While yearning for excess we lose the necessities.

当我们渴望过多的时候，我们失去了必需品。

Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast.

不打自己孩子的，将来会打自己的乳房。

Who has ever seen tomorrow?

谁曾见过明天?

Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more.

没有尝过的人渴望这样做，但对尝过的人来说，这种渴望更是百倍。

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat.

种大麦的不能收小麦。

Whoever can walk on water is probably made of straw.

能在水上行走的人很可能是用稻草做的。

Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.

没有孩子的人眼里没有光明。

Why would a pool that doesn't have water need so many frogs?

为什么一个没有水的池塘需要这么多青蛙呢?

With one ear he hears, and with the other he dismisses.

一只耳朵听，另一只耳朵不听。

Woe is he who claims to have found happiness.

声称已找到幸福的人有祸了。

Woe to Leili's doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much.

不幸的是，雷利喝的酸奶太少，水太多。

Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don't have two others.

不幸的是，作为一个家庭主妇/家庭主夫，你买了一件东西，却没有另外两件。

Women are just like cats -- they always land on their feet.

女人就像猫一样——她们总是用脚着地。

Work is twice done by the man in a hurry.

匆忙的人完成的工作是双倍的。

You ask the donkey when's Wednesday?

你问驴星期三什么时候?