A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 恶其始者必恶其终。 A bad bush is better than the open field. 有胜于无。 A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. 吃亏的和解也比胜诉强。 A bad conscience is a snake in one''s heart. 做贼心虚。 A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 坏习惯像鲜馅饼，分食要比保存好。 A bad padlock invites a picklock. 开门揖盗。 A bad penny always turns up. A bad thing never dies. 坏事传千年。

A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 拙匠常怨工具差（人笨怨刀钝）。 A bargain is a bargain. 达成的协议不可撕毁。 A beggar''s purse is bottomless. 乞丐的钱袋是无底洞。 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。 A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 闻其歌知其鸟，听其言知其人。 A bird may be known by its song. 什么鸟唱什么歌。 A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. 略有胜于全无。

A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it''s the boundary of the world. 坐井观天。 A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 秋波送盲，白费痴情。 A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. 一本好书今天如此，将来也如此，永不改变。 A book that remains shut is but a block. 有书闭卷不阅读，无异是一块木头。All things in their being are good for something. • 天生我才必有用. • Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. • 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书. • Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine • 失败乃成功之母. • For man is man and master of his fate. • 人就是人，是自己命运的主人. • The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates • 混混噩噩的生活不值得过. -- 苏格拉底 • None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus • 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由. • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon • 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯.因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松 • Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin • 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘.-- 罗斯金 • What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot • 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光. -- 乔治 • 埃略特 • Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln