英语写作的常用谚语
Don''t count your chicken before they are hatched. 不要过早乐观。
Don''t climb a tree to look for fish. 勿缘木求鱼。
Don''t cross the bridge till you get to it. 不要杞人忧天。
Don''t fly till you wings are feathered. 羽毛未丰不要飞。
Don''t cry out before you are hurt. 还没受苦，就别叫苦。
Don''t halloo till you are out of the wood. 没有脱离危险不要先欢呼。
Don''t have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain. 切莫临时抱佛脚。
Don''t keep all your eggs in one basketball.勿孤注一掷。
Don''t put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 今日事，今日毕。
Don''t speak all you know, but know all you speak. 不要尽言所知，而要尽知所言。
Don''t teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 休要班门弄斧。
Don''t throw out your dirty water before you get in fresh. 清水未打来，赃水莫倒掉。
Don''t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自寻烦恼。
Don''t whistle until you are out of the wood. 没有脱离险境，不要过早高兴。
Do one''s level best. 尽力而为。
Dot the i''s and cross the t''s. 一点一划，循规蹈矩。
Doubt is the key of knowledge. 怀疑乃知识的钥匙。
Do well is better than say well. 说得好不如做得好。
Downy lips make thoughtless slips. 嘴上没毛，办事不牢。
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed. 事未齐备，切莫妄动。
Draw water with a sieve. 竹篮子打水一场空。
Dream are lies. 梦不足信。
Dreams go by ￥contraries. 梦想总与现实相反。
Every dog is a lion at home. 夜郎自大。
Every dog is valiant at his won door. 狗在家门前条条都凶悍。
Every door may be shut but death''s door. 除了死门外，每门都可关。
Every extremity is a fault. 万事过分都差误。
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy. 蠢人也能找出聪明人无法弥补的岔子来的。
Every heart has its own sorrow. 人人都有伤心处。
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. 每疋马认为自己驮的袋子重。
Every Jack has his Jill. 有情人终成眷属。
Every little makes a mickle. 积少成多。
Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object. 情人眼里出西施。
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. 聪明一世，糊涂一时。
Every man has his faults. 人孰无过。
Every man has his hobby-horse. 人各有所好。
Every man has his liking. 人各有所好。
Every man has his weak side. 人人都有自己的弱点。
Every man is best know to himself. 自己最了解自己。
Every man has the defects of his qualities. 一个人的好品质上也有不足之处。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 每个人都是他自己命运的建诛师。
Every man is the master of his own fortune. 每个人都是他自己的命运的主宰。
Every man is the son of his own works. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Every man thinks his own geese swans. 每个人都以为自己的东西了不起。
Every medal has its reverse. 事物都有它的反面。
Every mother''s child is handsome. 老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everyone is dissatisfied with his own fortune. 人对自己的命运总不感满足。
Every one''s faults are not written in their foreheads. 知人知面不知心。
Fast bind, fast find. 保存得好，东西好找。
Fasting comes after feasting. 今日有酒今日醉，明日无钱不揭锅。
Fat hens lay few eggs. 肥鸡不下蛋。
Faults are thick where love is thin. 一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear is often greater than the danger. 杞人忧天。
Fear not the future; weep not for the past. 不要为未来担忧，不要为过去悲泣。
Feed a cold and starve a fever. 伤风时宜吃，发热时宜饿。
Feed a pig and you''ll have a hog. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Feed by measure and defy physician. 饮食有节制，医生无用处。
Few words are best. 少说为妙。
Few words, many deeds. 少说话，多做事。
Fine clothes make the man. 人要衣装。
Fine feathers do not make fine birds. 人不可貌相。
Fine feathers make fine birds. 人要衣装，佛要金装。
Fine words butter no parsnips. 画饼充饥。
Fine words dress ill deeds. 漂亮的言词可以掩饰恶劣的`行为。
Finished labours are pleasant. 大功告成，好不高兴。
Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters. 水火是忠仆，造灾成元凶。
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men. 烈火显真金，逆境识英雄。
Fire that''s closest kept burns most of all. 关得最紧的火，燃烧得最炽烈。
Fire, water, and money are good servants, but bad masters. 水火金钱是忠仆，使用不当是祸首。
First catch your hare, then cook him. 不要谋之过早。
First come, first served. 先来先卖。
First impressions are most lasting. 最初的印象最为持久。
Good to begin well, better to end well. 善始好，善终更好。
Good watch prevents misfortune. 有备无患。
Good wine needs no bush. 酒好客自来。
Good wine needs no cries. 好酒无需叫卖。
Good words and ill deeds decieve wise men and fools. 话好行为劣，欺骗智和愚。
Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. 光说好话而不见行动，一文不值。
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. 搬事弄非者，必是撒谎人。
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. 早睡早起。
Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company. 一人独处慎于思，与人相处慎于言。
Grain by grain and hen fills her belly. 一粒一粒啄米，母鸡填饱肚皮。
Grasp all, lose all. 贪多必失。
Grasp the nettle and it won''t sting you. 困难像弹簧，你硬它就软。
Grasp the shadow and let go the substance. 舍本逐末。
Grasp the thistle firmly. 毅然处理困难局面。
Great barkers are no biters. 吠犬不咬。
Great boast, small roast. 说得天花乱坠，成事微乎其微。
Great designs require great consideration. 宏伟的计划须要慎重考虑。
Greatest genius often lies concealed. 大智若愚。
Great hopes make great man. 大希望造就大人物。
Great men are not always wise. 伟大的人物未必总是英明的。
Great men have great faults. 伟人也会铸大错。
Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
Great oaks from little acorns grow. 万丈高楼平地起。
He lives long that lives well. 活得好等于活得长。
He lives twice who lives well. 生活得好的等于生活了两次。
He may well be contented who need neither borrow nor flatter. 一个既不用借债又不用奉承人的人，可以称得上心满意足。
He most lives who lives most for others. 活著对别人贡献最多的人，活得最有意义。
He must needs go whom the devil drives. 势在必行。
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin. 身不由己，只得从命。
He preaches best who lives best. 言教不如身教。
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims ignorance. 夸耀知识实乃无知。
He that cannot ask cannot live. 不会求者不会生。
He that climbs high falls heavily. 爬得高，跌得重。
He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it. 做贼心虚。
He that converses not knows nothing. 不和人交谈的人一无所知。
He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me. 受骗一次，别人可耻;受骗二次，自己该死。
He that doth lend, doth lose his friend. 失友都因借钱起。
He that doth most at once doth least. 想一次做完什么事，结果一件也做不完。
He that doth what he will doth not what he ought. 为其所欲为者不为其所当为。
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. 今天跌倒的人也许明天会站起来。
He that fears death lives not. 怕死者活不了。