玉不琢，不成器: C: A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu. /

　　E: An uncut gem goes not sparkle. / The finest diamond must be cut. /

Unpolished pearls never shine.

　　十年樹木，百年樹人: C: It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred

　　years to bring up a generation of good men. / E: It takes three

　　generations to make a gentleman.

　　學(xué)無止境: C: knowledge is infinite / E: progress sometimes uses a comma,

　　but never a full stop.

　　此地?zé)o銀三百兩: never try to prove what nobody doubts.

　　嚴師出高徒: C: Good pupils are to be brought up by strict teachers. / E: It

　　is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.

　　得不償失: give a lark to catch a kite.

　　對癥下藥: a disease known is half the cure.

　　君子之交淡如水: a hedge between keeps friendship green.

　　化干戈為玉帛: bury the hatchet.

　　家和萬事興: he is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his

　　home.

　　江山易改，本性難移: the leopard cannot change its spots.

　　留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒: where there is life, there is hope.

　　狡兔三窟: the mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.

　　舉一反三: half a tale is enough for a wise man.

　　當局者迷，旁觀者清: outsiders see more than insiders. / standers-by see

　　more than gamesters.

　　世上無難事，只怕有心人: dogged does it.

　　笨鳥先飛: C: a slow sparrow should make an early start. / E: a lame

　　traveler should get out betimes.

　　冷暖自知: every man is best known to himself.

　　有情人終成眷屬: every jack has jill.

　　寧為玉碎不為瓦全: better death than dishonor.

　　情人眼里出西施: if jack is in love, he is no judge of jill’s beauty.

　　拳不離手，曲不離口: no day without a line.

　　吃一塹，長一智: by falling we learn to go safely.

　　塞翁失馬: no great loss without some small gain.

　　天無絕人之路: god tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

　　仁者見仁，智者見智: E: the donkey means one thing, and the driver

　　another. / C: the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.

　　師傅領(lǐng)進門，修行在個人: no man is his craft’s master the first day.