I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why.我生下时啼哭，后来每天的生活说明了为什麽.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading宁为穷汉住搁楼，拥有好书任我读，不愿身居帝王位，纵有好书不爱读.

I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold.我宁愿得到人们的深情至爱，而不愿黄金成雄.

Ideals are like the stars -- we never reach them, but like mariners¹, we chart our course by them.理想好像星星，不能摘到，但我们犹如水手，可借它指引航向.

Idle folks have most labour.懒汉总嫌活太多.

Idle folks lack no excuses.懒汉辩解，何患无词.

Idle young, needy² old.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲.

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.懒惰是行乞的敲门砖，是万恶的根源.

Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).懒惰是万恶之源.

Idleness is the rust³ of the mind.懒惰使脑子生锈.

Idleness rusts⁴ the mind.懒惰使人的头脑迟钝.

If a donkey bray⁵ at you, don't bray at him.傻瓜惹著你，你别跟他缠.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.上当一回头，再多就可耻。

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.如果倒空钱袋，装入脑袋，那就无人能够把钱夺走.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.如果以肯定开始，必将以怀疑告终；如果愿以怀疑开始，必将以肯定告终.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.初试不成功，努力勿懈怠.

If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness, and moderate diet.如果医药不能帮助，那麽注意三件事∶休息，愉快，饮食调和.

If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city (or street).众擎易举.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.注意好品行，自有美名声.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.不正确的事不做，不真实的话不说.

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.人是靠希望活著的.

If matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.重要的并不在于一个人怎样死，而是在于他怎样生.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.不做金钱的主人，就会做金钱的奴隶.

If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.如果没有人爱你，肯定是你自己有问题.

If one desires to succeed in anything, he must pay the price.如果想做成点事，就得付出代价一干.

If the beard were all, the goat might preach.如果有了?需就什麽都行，那麽山羊也可以说教了.