3. idleness is the root of all evils.懶惰是萬惡之源。
4. industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.節儉和勤奮是幸運的左右手。 -----john. ray 約翰.雷
5. only by working hard can we reap a bumper harvest.只有通過辛勤的勞動才能收穫豐碩的成果。
6. he that will thrive must rise at five.五點起床, 家業興旺。
7. take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.小財注意, 大財自來。
8. if each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city.若家家動手掃清門前, 整個城市就清潔了。
9. national progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice.國家之前進源於個人的勤奮, 奮發, 正直, 正如國家之衰落由於個人的懶惰, 自私, 墮落。
10. the love of economy is the root of all virtue.節約是一切美德的根源。
11. thrift is not only a great virtue, but also a great revenue.節儉不僅是一大美德, 而且是一大財源。
12. put your hand no further than your sleeve will reach.量入為出。
13. waste not, want not.不浪費, 不會窮。
14. who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole house.今日不補溝, 他日必補屋。
15. money is a good servant but a bad master.金錢是個好僕人, 又是個壞主人。 ----- 法國諺語
16. overeating will cause indigestion.貪多嚼不爛。
17. grasp all, lose all.什麼都想要, 什麼都失掉。
18. think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.少想自己欠缺的, 多想自己擁有的。
19. money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.金錢是深不可測的海洋, 能淹沒廉恥, 良心和是非感。
20. preparedness prevents calamity./where there is precaution, there is no danger.有備無患。
13. haste makes waste
a famous saying goes “haste makes waste”, which means that one should do everything step by step. even simple operations can easily be spoiled if we rush to complete them, neglecting important stages in the process. one should make full preparations before beginning any task.
taking a look around, we can find examples too numerous to list. the best illustration might be english study. without a good command of pronunciation, we can never hope to speak in an understandable way. similarly, if we do not learn to spell properly and to acquire a basic grasp of grammar, we will never succeed in writing good compositions.
(或actually, history abounds with examples of haste making waste. a well-known chinese fable goes that a farm tried to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward, only to find that they died soon. another case in point is the so-called great leap forward movement in china in 1950’s and 1960’s. at that time, the chinese people were so eager to develop their economy that they took some improper measures, only to hinder the expansion of economy.)