1. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 相聚愛益切，離別情更深。

2. A burden of one's choice is not felt. 自己選的擔子不嫌重。

3. A burnt child dreads the fire. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。

4. A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蠟燭焚自身，光亮照別人。

5. A cat may look at a king. 貓也有權晉見國王。

6. A cat has nine lives. 貓有九條命。

7. Accidents will happen. 天有不測風云。

8. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 鏈條的堅固程度取決于它最薄弱的環節。

9. A change of work is as good as a rest. 調換一下工作是很好的休息。

10. A cheerful wife is the joy of life. 快樂的妻子是生活的樂事。

11. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 雙鳥在林不如一鳥在手。

12. A beggar's purse is bottomless. 乞丐的錢袋是無底洞。

13. A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 聞其歌知其鳥，聽其言知其人。

14. A bird may be known by its song. 什么鳥唱什么歌。

15. A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. 略有勝于全無。

16. A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world. 坐井觀天。

17. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 秋波送盲，白費癡情。

18. A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. 一本好書今天如此，將來也如此，永不改變。

19. A book that remains shut is but a block. 有書閉卷不閱讀，無異是一塊木頭。

20. A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 借來的斗篷不暖身。

21. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 惡其始者必惡其終。

22. A bad bush is better than the open field. 有勝于無。

23. A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. 吃虧的和解也比勝訴強。

24. A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart. 做賊心虛。

25. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 壞習慣像鮮餡餅，分食要比保存好。

26. A bad padlock invites a picklock. 開門揖盜。

28. A bad thing never dies. 壞事傳千年。

29. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 拙匠常怨工具差(人笨怨刀鈍)。

30. A bargain is a bargain. 達成的協議不可撕毀。