A friend is never known till a man has need.

　　需要之時方知友。

　　A friend without faults will never be found.

　　沒有十全十美的朋友。

　　‘After you’ is good manners.

　　“您先請”是禮貌。

　　A good beginning is half done.

　　良好的開端是成功的一半。

　　A good beginning makes a good ending.

　　善始者善終。

　　A good book is a good friend.

　　好書如摯友。

　　A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

　　一本好書，相伴一生。

　　A good conscience is a soft pillow.

　　不做虧心事，不怕鬼叫門。

　　A good fame is better than a good face.

　　美名勝過美貌。

　　A good husband makes a good wife.

　　夫善則妻賢。

　　A good medicine tastes bitter.

　　良藥苦口。

　　A good wife health is a man’s best wealth.

　　妻賢身體好是男人最大的財富。

　　Actions speak louder than words.

　　事實勝于雄辯。

　　Adversity leads to prosperity.

　　窮則思變。

　　Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

　　逆境出人才。

　　A fair death honors the whole life.

　　死得其所，流芳百世。

　　A faithful friend is hard to find.

　　知音難覓。

　　A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

　　吃一塹，長一智。

　　A fox may grow gray, but never good.

　　江山易改，本性難移。

　　A friend in need is a friend indeed.

　　患難見真情。

　　A friend is easier lost than found.

　　得朋友難，失朋友易。

　　A great talker is a great liar.

　　說大話者多謊言。

　　A hedge between keeps friendship green.

　　君子之交淡如水。

　　A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

　　戲謔不能化敵為友，只能使人失去朋友。

　　All things are difficult before they are easy.

　　凡事總是由難而易。

　　All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

　　只會用功不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。

　　A man becomes learned by asking questions.

　　不恥下問才能有學問。

　　A man can do no more than he can.

　　凡事都應量力而行。

　　A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.

　　一心不能二用。

　　A man is known by his friends.

　　什么人交什么朋友。

　　A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

　　光說空話不做事，猶如花園光長刺。

　　A man without money is no man at all.

　　一分錢難倒英雄漢。

　　A merry heart goes all the way.

　　心曠神怡，事事順利。

　　A miss is as good as a mile.

　　失之毫厘，差之千里。

　　A mother’s love never changes.

　　母愛永恒。

　　An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

　　一天一蘋果，不用請醫生。

　　A new broom sweeps clean.

　　新官上任三把火。

　　An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

　　以眼還眼，以牙還牙。

　　An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

　　一日之計在于晨。

　　An old dog cannot learn new tricks.

　　老狗學不出新把戲。

　　An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.

　　聰明才智，不如運氣。

　　Easy come, easy go.

　　易得者亦易失。

　　Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

　　心之所愿，無所不成。

　　East or west, home is best.

　　東好西好，還是家里最好。