Quality is better than quantity.    質重于量.
Quality matters more than quantity.    質比量重要。
Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.    情人爭爭吵吵，自會言歸于好.
Quick at meal, quick at work.    吃得快，做得快.
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.    手勤腳快，嘴里吃飽.
Quietness is best.    寧靜最好.
Quietude is the crown of life.    安靜是生命的皇冠.
Rain before seven; fine before eleven.    雨過天晴.
Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.    晴日之后有雨水，烏云過去見青天.
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.    船沈鼠先竄.
Read not books alone, but men.    不要光是讀書，還要識人.
Readiness is all.    有備無患.
Reading enriches the mind.    開卷有益。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.    讀書養神，鍛鏈健身.
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.    讀書健腦，運動強身。
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.    博覽群書使人完美無瑕，冥思苦想讓人深刻精邃，論證闡述讓人頭腦清晰.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.    讀書使人淵博，交談使人機敏，寫作使人嚴謹.
Ready money is a ready medicine.    現錢等于成藥.
Real heart lied never.    心誠無謊言。
Reap as (or what) one has sown.    自食其果.
Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.    養兒防老.
Reason binds the man.    理智約束著人.
Reason deceives us often, conscience never.    理性常騙人，良心永不欺.
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.    理智指導聰明人，而且打擊愚蠢漢.
Reason is the guide and light of life.    理智是人生的響導和光輝.
Reason rules all things.    情理管萬事.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.    虛度青春，悔恨無已.
Remember thou are but a man.    記住你自己只不過是一個人.
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.    悔罪雖好，無罪更佳.
Repetition is the mother of knowledge.    反覆學習是知識之源.
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.    無功得名是常事，無過失名也是常事.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.    應該做的決心做，決心做的務必做.
Respect a man, he will do the more.    尊重別人，則別人會更尊重你。
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.    君須自敬，人乃敬之.
Responsibility must be shouldered; you cannot carry it under your arms.    責任必須負在肩上，不能挾在腋下.
Rest breeds rust.    停止須生銹.
Revolutions are not made with rose water.    革命不是繡花.
Riches do not always bring happiness.    富未必永遠帶幸福.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.    財富可以侍候主人，也可以支配主人.
Riches have wings.    財富難保.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.    財富事智者，卻又馭蠢人.
Rivers need a spring.    大河要有源頭.
Roll my log and I'll roll yours.    互相吹噓.
Rome is not built in a day.    冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。
Rome was not built in a (or one) day.    羅馬不是一日建成的.
Rome was not built in a day.    偉業非一日之功。
Run (or Hold) with the hare and hunt (or run) with the hounds.    兩面討好.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.    悲喜互繼，哀樂相續.
Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.    駛船要乘風，風潮不等人.
Salt water and sbsence wash away love.    遠離久別愛情淡.久別情淡？
Satan always finds work for idle hands.    懶漢總會干壞事.
Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.    放虎歸山.
Save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.    能節儉時就節儉，朝陽難照一整天.
Saving is getting.    節約等于收入.
Say not all that you know, believe not all that you hear.    莫道全所知，莫信全所聞.
Say well is good, but de well is better,    說得漂亮固好，做得漂亮更佳.
Saying and doing are two things.    說與做是兩回事.
Saying is one thing and doing another.    言行不一。
Saying is one thing, and doing another.    說是一回事，做是另一回事.
Science is organized knowledge.    科學是系統化的知識.
Score twice before you cut once.    三思而行.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.    神氣的狗也會吃贓布丁的.
Scratch a Russsian, and you('ll) find a Tartar.    文明不能改變本性.
Scratch me and I'll scratch you    朋比為奸.
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.    朋比為奸.
Second thoughts are best.    三思而行，再思可也.
See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.    多看多聽少多嘴，你會太平過日子.
Seeing is believing.    眼見為實.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.    見識多、遭難重，鉆研深是學問的三大支持.
Seek the truth from facts.    實事求是。
Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.    撤熱打鐵.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.    見得少，忘得快.
Self do, self have.    自食其果.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.    人類的偉大，首要的是要有自信.
Self-control is courage under another form.    自我克制是勇氣的另一種形式。
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure.    我們的失敗多數是由于缺乏自信.
Self-praise is no recommendation.    自我吹噓，決不可取.
"Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
"    人不為己，天誅地滅。
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.    只要自重、自覺、自制，人生就可達到至高無上的境地.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.    自信是成功的首要秘訣.
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.    智者當差，不用交代。
Serve somebody with the same sauce.    以其人之道還治其人之身.
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.    修養不深，高談闊論.
Sharp stomachs make short graces.    餓的肚子顧不到體面.
Short accounts make long friends.    帳算清，交情深.
Short acquaintance brings repentance.    淺交生后悔.
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.    年壽短暫，聲譽永存.
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.    謊言是做賊的第一步.
Sickness is everyman's master.    英雄只怕病來磨.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.    疾病能夠感覺到，健康全然不知曉.
Sickness shows us what we are.    疾病使人亮出本來面目.
Silence gives consent.    沈默等于同意.
Silence in times of suffering is the best.    遭到不幸時，沈默是上策.
Silence is learnt by the may misfortunes of life.    沈默是通過生活中的許多不幸而學會的.
Silence is more eloquent than words.    沈默是更有說服力的言詞.
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.    沈默有時是最嚴厲的批評.
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.    沈默的人像靜水一樣，深而難測.
Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.    綢緞要熄滅廚房的火.
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.    真誠－－深刻真摯發自內心的真誠，是真正高尚的人性的一種品質.
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軍隊.
Sleeping is the best cure for waking troubles.    睡眠是良藥，專治醒時愁.
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.    懶惰會磨去才智的鋒芒.
Slow and steady wins the race.    跛鱉千里.
Slow help is no help.    幫忙不及時，等于不幫忙.
Small gains bring great wealth.    小益聚大財，薄利成巨富.
Small ones never differ.    小人之見豈有差異。
Smooth water runs deep.    大智若愚.
So many countries, so many customs.    一個國家有一個國家的風俗.
So many men (or heads) so many minds (or wits).    人多意見也多.
So much is mine as I enjoy.    我所有的就如我享有的這麼多.
Soft (or Fine or Kind) words butter no parsnips.    畫餅充肌.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.    慢工出細活.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.    有些書只要瀏覽一下，有些書要仔細閱讀，有些書要領會和消化.
Some people cannot see the wood for the trees.    有些人見樹不見林。
Some persons do first, think afterwards, and then repent for ever.    有些人做了再思考，從而悔恨終身.
Something is better than nothing.    聊勝于無。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.    有時大得即大失.
Sometimes words hurt more than swords.    惡語有時傷人比刀劍更厲害.
Soon gotten, soon spent.    賺得快，花得快.
Soon learn, soon forgotten.    學得快，忘得快。
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.    學得快，忘得快.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.    早熟早爛.
Soon up, soon down.    升得高，落得快.
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.    早晚真相會大白.
Soorow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.    離別多愁恨，相見盡笑聲.
Sorrow comes unset for.    悲哀來時不需邀.
Sound love is not soon forgotten.    愛深難忘.
Sow nothing, reap nothing.    春不播，秋不收。
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.    惡有惡報.
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.    要說就索性說得一清二楚，說出前每句話要字斟句酌.
Speak less and listen more.    要少說多聽.
Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.    少說失意事，莫夸好運道.
Speak little, do much.    少說多做。
Speak of angels and you will hear their wings.    說到曹操，曹操就到.
Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.    要贊美朋友，莫提及敵人.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.    講話不思考猶如射擊不對準目標.
Speech is silver (or silvern), silence is golden.    雄辯是銀，沈默是金.
Speech is silver, humor is gold.    雄辯是銀，幽默是金。
Speech is silver, silence is gold.    能言是銀，沉默是金。
Speech is the picture of the mind.    言為心聲.
Speech shows what a man is.    言如其人.
Speed is the soldier's asset.    兵貴神速.
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，循序漸進.
Still water run deep.    靜水常深。
Still water runs deep.    大智若愚.
Still waters have deep bottoms.    靜水常深.
Still waters run deep.    大智若愚.靜水流深.
Straight trees have crooked roots.    直樹也有曲根.
Strike the iron while it is hot.    趁熱打鐵。
Strike while the iron is hot.    見機行事.稱熱打鐵.
Strong reasons make strong actions.    理由充足，行動就堅決.
Study sickness while you are well.    居安思危.
Study to be what you wish to seem.    學習可成為你所理想的人物。
Success belongs to the persevering.    堅持到底必獲勝利.堅持就是勝利.
Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.    成功來自于克服困難的斗爭.