格言可以反映不同民族的历史、习俗、宗教、寓言神话、文学艺术等。英文格言 可以看到中西文化的差异。
will make tools of what comes to hand.
聪明的人变的人是聪明人。
A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
A wise man thinks all that he says,a fool says all that he thinks.
聪明人想了就说，愚蠢的人想了就说。
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明的手不做愚蠢的嘴说的话。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
诸葛亮事后很容易做到。
The wise man knows he knows nothing,the fool thinks the knows all.
聪明人自认一无所知，愚蠢人自负。
Fools learn nothing from wise men;but wise men learn much from fools.
愚人不能从智者那里学到任何东西；智者可以从愚人那里学到很多。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人往往比心计短。
A fools heart dances on his lips.
傻瓜的心挂在唇边。
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
傻瓜总以为别人比自己傻。
美德永不老。
Virtue is the only true nobility.
一切都不如美德高。
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德，收获名望。
To be virtuous is to do good.
行善就是有德。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是美德的第一步。
No good building without a good foundation.
没有基础差的好建筑。
One good turn deserves another.
善行应有善报；善行应得到善行的回报。
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以德报怨的人。
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
我不应该记得我有德；人有德，我不能忘记。
If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
假如有人称赞，问自己对不对。
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
免于犯罪，不受诱惑。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡觉。
Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦做好事。
Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶行易学。
No vice goes alone.
恶事不单行。
An evil lesson is soon learned.
坏习惯易染。
A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
保持一件坏事的代价超过十件好事。
They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
A wicked man is his own hell.
坏人作恶，自造地狱。
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
吃得好，喝得好，坏事往往是不可避免的。
He who has done ill once will do it again.
第二次做坏事。
There is no going heaven in a sedan.
坐轿子上天堂，从来没有这样的事。