A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善終。——短小精悍的英文時間名言

　　1) Beware beginning.以謹(jǐn)慎開始。

　　2) A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患難見真情。

　　3) Strike the iron while it is hot. 趁熱打鐵。

　　4) It takes two to make a quarrel. 一個巴掌拍不響。

　　5) When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game. 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利。

　　6) single spark can start a prairie fire. 星星之火，可以燎原。

　　7) One's sin will find one out. 壞事終歸要敗露。

　　8) A good name is better than riches. 聲譽(yù)勝于財(cái)富。

　　9) Haste trips over its own heels. 忙易出錯。

　　10) A watched pot never boils. 心急喝不了熱粥。

　　11) The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. 人越偉大，越能克制怒火。

　　12) Speech is the image of actions. 語言是行動的反映。

　　13) Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 明槍易躲，暗箭難防。

　　14) Each man is the architect of his own fate. 每個人都是自己命運(yùn)的建筑師。

　　15) Birds of a feather flock together. 物以類聚，人以群分。

　　16) Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation. 天才在于勤奮，知識在于積累。

　　17) An open enemy is better than a hollow friend. 寧有公開的敵人，不要虛偽的朋友。

　　18) A still tongue makes a wise head. 沉默者有智慧。

　　19) It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. 從崇高到荒謬只有一步之遙。

　　20) Ordinary people think merely of how they will spend time, a man of intellect tries to use it.

　　常人只想如何消磨時間，智者則努力利用時間。