What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly. 魔鬼背后得到的东西，都在他肚子底下花光了。
Prune the vines on the January moon if you want to fill the casks. 如果你想装满酒桶，就在一月的月亮上修剪葡萄藤。
Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly. 宁可有一点正确，也不要有太多错误。
From a simple spark there will often be produced a great conflagration. 星星之火，可以燎原。
A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard. 一位年轻的医生把教堂墓地弄得坑坑洼洼。
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. 如果你不能用你的行为和艺术取悦所有人，那就取悦少数人吧。取悦许多人是不好的。 -- Friedrich Schiller 弗里德里希·席勒
An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast. 一盎司的财富抵得上一磅的预测。
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. 除非改革者能发明出一种东西，用吸引人的优点代替吸引人的缺点，否则他将会失败。 -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼
It's never what people do that make us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did. 让我们生气的绝不是别人的所作所为;而是我们告诉自己他们做了什么。 -- Marshall Rosenberg 马歇尔·罗森柏格