经典英语名言

Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。

Rome is not built in a day.
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
军人以服从命令为天职。

One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。



Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是银，沉默是金。

The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
魔鬼有时也会说真话。

The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。

The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。

The greatest talkers are always least doers.
语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。

There is no royal road to learning.
书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。

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

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