wash your dirty linen at home.
家丑不可外揚。
water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。
wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康，錢再多也沒用。
we know not what is good until we have lost it.
好東西，失去了才明白。
well begun is half done.
好的開始，是成功的一半。
we never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可貴。
the water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能載舟，亦能覆舟。
the wise man knows he knows nothing， the fool thinks he knows all.
清者自清，濁者自濁。
the wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在后。
the world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界如階梯，有人上有人下。
the world is but a little place， after all.
海內(nèi)存知己，天涯若比鄰。
think twice before you do.
三思而后行。
things at the worst will mend.
否極泰來。
time and tide wait for no man.
時不我待。
time cures all things.
時間是醫(yī)治一切創(chuàng)傷的良藥。
two dogs strive for a bone， and a third runs away with it.
鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利。