The leopard cannot change its spots.
本性难移。

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --- or nothing. ( Lady Astor )
生活中的主要危险来自那些想要改变一切或什么也不想改变的人。（阿斯特子爵夫人）

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say ’ Impossible’.
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说’不可能’的。

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。

The more noble
the more humble.
人越高尚，越谦虚。

The more wit
the less courage.
初生牛犊不怕虎。

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
生活中最使人筋疲力尽的事是弄虚作假。

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
唯一真正自由的人是能够拒绝宴会的邀请而不用提出理由的人。

The outsider sees the most of the game.
旁观者清。

The pen is mightier than the sword.
笔能杀人。

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want and if they cannot find them make them. (
Bernard Shaw )
在这个世界上取得成功的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到时，他们就自己创造机会。（萧伯纳）

The pot calls the kettle black.
五十步笑百步。

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。

The roots of education are bitterbut the fruit is sweet.
教育的根是苦的，但其果实是甜的。

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。

The style is the man.
字如其人。

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man’s own dignity without intruding
upon the liberty of others. (F. Bacon)
人的行为准则是，维护自己的尊严，不妨碍他人的自由。（培根）

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. (V. Hugo)
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。（雨果）

The time of life is short;to spend that shortness basely
it would be too long.
人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。

The tongue is not steel
yet it cuts.
人言可畏。

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
(T. Carlyle)
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。（卡莱尔）

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
暴君死了，他的统治就结束了；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。

The unexamined life is not worth living.
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。

The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them. (Montaigne)
生命的价值不在于能活多少天，而在于我们如何使用这些日子。（蒙田）

The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能载舟，亦能覆舟。

The wise man knows he knows nothing
the fool thinks he knows all.
清者自清，浊者自浊。

The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。

The world can be changed by man’s endeavor
and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new;and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them.
人经过努力可以改变世界，这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感，随时准备接受新鲜事物；他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实，解决新问题。

The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。

The world is but a little place
after all.
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。