Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 草率结婚后悔多。
Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent. 借债结婚，后悔一生。
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you . 给儿子娶亲，想在什么时候皆可；把女儿嫁人要在有力量时才行。
Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf. 不痴不聋，不作阿家翁。
Measure another’s corn by one’s own bushel. 以己度人。
Measure for measure. 以牙还牙。
Measure is treasure. 适度是宝。
Measure thrice before you cut once. 三思而后行。
Medicines are not meant to live on. 不能靠药物度日子。
Men are mortal. 人生自古谁无死。
Men, at soome time, are masters of their fates. 人有时是自己命运的主人。
Men know where they were born, not where they shall die. 人能知其生于何地，不能知其死于何方。
Men love to hear well of themselves. 阿谀奉承话，人们皆爱听。
Men may meet but mountains never. 人生何处不相逢。
Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen. 有勇气，有见识，有学问的人易遇，可是真正的君子难逢。
Men too seldom see their own faults. 人们很少能看到自己的过错。
Mere words will not fill a bushel. 空言无补。
Merry is he that hath nought to lose. 人无所失，不亦乐乎。
Merry meet, merry part. 好聚好散。
Method will teach you to win time 方法可教会你赢得时间。
Mickle power makes many enemies. 权高树敌多。
Might is (or makes or overcomes) right. 强权就是公理。
Mills of God grind slowly but sure. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Miracels are to those who believe in them. 妖由人兴。
Mischief has swift wings. 飞来横祸。
Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets. 爱财如命。
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 落难时不择伙伴。
Misery loves company. 同病相怜。
Misery makes strange bedfellows. 患难时不择友。
Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot. 遭灾易，消灾难。
Misfortune is a good teacher. 不幸是良师。
Misfortunes come at night. 灾祸常生于不测。
Misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot. 遭灾易，消灾难。
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly). 祸不单行。
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 经过灾难方知福。
Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends. 患难见友情。
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 不要嘲笑皮匠的黑拇指。
Moderation in all things is the best of rules. 中庸之道是最好的准则。
Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue. 谦逊不仅可增添光彩也可以维护美德。
Modesty is the ornament of woman. 端庄可为妇女增添光彩。
Money answers all things. 金钱是万能的。
Money begets (or breeds or gets) money. 钱产生钱。
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed 债台高筑，愁上心头。
Money burns a hole in his pocket. 钱到袋里留不住。
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway. 金钱会上门，不会留下来，因为是圆的，所以会滚开。
Money can buy the devil himself. 有钱能使鬼推磨。
Money can move even the gods. 有钱能使鬼推磨。
Money doesn’t grow on trees. 钱不是从天上掉下来的。
Money has no smell. 金钱无所谓香臭。
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. 金钱是无底的海洋，荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。
Money is a good servant, but a bad master. 金钱是好的仆役，坏的主人。
Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it. 金钱本身无好坏，要看怎样利用它。
Money is often lost for want of money. 往往由于缺乏金钱而丧失金钱。
Money is something, but no everything. 金钱能买到某物，但不是万能的。
Money is the key that opens all doors. 金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
Money is the root of all evil. 金钱是万恶之源。
Money is the sinews of war. 无钱莫打仗。
Money makes the mare to go. 钱可通神。
Money often unmakes the men who make it. 为富不仁。
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 智力投资，决非虚掷。
Money talks. 有钱能讲话。
More die by food than by famine. 饥馑而死的少，饱食而死的多。
More haste, less speed. 欲速则不达。
More of our worries come from within than from without. 烦恼发乎内者多于发乎外。
More worship the rising than the setting sun. 人都向旭日膜拜，不向夕阳顶礼。
Most things have two handles. 大多数事物总有两种解释。
Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes. 奶水泡出懦弱汉。
Mountains look beautiful from a distance. 远处看山山更美。
Much cry and little wool. 雷声大，雨点小。
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. 当前发生诸种事，大多为人所不知。
Much will have more. 贪得无厌。
Murder will out. 杀人终必败露。
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. 音乐有抚凶暴心灵的魅力。
Music is the eye of the ear. 音乐是耳朵的眼睛。
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. 音乐是医治心灵创伤的妙药。
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 音乐可洗去灵魂中日常生活所沾染的污垢。
My son is my son, till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life. 儿子只有在娶妻前是儿子，女儿则终生是女儿。

Look not for musk in dog’s kennel. 狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。
Losers are always in the wrong. 失败者总是错的。
Losses make us more cautious 损失使人更谨慎。
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. 时间一去不再来，我们常说时间充足，实际。总是不够。
Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever. 失去的财富可由勤奋而恢复，失去的知识可由学习而恢复，失去的健康可由节制或药物而恢复，但失去的时间却一去永不复返。
Love all, trust a few, be false to none. 要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负于任何人。
Love and business teach eloquence. 爱情和买卖可以培养口才。
Love and cough cannot be hid. 爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。
Love and poverty are hard to hide. 爱和穷难隐瞒。
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. 爱情要求忠诚，而忠诚要求坚贞。
Love begets love. 爱爱相生。
Love cannot be forced 爱情不强求。
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。
Love comes by looking. 情人眼里出西施。
Love does much, money does everything (ormore). 爱情做许多事，金钱做任何事。
Love fears no danger. 爱情不怕危险。
Love grows with obstacles. 磨折越多，爱情越深。
Love is a sweet torment. 爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 爱情是甜蜜的虐政，情人心甘情愿地受它的折磨。
Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。爱情使人对缺点视而不见。情人眼里出西施。
Love is full of trouble. 爱情多烦恼。
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. 爱情像月亮，不营即亏。
Love is neither bought nor sold. 爱情不能买卖。
Love is never without jealousy. 爱情莫不忌妒。
Love is not to be found in the market. 爱情在市场上是找不到的。
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. 爱情始甜而终苦。
Love is the mother oflove. 爱产生爱情。
Love is the reward of love. 爱情就是爱的报答。
Love is the touchstone of virtue. 爱情是美德的试金石。
Love is the true price of love. 爱情只能用爱情来报答。
Love is without reason. 爱情是没理智的。
Love laughs at locksmith 春闺锁不住。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 爱情无贵贱，贫负皆有之。
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope. 爱情大处著眼，忌妒吹毛求疵。
Love makes all equal. 恋爱不分贵贱。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。
Love makes obedience easy. 爱情使服从变为易事。
Love makes one fit for any work. 爱情使人适合任何工作。
Love makes the world go round. 爱情使世界运转。
Love me little and love me long. 不求情意浓，但愿情义长。
Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
Love needs no teaching. 爱情无需教导。
Love not at the first look. 切莫一见钟情。
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 情侣靠爱情生活，正像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
Love rules his kingdom without a word. 维持爱情，不用强力。
Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord. 爱的统治不用刀枪，捆绑不用绳索。
Love should not be all on one side. 爱情不应是单方面的。
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 追求而得的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。
Love thy neighbours as thyself. 爱邻如爱己。
Love understands love; it needs no talk. 爱情可以意会，无需言传。
Love will find out the way. 爱情会自找出路。
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge. 爱你的左邻右舍，但不要拆去你们之间的藩篱。
Lying is the first step to the gallows. 说谎是上断头台的第一步。
Lying rides upon debt’s back. 负债的人谎话多。

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. 人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
Life is a shuttle 生活犹如梭子。
Life is but a span. 人生如朝露。
Life is compared to voyage. 人生好比是航海。
Life is half spent before we know what it is. 等到认识人生，已经一半过去了。
Life is long if you know how to use it. 如果懂得好好利用，生命就长了。
Life if made up of little things. 生活是由琐事构成的。
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. 生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的，而不是寿命的长短。
Life is not all beer and skittles. 人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
Life is not so short but there is time enougn for courtesy. 人生虽短，但表示礼貌的时间还是足够的。
Life is short and time is fleeting 人生短暂，光阴易逝。
Life is sweet. 生命是甜美的。
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression. 人生必须永远前进，才不愧为有理智的人。
Life without a friend is death without a witness. 在世无朋友，死后无证人。
Lightly come, lightly go. 易得易失。
Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent. 小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷生不响。
Like attracts like. 物以类聚。
Like author, like book. 书如其人。
Like begets like. 有其父必有其子。
Like cow, like calf. 有其父必有其子。
Like cures like. 以毒攻毒。
Like draws to like. 物以类聚。
Like draws to like the whole world over. 物以类聚，世间皆如此。
Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。
Like knows like. 英雄识英雄。
Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。
Like teacher, like pupil. 有其师必有其徒。
Like tree, like fruit. 有其因必有其果。
Little boats must keep the shores. 小船不能航行远。
Little bodies may have great souls. 小小的躯体会有伟大的心灵。
Littel chips light great fires. 星星之火，可以燎原。
Little pigeons can carry great messages. 少年也可以成大事。
Little pitchers have great (or large) ears. 小孩子耳朵长。
Little strokes fell great oaks. 水滴石穿。
Little thieves are hanged, but great one’s escape. 窃钩者诛，窃国者侯。
Little things amuse little minds. 小人志卑。
Little wealth, little care. 财少寡忧。
Live and learn. 活到老，学到老。
Live and let live. 自己生活，也要让他人生活。
Live to learn and learn to live. 生而学之，学而生之。
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。
Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen. 马未偷走前，厩门先锁上。
Loftiest trees most dread the thunder. 树大招风。
Long absent, soon forgotten. 长久不在的人，很快被忘怀。
Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. 事情耽搁太久就没有人会感谢了。
Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses. 对万事要乐观。
Look before you leap; see before you go. 三思而行。
Lookers-on see more than players. 旁观者清。
Lookers-on see most of the games. 旁观者清。
Look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay. 海底捞月。

Labour is light where love doth pay. 爱情作酬报，劳苦必轻松。
Labour is often the father of pleasure. 勤劳常为快乐之源。
Labour is the capital of our working men. 劳动力是劳动人民的资本。
Lack of knowledge is darker than night. 没有知识比黑夜还要黑。
Late repentance is seldom true. 后悔少有诚意。
Laugh and grow fat. 心宽体胖。
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 你笑，人人陪你笑；你哭，惟独你自哭。
Laugh at your ills, And save doctors’ bills. 生病不忧虑，节省医药费。
Laugh before breakfast you’ll cry before supper. 乐极生悲。
Law makers should not be law breakers. 正人先正己。
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. 法网只捉苍蝇，不捉黄蜂。
Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends. 诉讼将消耗时间、金钱、休息和失去朋友。
Lazy folks take the most pains. 懒汉多吃苦。
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. 学问在得意时是装饰品，失意时是庇护所，年老时是供应品。
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged. 学问是穷人的财富，是富人的荣誉，是青年的帮助，是老年的支持和安慰。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
Learn to creep before you leap. 循序渐进。
Learn to say before you sing. 按部就班。
Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you. 要学会受痛苦而不怨，这是我教你的至要之事。
Learn to walk before you run. 循序渐进。
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 要从别人的愚行中学到聪明。
Learn young, learn fair. 学习趁年轻，既学就学好。
Least said, soonest mended. 多说反坏事。
Lend your money and lose your friend. 赔了夫人又折兵。
Let beggars match with beggars. 龙配龙，凤配凤。
Let bygones be bygones. 既往不昝。
Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage. 纵使困难重重，也不丧失勇气。
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. 饮水思源。
Let every man speak well of the bridge theat carries him over. 饮水思源。
Let every tub stand on its own bottom. 各人管各人自己。
Let not the cobbler go beyond his last. 安分守己。
Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath. 日落之前，平息你的怒火吧。
Let our object be our courtry, our whole country, and nothing but our country. 我们的心目中要有国家，要有整个国家，而且只有我们的国家别如其他。
Let’s cross the bridge when we come to it. 既来之，则安之。
Let sleeping dogs lie. 不要惹事生非。
Let the cobbler stick to his last. 安分守己。
Let the dead bury the dead. 往事不重提。
Let the hands get busy, not the mouth. 手要勤劳，嘴莫多说。
Let things take their course. 听其自然。
Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. 是就是，非就非。
Liars have need of good memories. 谎言者要有好的记忆力。
Liars should have good memories. 说谎的人应有好的记性。
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law. 自由就是做法律许可做的事情的权力。
Liberty is not licence. 自由不是放纵。
Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness. 自由随便，经常堕落到无法无天。
Lie in (oron) the bed one has made. 自作自受。
Lies have short legs. 谎言是站不住脚的。
Life is a battle from cradle to grave. 人生是一场从生到死的战斗。
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. 对善思考者，人生为喜剧；对凭感觉者，人生为悲剧。

Keep thing seven years and you will find a use for it. 备而不用。
Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number. 近朱者赤。
Keeping is harder than winning. 创业不易，守业更难。
Keep some till more come. 更多的到手以前，要保持手里的一点。
Keep your breath to cool your porridge. 少管闲事。
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. 婚前张开眼，婚后半闭月。
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 要多看少说。
Kill the goose that laid the golden egg. 杀鸡取蛋
Kind hearts are more than coronets. 善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。
Kindness always begets kindness. 善有善根。
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. 善良是连结社会的金链。
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand. 善良为语言，聋子能天见哑巴懂心间。
Kindness is the sunshine of social life. 仁慈是社会生活中的阳光。
Kindness will creep where it may not go. 仁慈可进入任何禁地。
Kind words are the music of the world. 善言是世上的音乐。
Kind words are worth much and cost little. 口头方便不费力。
Kind words butter no parsnips. 画饼充饥。
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. 亲帮亲，邻帮邻，无亲无助你倒霉。
Knavery may serve, but honestyis best. 欺诈可能得计，但诚实总是上策。
Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps. 知识的获得是循序渐进而不是突飞猛进的。
Knowledge comes from experience alone. 知识来自经验。
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. 学识可使老年时舒适地退隐和有所寄托；但如果年青时不使它扎下根，老年就得不到它的庇护。
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. 知识是一座宝库，实践是打开宝库的钥匙。
Knowledge is long, life is short. 吾生有涯，而知无涯。
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 知识有两种，一种是我们自己知道的东西，另一种是知道哪里可以找到有关的资料。
Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 知识可以解除恐惧。
Knowledge is the most precious treasure of all things, because it can never be given away, nor stolen nor consumed. 知识是万物中最珍贵的财宝，丢不掉，偷不走，也不会损耗。
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. 知识令人谦虚；无知使人骄傲。
Knowledge will not be aquired without pain and application. 不花力气，不下功夫是得不到知识的。
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. 只有知识而无实践，只能造就半瓢水的艺术家。
Know something like the palm of one’s hand. 熟知其事，了如指掌。
Know something of everything and everything of something. 既要有一般常识，又要有专业知识。
Know thyself. 知道你自己。

Jack of all trades and master of none. 什么都会，样样不精。
Jack of all trades is of no trade. 万事皆通，一无所长。
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail. 你跟驴子开玩笑，将被驴尾打耳光。
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. 是喜是忧难以分。
Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night. 暮去必将朝至，苦尽常会甜来。
Joy put heart into a man. 人逢喜事精神爽。
Joy shared with others are more enjoyed. 与人同乐，其乐无穷。
Jadge not a book by its cover. 人不可貌相。
Judge not according to the appearance. 不要以貌取人。
Judge not of men and things at first sight. 审人论事宜谨慎，一见之下莫断定。
Justice has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。