Engage with English Proverbs to Elevate Your Essays

1. 11Action speaks louder than words

2. Doing everything is doing nothing 事事都做，一事无成

3. Knowledge is a measure, but practise is the key to it知识是珍宝，而实践是获取它的钥匙。

4. 13Ill news es apace

5. Silence is golden 沉默是金

6. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country不要问你的国家能为你做什么，而要问你能为你的国家做什么。

7. 无风不起浪。Where there's smoke without fire

8. 2The only way to have a friend is to be one 交友的唯一办法就是自己够朋友 3Everything is good when new, but friend when old 东西都是新的好，朋友还是老的亲

9. 自助者天助。God helps those who help themselves

10. 有志者，事竟成。Nothing is impossible to a willing heart /Where there is a will there is a way

11. 23There are only two creatures, who can surmount the pyramids—the eagle and the snail能够翻越金字塔的生物只有两种，一是雄鹰，一是蜗牛

12. A miss is as good as a mile 失之毫厘，谬以千里

13. 机不可失，时不再来。Take time while time is, for time will away

14. 未雨绸缪。Provide for a rainy day

15. 千里之行，始于足下。The longest journey begins with the first step

16. 成功源于勤奋。Industry is the parent of success

17. A rolling stone gathers no moss滚石不聚苔，转行不聚财。

18. 滴水穿石。Little stone fell great oaks

19. 10As the tree，so the fruit

20. 11Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

21. 祸兮福所依，福兮祸所伏。All the Evils to be considered with the Good, that is in them, and with that worse attends them

22. 9An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening 一日之计在于晨

23. The spectator sees most clearly 旁观者清

24. 18There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance最有益的是知识，最有害的是无知 友谊篇

25. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。Noting venture, noting gain

26. 不进则退。Not to advance is to go back

27. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

28. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

29. By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it读书使人充实，交谈使人精明

30. 4Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight 愚人指望明天，智者利用今晚 5Time is money; time is life 时间就是金钱，时间就是生命 6Early birds catch the worms 早起的鸟儿有虫吃

31. 2life without a friend is a life without a sun

32. What is done by night appears by day 若要人不知，除非己莫为

33. 7Always aim for achievement and forget about success——Helen Hayes

34. 12As you sow，so shall you reap

35. 3It is hard to please all

36. 5A sound mind is in a sound body 健康的心理寓于健康的身体。 6A light heart lives long 豁达者长寿

37. 15Facts speak plainer than words

38. A gentleman acts on behalf of an understanding friend,as a woman makes herself beautiful for her lover 士为知己者用，女为说悦己者容。

39. 3Time and tide waits for no man 岁月不待人

40. The greatest artist was once a beginner 最伟大的艺术家也曾是个初学者 8It’s never too late to learn 活到老，学到老 9A good book is a good friend 好书如同挚友

41. 6Beauty will buy no beef

42. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy 只会学习不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻

43. 6Haste makes waste/ Don’t try to run before you can walk 欲速则不达 7Said is easier than done 说来容易做起来难

44. 良药苦口。A good medicine tastes bitter

45. Pride goes before a fall 骄者必败

46. Rome is not built in a day 冰冻三尺非一日之寒

47. 12A road of a thousand miles begins with one step 千里之行始于足下 13He who risks nothing, gains nothing 不入虎穴，焉得虎子

48. 3To live is to learn，to learn is to better live

49. 细节决定成败。Details is the key to success

50. 眼见为实。Seeing is believing

51. 5A good friend is my nearest relation

52. One can’t put back the clock 时钟不能倒转

53. 切不要注意已经做了哪些，而只能去考虑还有哪些有待去做。——居里夫人

54. 8Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明

55. 7The first wealth is health 健康是人生的第一财富

56. 1A friend in need is a friend indeed 患难见真交

57. Actions speak louder than words 事实胜于雄辩。

58. All for one, one for all我为人人，人人为我。

59. A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林

60. 8Waste not，want not

61. 伟业非一日之功/冰冻三尺非一日之寒。Romewas not built in a day

62. 15Where there is a will，there is a way

63. One man's meat is another man's poison.

64. 不经风雨，怎能见彩虹。No cross, no crown

65. Rejoicing in hope, patienting in trabulation从希望中得到快乐，在磨难中保持坚韧。

66. 13While there is life there is hope

67. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest 男人对他的情人最爱，对他的妻子最好，而对他母亲的爱最长久。

68. 7It’s not the gay coat that makes the gentleman

69. Think twice before acting 三思而后行。

70. 6Diligence is the mother of success 勤奋是成功之母

71. Justice has long arms 天网恢恢，疏而不漏

72. Enough is as good as a feast 知足常乐

73. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion 宁为鸡头，不为凤尾。

74. The empty vessels make the greatest sound 满瓶不响，半瓶咣当

75. Strike while the iron is hot 趁热打铁

76. Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise早睡早起身体好。

77. 台上一分钟，台下十年功。One minute on the stage needs ten years practice off stage

78. 君子之交淡如水。A hedge between keeps friendship green

79. You cannot burn the candle at both ends 蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可太分散

80. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst好处着想，坏处准备。

81. 5Don’t put all your eggs in one basket 不要孤注一掷