FloraBread's Treasure Box

1.      Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

小別勝新婚

2.      Advice when most needed is least heeded.

忠言逆耳

3.      All good thing some to an end.

天下無不散之筵席；花無百日紅

4.      All is well that ends well.

結果佳者乃為佳

5.      All is not gold that glitters.

中看不中用；金玉其外， 敗絮其中

6.      Art is long; life is short.

學術無窮，人生苦短

7.      As you sow, so shall you reap.

種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆

8.      A bad penny always comes back.

惡有惡報

9.      A burnt child dreads the fire.

一朝被蛇咬，蛇年怕草繩

10.  A cat has nine lives.

吉人自有天相

11.  A cat may look at a king.

一視同仁

12.  A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

知足常樂

13.  A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患難見真情

14.  A new broom sweeps clean.

新官上任三把火

15.  A rolling stone gathers no moss.

滾石不生苔；轉業不聚財

16.  A soft answer turned away wrath.

色足以克剛

17.  Beauty is but skin deep.

色即是空；美色僅隔一層皮

18.  Beggars mustn’t be choosers.

飢不擇食

19.  Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

    =Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.

      寧為雞首，不為牛後

20.  Better bend than break.

委曲求全；與其挺直而斷，不如彎曲保全

21.  Better late than never.

寧遲不缺；只要開始，雖晚不遲

22.  Birds of a feather flock together.

物以類聚

23.  Business is business.

公事公辦

24.  Care killed a cat.

勞神喪命；憂能傷身

25.  Clothes make the man.

人要衣裝，佛要金裝

26.  Constant dripping wears away the stone.

滴水能穿石

27.  Cross the bridge when you come to it.

橋到船頭自然直

28.  Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

從易處著手

29.  Cut your coat according to your cloth.

量入為出

30.  Deeds, not words, are needed.
行動勝於空談

31.  Diamond cuts diamond.

      強中自有強中手

32.  Distant kinsmen mean less then close neighbors.

遠親不如近鄰

33.  Do nothing you would wish to conceal.

若要人不知，除非己莫為

34.  Do as you would be done by.

己所欲，施於人

35.  Do in Rome as the Romans do.

入境隨俗

36.  Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

勿打如意算盤

37.  Don’t kick against the pricks.

不要不自量力；勿以螳臂擋車

38.  Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.

勿小題大作

39.  Don’t meet trouble halfway.

勿杞人憂天

40.  Don’t put cart before the horse.

不要本末倒置

41.  Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter.

勿自砸飯碗

42.  Don’t wash your dirty linen in public.

家醜不可外揚

43.  Dogs do not eat dogs.

同類不相殘

44.  Easy come, easy go.

僥倖之財難久留

45.  Even Homer sometimes nods.

智者千慮，必有一失

46.  Every cloud has a silver lining.

禍中有福；否極泰來

47.  Every rose has its thorn.

沒有完全的幸福；快樂之中必有痛苦

48.  Extremes meet.

物極必反

49.  Faith can move mountains.

有志竟成

50.  Fine words butter no parsnip.

光說不練沒有用



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