쉬운 격언을 알아둡시다.
A Proverb; A Maxim
Time flies like an arrow.(세월은 유수같다.)
Make hay while the sun shines.(기회를 잡아라.)
Strike the iron when it is hot.(쇠는 떠거워진 동안에 단련시켜라.)
The tall tree attracts the wind.(모난 돌이 정맞는다.)
Can not see the wood for the tree.(나무는 보고 숲은 못본다.)
Rome is not built in a day.(로마는 하루아침에 이루어 지지 않았다.)
Sound mind in sound body.(건강한 육체에 건강한 정신이 깃든다.)
Many a little makes a mickle.(띄끌모아 태산)
One swallow does not make a summer.
Time and tide wait for no man.(시간은 사람을 기다리지 않는다.)
The pen is mightier than the sword.(펜이 칼보다 강하다.)
The empty cart makes a noise.(빈 수레가 요란하다.)
Deep water runs still.(깊은 강은 조용히 흐른다.)
No pain, no gain.(고통이 없이는 얻는 것도 없다.)
All roads lead to Rome.(모든 길은 로마로 통한다.)
Pick of the crop.(
A flesh in the pen.
Brevity is the soul of the wit.
I think therefore I am.(나는 생각한다 그러므로 존재한다)
Pie in the sky.
Tomorrow is an another day.(내일은 내일의 바람이 분다)
A habit acquired at three will persist to eighty.(세살버릇 여든간다)
Can the leopard change the spot.
I do my best and leave the rest to the hand of the God.(盡人事待天命)
There is the rub.
It is no use crying over the spilt milk.(업질어진 물이다)
The worst democracy is till better the best autocracy.(최선의 독재도 썩은 민주정치만 못하다)
A bolt out of the blue.(청출어람)
The world is the stage and the people are players.(인생은 연극이다)
Do in Rome as Romans do.(로마에 가면 로마법을 따라라)
Blood id thicker than the water.(피는 물보다 진하다)
Every journey must begin with a first step.(천리길도 한걸음부터)
When the cats away, the mice will play.(호랑이가 없으면 토끼가 왕노릇한다)
Imitation is cheaper than innovation.
A good medicine testes bitter.(좋은 약은 입에 쓰다)
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Carrot and stick.(당근과 체찍)
Spare the rod and spoils the child.(매를 아끼면 자식을 망친다)
Rolling stone gathers no moss.(구르는 돌에는 이끼가 끼지 않는다)
An iron hand in a velvet glove.(양두구육)
Darkest before dawn.(어둠이 짙을수록 새벽이 가깝다)
He who ties a knot must untie it.(結者解之)
The darkest place is under the candlestick.(등잔밑이 어둡다)
Burn the candle at both ends.
Putting the cart before the horse.
Every shot told.
Call the shot.
Where there is a will, there is a way.(뜻이 있는 곳에 길이 있다)
Great oaks from a little cone grow.(천리길도 한걸음부터)
Watched pot never boils.
Reap as much as one has sown.
Every fish that escaped appeared greater than it is.(놓친 고기가 크보인다)
Man's happiness lies not so much in wealth as in health.(인간의행복은 부보다는 건강에 있다)
A burnt child fears the fire and a bitten child the dog.
Vows made in storm are forgotten in calm.(어려울 때 한 맹서는 좋은 시절에는 잃어버린다)
Pigs might fly (Sub rise from west.)
The nail that sticks up will be beaten down.
Do not count your chicken before they are hatched.
Catch the bear before you sell the skin.
Sleeping the same bed but have different dreams.(동상이몽)
Great talents mature late.(대기만성)
No river could be clean if it's upstran is turbid.(윗물이 맑아야 아래물이 맑다.)
Make a mountain out of molehill.
Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country.
The saint's a maid quotes Latin.(서당개 삼년이면 풍월을 읊는다.)
Pay the old scoures.
Go for wool and come home shorn.
Went to get rid of wen but gained another instead.
Crews are never whites for washing themselves.
May his soul rest in peace.
Hale and hearty.
Soon to die yet noisiest then ever, the autumn cicadas.
A tip of the ice-berg.(빙산의 일각).
Hobson;s choice.
Cost pearls before swine (Sermon of the Mount.)
You are the salt to the world, if salt becomes tasteless how is it's saltness to be restored (Sermon of the Mt.)
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.(눈에는 눈 이에는 이)
If someone slops you on your right cheek, turn and offer him your left(Sermon of the mount.)
Make a precarious life.
A nouveau riche (A new rich)
The big lie would work as human beings have a limited capacity to fathom deception or a grand scale.
S.P.Q.R. (Small Profit for Quick Return.)
A lot of water has flown under the bridge.
A Nation is born stoic and dies Epicurean.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Roosevelt).
There is no indispensable man (Roosevelt).
No smoking without fire.
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
False security is the greatest enemy.
Misfortune never comes single.
Starting is half the battle.
Contentment is better than riches.
Let sleeping dog lie.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
The early bird catches the worm.
One apple a day keeps doctor away.
Too much is a bad as too little.
No man is a hero to his own valet.
Never negotiate out of fear but never fear to negotiate.
I have nothing to offer you but blood, toils, tears and sweet (Churchill).
Much do about nothing.
Nip in the bud.
Hangar is the best sauce.(시장이 반찬이다.)
Draw water to his own mill.
It is better to be mad with the rest of the world than to be wise alone.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
No vanity, no charity.
Fish and guest smell in three days.
Bird of feather flock together.
A friend in need is a friend.
Failure is but a stepping stone to the success.
It is the result that counts.
Burn the bridge in behind.(강건너 불).
Writing in the wall.
No sooner said than done.
Least said sooner mended.
All is not gold that glitters.
Seeing is believing.(백문이 불여일견)
Like father, like son.(부전자전)
The grain of wheat had to rot in the earth in order to bear the fruit.
Ill weeds grow space.
Ill news runs space.
Danger past, God forgotten.
If you are going to bow, bow low.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Force pays when words fail.
There is always a wayout.
A blessing in disguise.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Aid yourself, and Heaven will aid you.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
There is a way out of every situtation,
however bad.
The Lord's prayer:
Our father in heaven, Your name be hollowed, Your kingdom has come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, Give us this day our daily food, And forgive us the wronged us the wrong we have done as we have forgiven those who wronged us. And do not lead us into temptation, But save us from the evil one, For yours is the kingdom, The power and the glory forever, Aman.
Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened.
The greater pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found by accident.
Do not store for yourself treasure on earth,
where it grows rust and moth eaten and thieves break into to steal it. Store
up treasure in heave, where there is no moth and no rust to spoil it, no thieves
to break in and steal.(Sermon of the Mount.)