是男人的事，
「說」是女人的事。
10. Deeds, not words.
在於行動，不在於言語。說得到，做得到。言出必行。
11. Few words are best.
少說為妙。
12. Fine words butter no parsnips.
雖不是怎麼大不了的
事，若不接受，便是傻瓜。
2. Advice is a stranger, if welcome he stays for the night; if not welcome he returns home the same
day. [African Proverb]
忠告是一位陌生客，
老馬識途。
18. Ill counsel mars all.
不好的忠告損毀一切。
19. One gives nothing so liberally as advice. (Nothing is given so freely as advice.)
沒
有
任
何
東
西像忠告那麼慷慨。
20. Self is a bad counselor.
美麗與才智鮮能兼備。
美女多不
智。
(
德國諺語
)
6. Beauty fades like a flower.
紅顏薄命。
7. Beauty is but skin deep.
美麗只是膚淺的東西。美貌只是外表而已。
8. Beauty is eloquent even when silent.
甚至在靜默的時候，美麗也是口若懸河。
完全停滯不前不如慢慢駛向前。
7. Brave actions never want a trumpet.
英勇的行為永遠不需要吹噓。
8. Business is the salt of life; business and action strengthen the brain.
商務是生命之鹽，商務和行動增強腦力。
利己心是最壞的顧問。自私非上策。
Appearance and Heart
（外表與內心）
1. A clear conscience is like a coat of mail.
平生不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。
2. A fair face may hide a foul heart. (Fair face, foul heart.)
錢包飽滿，心情輕鬆。
6. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
口蜜腹劍。笑裏藏刀。佛口蛇心。
7. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
錢包薄薄，心情沉重。
8. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
平生不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。
花言巧語不能滋潤防風草。口惠而實不至。
13. Fine words dress ill deeds.
巧言藏惡行。好話說盡，壞事做盡。說一套，做一套。
14. Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [Thomas Fuller]
良言本無價，其貴值千金。（富勒）
9. A straight stick is crooked in the water.
直棍水中曲。
10. All are not saints that go to church.
上教堂的人未必個個都是聖人。
11. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
事前一句勝過事後兩句
3. A word is enough to the wise.
智者一點就明
4. A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
一言既出，如箭射出。
5. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行動是知識的卓越果實。
6. Better to sail slowly than not to sail at all.
離眼遠，離心遠。眼不見，心不念。
7. He that fears you present will hate you absent.
在你面前怕你的人，在你背後恨你。
8. If a person is away, his right is away. [Moorish Proverb]
人若不在場，他的權利就會喪失。
小別情更濃。小別勝新婚。
4. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
分離令愛加深，相見使情更濃。
5. Absent in body, but present in spirit.
肉身雖不在，精神卻不死。永垂不朽
6. Far from eye, far from heart.
（不可一概而論。
）
12. All that glitters is not gold.
發亮的不一定全是金子。金玉其外，敗絮其中。虛有其表。
13. Apparel makes the man.
人靠衣裳，馬靠鞍裝。
14. Appearances are deceptive.
外表是靠不住的。
15. Beeபைடு நூலகம் that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
若受歡迎，
則停留過夜；
不受歡迎，
當天就要回
家。
（非洲諺語）
3. Advice when most needed is least heeded.
良言於最需要時最不受重視。忠言逆耳。
4. Advice whispered is worthless.
竊
竊私語的忠告毫無價值可言。
5. An enemy may chance to give good counsel.
缺席者絕對沒有不對，出席者也不會沒有藉口。
16. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
貓兒不在，老鼠做怪。閻王不在，小鬼做怪
17. Who takes a lion when he is absent, fears a mouse present.
趁獅子不在時取而代之,卻怕老鼠的存在
9. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
敵人也可能給人好的忠告。
6. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
憤怒和急迫足以誤大計。小不忍則亂大謀。
7. Come not to counsel uncalled.
人之患在好為人師。
8. Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich.
15. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
口惠而實不至。
17. Hard words break no bones.
惡言傷不到人心。笑罵由他笑罵。
18. He is noble who feels and acts nobly.
顯貴的人總是思想崇高和舉止優雅。
漂亮的面孔可能藏著一顆齷齪的心。