Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
读书如择友，宜少且宜精。
A book that remains shut is but a block.
书本不常翻，犹如一块砖。
It‘s not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
君子在德不在衣。
Two heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠顶个诸葛亮。
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身重要，教养更重要。
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。
You can‘t make something out of nothing.
巧妇难为无米之炊。
Nothing venture, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Nothing for nothing.
不费力气，一无所得。
Of nothing comes nothing.
无中不能生有。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
不犯错误者一事无成。
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
话不中肯，不如不说。
Nothing succeeds like success.
一事如意，万事顺利。
Nothing stake, nothing draw.
不顶千里浪，哪来万斤鱼。
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
期待比现实更美好。
Nothing is given so freely as advice.
劝人最容易。
Nothing is so certain as the unexpected.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获。
A little of every thing is nothing in the main.
每事浅尝辄止，事事都告无成。
A great ship asks deep waters.
大船要走深水。（蛟龙要在海中游。）
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
节食博士、精心博士、快乐博士，三人都是最好的医生。
He that once deceives is ever suspected.

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