雙語散文:許願就是債

通常來說諺語是人民羣衆口頭流傳的習用的固定語句，用簡單通俗的話來反映深刻的道理，它們表達了人們豐富的社會生活經驗，閃耀着人民智慧的光芒。

1. Quietude is the crown of life.

安靜是生命的皇冠。

2. Quality matters more than quanity.

質量比數量重要。

3. Quietness is best.

寧靜最好。

4. Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.

天公總是佑強者。

5. Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

諺語言短簡，得自老經驗。

6. Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.

諺語是一國的思想精華。

7. Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.

諺語是時代的智慧。

8. Promise is debt.

許願就是債，欠了不容賴。

9. Promise little but do much.

少許願，多做事。

10. Praise is not pudding.

恭維不是布丁。

11. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.

討好每個人，人人不討好。

12. People do not lack strength; they lack will.

人們不缺力量，缺的是決心。

13. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

失敗十九次，堅持而不動，待到二十次，大事就成功。

14. Perseverance is vital to success.

不屈不撓是成功之本。

15. Pen and ink is wit's plough.

筆墨是才智之犁。