Quality is better than quantity.    质重于量.
Quality matters more than quantity.    质比量重要。
Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.    情人争争吵吵，自会言归于好.
Quick at meal, quick at work.    吃得快，做得快.
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.    手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱.
Quietness is best.    宁静最好.
Quietude is the crown of life.    安静是生命的皇冠.
Rain before seven; fine before eleven.    雨过天晴.
Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.    晴日之后有雨水，乌云过去见青天.
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.    船沈鼠先窜.
Read not books alone, but men.    不要光是读书，还要识人.
Readiness is all.    有备无患.
Reading enriches the mind.    开卷有益。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.    读书养神，锻链健身.
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.    读书健脑，运动强身。
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.    博览群书使人完美无瑕，冥思苦想让人深刻精邃，论证阐述让人头脑清晰.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.    读书使人渊博，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨.
Ready money is a ready medicine.    现钱等于成药.
Real heart lied never.    心诚无谎言。
Reap as (or what) one has sown.    自食其果.
Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.    养儿防老.
Reason binds the man.    理智约束著人.
Reason deceives us often, conscience never.    理性常骗人，良心永不欺.
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.    理智指导聪明人，而且打击愚蠢汉.
Reason is the guide and light of life.    理智是人生的响导和光辉.
Reason rules all things.    情理管万事.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.    虚度青春，悔恨无已.
Remember thou are but a man.    记住你自己只不过是一个人.
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.    悔罪虽好，无罪更佳.
Repetition is the mother of knowledge.    反覆学习是知识之源.
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.    无功得名是常事，无过失名也是常事.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.    应该做的决心做，决心做的务必做.
Respect a man, he will do the more.    尊重别人，则别人会更尊重你。
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.    君须自敬，人乃敬之.
Responsibility must be shouldered; you cannot carry it under your arms.    责任必须负在肩上，不能挟在腋下.
Rest breeds rust.    停止须生锈.
Revolutions are not made with rose water.    革命不是绣花.
Riches do not always bring happiness.    富未必永远带幸福.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.    财富可以侍候主人，也可以支配主人.
Riches have wings.    财富难保.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.    财富事智者，却又驭蠢人.
Rivers need a spring.    大河要有源头.
Roll my log and I'll roll yours.    互相吹嘘.
Rome is not built in a day.    冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。
Rome was not built in a (or one) day.    罗马不是一日建成的.
Rome was not built in a day.    伟业非一日之功。
Run (or Hold) with the hare and hunt (or run) with the hounds.    两面讨好.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.    悲喜互继，哀乐相续.
Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.    驶船要乘风，风潮不等人.
Salt water and sbsence wash away love.    远离久别爱情淡.久别情淡？
Satan always finds work for idle hands.    懒汉总会干坏事.
Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.    放虎归山.
Save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.    能节俭时就节俭，朝阳难照一整天.
Saving is getting.    节约等于收入.
Say not all that you know, believe not all that you hear.    莫道全所知，莫信全所闻.
Say well is good, but de well is better,    说得漂亮固好，做得漂亮更佳.
Saying and doing are two things.    说与做是两回事.
Saying is one thing and doing another.    言行不一。
Saying is one thing, and doing another.    说是一回事，做是另一回事.
Science is organized knowledge.    科学是系统化的知识.
Score twice before you cut once.    三思而行.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.    神气的狗也会吃赃布丁的.
Scratch a Russsian, and you('ll) find a Tartar.    文明不能改变本性.
Scratch me and I'll scratch you    朋比为奸.
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.    朋比为奸.
Second thoughts are best.    三思而行，再思可也.
See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.    多看多听少多嘴，你会太平过日子.
Seeing is believing.    眼见为实.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.    见识多、遭难重，钻研深是学问的三大支持.
Seek the truth from facts.    实事求是。
Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.    撤热打铁.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.    见得少，忘得快.
Self do, self have.    自食其果.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.    人类的伟大，首要的是要有自信.
Self-control is courage under another form.    自我克制是勇气的另一种形式。
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure.    我们的失败多数是由于缺乏自信.
Self-praise is no recommendation.    自我吹嘘，决不可取.
"Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
"    人不为己，天诛地灭。
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.    只要自重、自觉、自制，人生就可达到至高无上的境地.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.    自信是成功的首要秘诀.
Selt-trust is the essence of heroism.    自信是英雄的本色.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.    智者当差，不用交代。
Serve somebody with the same sauce.    以其人之道还治其人之身.
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.    小人得意，忘乎所以.
Set a thief to catch a thief.    以毒攻毒.
Shallow streams make most din.    修养不深，高谈阔论.
Sharp stomachs make short graces.    饿的肚子顾不到体面.
Short accounts make long friends.    帐算清，交情深.
Short acquaintance brings repentance.    浅交生后悔.
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.    年寿短暂，声誉永存.
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.    谎言是做贼的第一步.
Sickness is everyman's master.    英雄只怕病来磨.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.    疾病能够感觉到，健康全然不知晓.
Sickness shows us what we are.    疾病使人亮出本来面目.
Silence gives consent.    沈默等于同意.
Silence in times of suffering is the best.    遭到不幸时，沈默是上策.
Silence is learnt by the may misfortunes of life.    沈默是通过生活中的许多不幸而学会的.
Silence is more eloquent than words.    沈默是更有说服力的言词.
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.    沈默有时是最严厉的批评.
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.    沈默的人像静水一样，深而难测.
Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.    绸缎要熄灭厨房的火.
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.    真诚－－深刻真挚发自内心的真诚，是真正高尚的人性的一种品质.
Six feet of earth makes all men equal.    在墓穴中人人都平等.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.    技能和信心是不可克服的军队.
Sleeping is the best cure for waking troubles.    睡眠是良药，专治醒时愁.
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.    懒惰会磨去才智的锋芒.
Slow and steady wins the race.    跛鳖千里.
Slow help is no help.    帮忙不及时，等于不帮忙.
Small gains bring great wealth.    小益聚大财，薄利成巨富.
Small ones never differ.    小人之见岂有差异。
Smooth water runs deep.    大智若愚.
So many countries, so many customs.    一个国家有一个国家的风俗.
So many men (or heads) so many minds (or wits).    人多意见也多.
So much is mine as I enjoy.    我所有的就如我享有的这麽多.
Soft (or Fine or Kind) words butter no parsnips.    画饼充肌.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.    慢工出细活.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.    有些书只要浏览一下，有些书要仔细阅读，有些书要领会和消化.
Some people cannot see the wood for the trees.    有些人见树不见林。
Some persons do first, think afterwards, and then repent for ever.    有些人做了再思考，从而悔恨终身.
Something is better than nothing.    聊胜于无。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.    有时大得即大失.
Sometimes words hurt more than swords.    恶语有时伤人比刀剑更厉害.
Soon gotten, soon spent.    赚得快，花得快.
Soon learn, soon forgotten.    学得快，忘得快。
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.    学得快，忘得快.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.    早熟早烂.
Soon up, soon down.    升得高，落得快.
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.    早晚真相会大白.
Soorow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.    离别多愁恨，相见尽笑声.
Sorrow comes unset for.    悲哀来时不需邀.
Sound love is not soon forgotten.    爱深难忘.
Sow nothing, reap nothing.    春不播，秋不收。
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.    恶有恶报.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.    孩子不打不成器.
Speak clearly if you speak at all, Carve every word before you let it fall.    要说就索性说得一清二楚，说出前每句话要字斟句酌.
Speak less and listen more.    要少说多听.
Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.    少说失意事，莫夸好运道.
Speak little, do much.    少说多做。
Speak of angels and you will hear their wings.    说到曹操，曹操就到.
Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.    要赞美朋友，莫提及敌人.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.    讲话不思考犹如射击不对准目标.
Speech is silver (or silvern), silence is golden.    雄辩是银，沈默是金.
Speech is silver, humor is gold.    雄辩是银，幽默是金。
Speech is silver, silence is gold.    能言是银，沉默是金。
Speech is the picture of the mind.    言为心声.
Speech shows what a man is.    言如其人.
Speed is the soldier's asset.    兵贵神速.
Spoil (or Lose) the ship for half penny worth of tar.    因小失大.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.    按部就班，循序渐进.
Still water run deep.    静水常深。
Still water runs deep.    大智若愚.
Still waters have deep bottoms.    静水常深.
Still waters run deep.    大智若愚.静水流深.
Straight trees have crooked roots.    直树也有曲根.
Strike the iron while it is hot.    趁热打铁。
Strike while the iron is hot.    见机行事.称热打铁.
Strong reasons make strong actions.    理由充足，行动就坚决.
Study sickness while you are well.    居安思危.
Study to be what you wish to seem.    学习可成为你所理想的人物。
Success belongs to the persevering.    坚持到底必获胜利.坚持就是胜利.
Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.    成功来自于克服困难的斗争.