英语谚语指流传于英国和美国的比较简练而且言简意赅的话语。
流传于民间口语中的谚语，伴随着文字的产生，开始出现在各种文学作品和文化典籍中。英语谚语有一部分来自书面文献，主要出自希腊罗马神话、寓言故事、莎士比亚戏剧以及一些名家作品中。这些源自文化典籍的“雅谚”，有些是在民间口语说法的基础上提炼打磨而成，而有些则属独创，有着鲜明的文化色彩、语体特色和教育警策作用。
英语谚语以其令人们熟知的形象和比喻体现了人们世代积累的经验和形成的价值观，它们作为社会共享的口头文学的袖珍版本，被成百上千次地引用，成为说服他人的论据,并用以指导日常生活。
1. Years bring wisdom.年长智也增。
2. Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don't worry; today is here, use it.昨天已经消逝，把它忘掉;明天还未来到，不必烦恼;今天就在眼前，把它用好。
3. Yesterday will not be called again.光阴一去不复返。
4. You (or One) cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.粗瓷碗雕不出细花来。
5. You are the greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.如果你是胆小鬼，你就是自己最大的敌人;如果你是勇敢者，你就是自己最好的朋友。
6. You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by striking.铁热时，你能做的不止是锤打，而锤打可使铁热。
7. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.你可以一直愚弄一些人，甚至可以在某个时期愚弄所有的人;但不能一直愚弄所有的人。
8. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.马到河边不喝水，逼马低头亦枉然。(不要逼人做他不愿做的事)
9. You cannot clap with one hand.孤掌难鸣。
10. You cannot flay the same ox twice.一头牛不能剥两次皮。
11. You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.一日之中不可能有两个上午。
12. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.人不可貌相。
13. You cannot make a crab walk straight.江山易改，本性难移。
14. You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.你不可能出售乳牛，同时又要喝牛奶。
15. You can't eat your cake and have it.不能既要吃饼，又要把饼保存。
16. You can't make bricks without straw.没有稻草，制砖难搞。
17. You can't make omelets (or omeletts) without breaking eggs.有失才有得。
18. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.你虽无老山羊，却出卖小山羊。
19. You make the failure complete when you stop strying.不再努力之时，就是完全失败之日。
20. You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep.你可以迫人闭眼，但不能使他睡觉。
21. You may go farther and fare worse.一动不如一静。
22. You may know the horse by his harness.欲知马如何，可看套马索。
23. You must not pledge your own health.切不可把健康作孤注一掷。
24. You must reap what you have sown.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
25. You never know what you can do till you try.事非经过不知难。
26. You roll my log and I'll roll yours.互相吹嘘。
27. Young man may die but old men must die.年轻人可能会死，老年人难免不亡。
28. Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.青年冒失莽撞;成年发奋图强;老年遗憾懊丧。
29. Youth is life's seed-time.青年时代是人生的播种期。
30. Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.青年时期对国家和个人都是希望、创业和精力充沛的时期。
31. Youth looks forward and age backward.青年人向前看，老年人向后看。
32. Youth means limitless possibilities.年轻意味着无限希望。
33.You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗。
34.You cannot eat your cake and have it.鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。
35.You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.强扭的瓜不甜。
1.There is no rose without a thorn.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。世上没有十全的幸福。
2.An old dog will learn no new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。老顽固不能学新事物。
3.A good dog deserves a good bone.
好狗应该得好骨头。 有功者受奖。
4.the children from well-fed family.
膏粱子弟
5.pour water off a steep roof(operate from a strategically advantageous position)
高屋建筑
6.Bad workmen often blame their tools.
拙匠常怪工具差。(不会撑船怪河弯)。
7.He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
己不正不正人(笑别人驼背的人得自己首先把身子挺直)
you should not cast the first stone.欲责他人，先思己过
8.It's a long lane that has no turning.
路必有弯。(事必有变)。(瓦片也有翻身日)。
9.Onw swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。
10.No smoke without fire.
无火不起烟。(无风不起浪)。
11.Ill news comes apace.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。
12.He sho keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
13.Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
山中无老虎，猴子称大王。
14.Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
15.Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
16.Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
17.Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者，事竟成。
18.The days of our years are three-score years and ten.
人生七十古来稀。
19.the apple of the eye.
掌上明珠。
20.hide one's light under a bushel.
不露锋芒。
21.new wine in old bottles.
旧瓶装新酒。
22.a dead dog.
废物或无价值之物。
23.eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
24.between the devil and the deep sea.
进退两难 进退维谷。
25.escape by the skin of one's teeeth.
死里逃生。 幸免于死。
26.hole and corner.
偷偷摸摸。 鬼鬼祟祟。
27.a broken reed.
压伤的苇杖。 不能依靠的东西或人。
28.entertain an angel unawares.
有眼不识泰山。
29.much cry and little wool.
雷声大，雨点小。
30.a lion in the way.
拦路虎。
31.everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
32.kick against the pricks.
以卵击石。 螳臂当车。
33.a fly in the ointment.
一只老鼠坏了一锅汤。
34.no respecter of persons.
一视同仁。
35.wash one's hands of a thing.
洗手不干。 与某事无关。
36.cast pearls before swine.
对牛弹琴。 明珠暗投。
37.the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
心有余而力不足。
38.separate the sheep from the goats.
分辨良莠。
39.in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
聪明保险的办法是向大量谋士求计。
40.all the rivers run into the sea;yet the sea is not full.
百川归海而海不盈。
41.for we brought nothing into whis world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
因为我们没带什么到世界上来，也不能带什么去。
42.bay the moon.
干徒劳无益的事。
43.what's done is done.
事情干了就算了。
44.murder will out.(truth will come to light.)
纸包不住火。真相终将大白。
45.strange bedfellows.
同床异梦。
46.be hoist with one's own petard .
作法自毙。作茧自缚。
47.to paint the lily.
画蛇添足。实在是浪费而可笑的事。
48.much ado about nothing.
无事生非。
49.love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。 情人眼里出西施。
1、宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
2、要想求知，就得吃苦。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
3、杀鸡取卵。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
4、覆水难收。
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
5、脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
6、天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Justice has long arms.
7、门门精通，样样稀松。
Jack of all trades and master of none.
8、天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
9、十年树木，百年树人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
10、坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
11、朋友不能阿谀奉承。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
12、活到老，学到老。
It is never too old to learn.
13、事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
14、人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Judge not from appearances.
15、创业容易守业难。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
16、勤奋是成功之母。
Industry is the parent of success.
17、耳朵发烧，()有人念叨。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
18、挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
19、不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
20、不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It never rains but it pours.
21、人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
22、众口难调。
It is hard to please all.
23、万事开头难。
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
1、Paddle your own canoe.
自立更生，自食其力。
2、Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
好了伤疤忘了痛。
3、Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
饶了坏人便伤了好人。
4、Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。
5、Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.
忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。
6、Patience is a plaster for all sores.
忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。
7、Patience is a virtue.
忍耐是一种美德。
8、Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。
9、Patience is the best remedy or medicine。
忍耐是最好的药物。
10、Patience, time, and money overcome everything.
耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。
11、Pay somebody back in his own coin.
一报还一报。
12、Peace on earth and good will towards men.
愿世界得太平，人间持善意。
13、Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
居安思危，此乃万全之策。
14、Pen and ink is wit's plough.
笔墨是才智之犁。
15、Penny and penny laid up will be many.
积少成多。
16、Penny wise and pound foolish.
小事聪明，大事糊涂。
17、People do not lack strength; they lack will.
人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。
18、Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。
19、Perseverance is vital to success.
不屈不挠是成功之本。
20、Pitchers/Walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
21、Pity is akin to love.
怜悯近乎爱情。
22、Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears.
知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。
23、Pleasant hours fly fast.
欢乐的时间过得快。
24、Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
讨好每个人，人人不讨好。
25、Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
乐中必有苦。
26、Plenty is no plague.
富裕绝非灾祸。
27、Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。
28、Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。
29、Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。
30、Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.
文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。
31、Poor men's words have little weight.
人微言轻。
32、Poverty breeds strife.
贫穷引起斗争。
33、Poverty is apain, but no disgrace.
贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。
34、Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。
35、Poverty is no sin.
贫穷不是罪恶。
36、Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。
37、Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。
38、Poverty is the mother of all arts.
贫困乃一切艺术之源。
39、Poverty is the mother of health.
缺乏是健康之母。
40、Poverty is the reward of idleness.
贫穷是游手好闲的报应。
41、Poverty is the root of all evils.
穷困是万恶之源。
42、Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
老而贫穷，负担沈重。
43、Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies.
贫困才能显出敌和友。
44、Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友。
45、Practice is better than precept.
身教胜于言教。
46、Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
47、Practice what you preach.
言必行。
48、Praise is not pudding.
恭维不是布丁。
49、Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。
50、Praise no man till he is dead.
盖棺论定。
51、Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach.
说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。
52、Prepare for a rain day.
未雨绸缪。
53、Prevention is better than cure.
预防胜于治疗。
54、Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。
55、Pride apes humility.
大巧若拙。
56、Pride goes before a fall（or destruction）。
骄兵必败。
57、Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.
骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。
58、Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能披着老一套的外衣出现。
59、Pride must be pinched.
骄傲必须收敛。
60、Pride will have a fall.
骄者必败。
61、Procrastination is the thief of time.
拖延即浪费时间。
62、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。
63、Promise is debt.
许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。
64、Promise little but do much.
少许愿，多做事。
65、Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.
顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。
66、Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries them.
顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。
67、Prove thy friends ere thou have need.
需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。
68、Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
谚语言短简，得自老经验。
69、Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
谚语是一国的思想精华。
70、Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.
谚语是时代的智慧。
71、Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。
72、Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.
天公总是佑强者。
73、Punctuality is the soul of business.
严守时间是办事情的重要原则。
74、Purpose supposes foresight.
深谋远虑。
75、Put one's shoulder to the wheel.
出一把力。
76、Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
少管闲事。
77、Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。()
Look before you leap. First think, then act.三思而后行。
All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。
Art is long, but life is short. 人生有限，学问无涯。
No pains, no gains.不劳则无获。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try. 世上无难事，只要肯登攀。
Where there is life, there is hope. 生命不息，希望常在。
An idle youth, a needy age. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
We must not lie down, and cry, 'God help us.' 求神不如求己。
A plant may produce new flowers; man is young but once. 花有重开日，人无再少年。
Stick to it, and you’ll succeed. 只要人有恒，万事都能成。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 早睡早起，富裕、聪明、身体好。
A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口。
It is good to learn at another man’s cost.前车之鉴。
Keeping is harder than winning. 创业不易，守业更难。
Let’s cross the bridge when we come to it.船到桥头自然直。
More haste, less speed.欲速则不达。
It is never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢，犹为未晚。
Light come, light go.来得容易，去得快。
Time is money.时间就是金钱。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真交。
Great hopes make great man. 远大的希望，造就伟大的人物。
After a storm comes a calm. 雨过天晴。
Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者，事竟成。
Well begun is half done. 好的开端是成功的一半。
East, west, home is best. 金窝、银窝，不如自己的草窝。
There is no royal road to learning. 学无坦途。
God helps those who help themselves. 自助者，天助之。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 明日待明日，明日不再来。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只工作，不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
Diligence is the mother of success. 勤奋是成功之母。
It never rains but it pours.祸不单行。
In doing we learn.经一事，长一智。
Easier said than done. 说起来容易做起来难。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 一分预防胜似十分治疗。
Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left. 勤勉是幸运的右手，节约是幸运的左手。
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. 天才一分来自灵感，九十九分来自勤奋。
Truth is the daughter of time. 时间见真理。
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. 积少自然成多。
No man is wise at all times. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.今天能做的事绝不要拖到明天。
Live and learn.活到老，学到老。
Kill two birds with one stone.一石双鸟。
He who laughs last laughs best. 谁笑在最后，谁笑得最好。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. 勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
United we stand, divided we fall. 合即立，分即垮。
1.a dead dog.
废物或无价值之物。
2.a broken reed.
压伤的苇杖。 不能依靠的东西或人。
3.A good dog deserves a good bone.
好狗应该得好骨头。 有功者受奖。
4.Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
山中无老虎，猴子称大王。
5.a dog in the manger.
占着茅坑不拉屎。在其位不谋其政。
6.An old dog will learn no new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。老顽固不能学新事物。
7.a lion in the way.
拦路虎。
8.a fly in the ointment.
一只老鼠坏了一锅汤。
9.pour water off a steep roof(operate from a strategically advantageous position)
高屋建筑
10.Bad workmen often blame their tools.
拙匠常怪工具差。(不会撑船怪河弯)。
11.He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
己不正不正人(笑别人驼背的人得自己首先把身子挺直)
12.you should not cast the first stone.
欲责他人，先思己过
13.It's a long lane that has no turning.
路必有弯。(事必有变)。(瓦片也有翻身日)。
14.On swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。
15.No smoke without fire.
无火不起烟。(无风不起浪)。
16.Ill news comes apace.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。
17.He sho keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
18.Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
19.Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
20.hide one's light under a bushel.
不露锋芒。
21.new wine in old bottles.
旧瓶装新酒。
22.eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
23.between the devil and the deep sea.
进退两难 进退维谷。
24.escape by the skin of one's teeeth.
死里逃生。 幸免于死。
25.hole and corner.
偷偷摸摸。 鬼鬼祟祟。
26.entertain an angel unawares.
有眼不识泰山。
27.much cry and little wool.
雷声大，雨点小。
28.everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
29.kick against the pricks.
以卵击石。 螳臂当车。
30.no respecter of persons.
一视同仁。
31.wash one's hands of a thing.
洗手不干。 与某事无关。
32.cast pearls before swine.
对牛弹琴。 明珠暗投。
33.the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
心有余而力不足。
34.separate the sheep from the goats.
分辨良莠。
35.in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
聪明保险的办法是向大量谋士求计。
36.all the rivers run into the sea;yet the sea is not full.
百川归海而海不盈。
37.for we brought nothing into whis world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
因为我们没带什么到世界上来，也不能带什么去。
38.bay the moon.
干徒劳无益的事。
39.what's done is done.
事情干了就算了。
40.murder will out.(truth will come to light.)
纸包不住火。真相终将大白。
41.strange bedfellows.
同床异梦。
42.be hoist with one's own petard .
作法自毙。作茧自缚。
43.to paint the lily.
画蛇添足。实在是浪费而可笑的事。
44.much ado about nothing.
无事生非。
45.love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。 情人眼里出西施。
46.Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
47.Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者，事竟成。
48.The days of our years are three-score years and ten.
人生七十古来稀。
49.the apple of the eye.
掌上明珠。
50.There is no rose without a thorn.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。世上没有十全的幸福。
【英语谚语大全带汉语】
Doing is better than saying.
行胜于言。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人;爱叫的狗很少咬人;善吠的狗很少咬人;
Bad news has wings.
坏消息总是不胫而走,坏事传千里。
As the tree, so the fruit.
长什么树,结什么果。
An idle youth, a needy age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲
A good wife makes a good husband.
有好妻子就有好丈夫。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口,忠言逆耳。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜于美貌。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事,不怕鬼叫门。
A good conscience is a continual feast.
白天不做亏心事,夜半敲门心不惊
A good beginning makes a good ending.
良好的开端就是成功的一半。 善始者善终
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。
A constant guest is never welcome.
久住非佳宾,常来不欢迎。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
一鸟在手，胜似二鸟在林
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怨工具差(人笨怨刀钝)
Ill news travels fast.
坏事传千里。
From saving comes having.
富有来自节约。
No cross, no crown.
不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难之交才是真朋友
He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得越高,摔得越重。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
实践出真知。
East or west, home is best.
在家千日好，出门时时难。
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自寻烦恼。
