1. No sweet without sweat

1. No sweetness without effort

2. Observation is the best teacher

2. Observation is the best teacher.

3. My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life

3. My son is my son until he has found him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

4. Time works great changes 时间可以产生巨大的变化

4. Time can bring about great changes.

5. Make hay while the sun shines

5. Make hay while the sun shines. (Literally: "Use the sunny weather to make hay.") This English proverb means to take advantage of favorable conditions while they last.

6. Happy is he who owes nothing

6. Happy is he who owes nothing.

7. Industry is the parent of success

7. Industry is the mother of success.

8. Jack of all trades and master of none

8. Jack of all trades and master of none

9. It is the unforeseen that always happens

9. It is the unforeseen that always happens

10. Like mother, like daughter

10. Like mother, like daughter

11. Lazy cows excrete more urine， lazy people tomorrow more.

11. Lazy cows excrete more urine; lazy people, more tomorrow.

12. Take time by the forelock 把握目前的实际。

12. Take time by the forelock means to grasp the current realities.

13. Time is a file that wears and makes no noise 光阴如锉，细磨无声

13. Time is like a file that wears away and makes no noise.

14. Lookers-on see more than players

14. Spectators see more than the players do.

15. Nothing seek, nothing find

15. Seek nothing, find nothing.

16. 花儿还有重开日，人生没有再少年。

16. Flowers will bloom again, but youth never returns.

17. Time brings the truth to light 时间使真相大白。或时间一到，真理自明。

17. Time reveals the truth to light. Or as time unfolds, the truth becomes apparent.

18. 日子切莫白过，青春切忌虚度。

18. Do not waste a single day, and never squander your youth.

19. Lies have short legs

19. Lies have short legs.

20. There is no time like the present 现在正是时候

20. There is no time like the present — Now is the time.

21. He that will not work shall not eat

21. He who will not work shall not eat.

22. Time cannot be won again 时间一去不再来

22. Time cannot be won back again.

23. He laughs best who laughs last

23. He laughs best who laughs last.

24. Happiness takes no account of time

24. Happiness disregards time.

25. Time lost can not be recalled 光阴一去不复返

25. Time lost can never be regained.

26. Time is the father of truth 时间是真理之父

26. Time is the father of truth. Translation: Time is the father of truth.

27. 花有重开日，人无再少年。

27. Flowers may bloom again, but a youth cannot return.

28. Look before you leap

28. Look before you leap

29. Love is full of trouble

29. Love is fraught with trouble

30. 把握一个今天，胜似两个明天。

30. Seizing one today is better than two tomorrows.

31. Once a man and twice a child

31. Once a man, twice a child

32. What may be done at any time will be done at no time 常将今日推明日，推到后来无踪迹

32. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Commonly today is pushed to tomorrow, and it disappears without a trace in the end.

33. 富贵比于浮云，光阴逾于尺璧。

33. Wealth and status are compared to floating clouds, while time surpasses a jade tablet.

34. Not enough to eat all day， not to give up the merits of Yin.

34. It's not enough to eat all day; one must not give up the merits of Yin.

35. Art lasts forever and time passes quickly.

35. Art endures forever and time flies quickly.

36. 要珍惜时间，别相信命运。

36. Cherish time and don't believe in fate.

37. Let sleeping dogs lie

37. Let sleeping dogs lie

38. One man's fault is other man's lesson

38. One man's fault is another man's lesson.

39. He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first

39. He is not laughed at by those who laugh at themselves first.

40. One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy

40. One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

41. It is hard to please all

41. It is hard to please all

42. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it

42. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.

43. 节气不饶苗，岁月不饶人。

43. The seasons are unforgiving to the seedlings, and time is unforgiving to people.

44. Heaven never helps the man who will not act

44. Heaven never helps a man who will not act.

45. Time and chance reveal all secrets 时间与机会能提示一切秘密

45. Time and chance reveal all secrets - Time and chance bring to light all secrets.

46. Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse

46. Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

47. 白日去如箭，达者惜今阳。

47. Days pass like an arrow, the wise cherish the present sun.