1. Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
生活若无波折险阻，就会过于平淡无奇。
2. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。
3. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
生活是绘画，不是做算术。
4. The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
5. You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
6. Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
7. Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
8. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
9. A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
人最好的朋友是自己的十个手指。
10. Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
只有在日常生活中尽责的人才会在重大时刻尽责。
11. The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。
12. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.(J. Burroughs)
一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。(巴勒斯)
13. A friend without faults will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友是永远找不到的。
14. If you don't aim high you will never hit high.
不立大志，难攀高峰。
15. However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。
16. It is the first step that costs.
万事开头难。
17. All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
18. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
链条的坚固程度取决于它最薄弱的环节。
19. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好!
20. Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.(La Rocheforcauld, French writer)
事情很少有根本做不成的;其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。(法国作家 罗切福考尔德.L.)
21. One needs things to be truly happy living in the world: some thing to do, some one to love, some thing to hope for.
要得到真正的快乐，我们只需拥有三样东西：有想做的事，有值得爱的人，有美丽的梦。
22. Faith will move mountains.
精诚所至，金石为开。
23. A guest should suit the convenience of the host.
客随主便。
24. A letter from home is a priceless treasure.
家书抵万金。
25. All rivers run into the sea.
殊途同归。
26. All time is no time when it is past.
机不可失，时不再来。
27. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医。
28. As heroes think, so thought Bruce.
英雄所见略同。