One should ask a woodcutter if he goes into a mountain, and a fisherman if he goes nearby a riverside.
入山问樵，入水问渔。

Twenty five over a hundred goes to a quarter.
25比100是四分之一。

Use a Book as a bee does a flower
用书如蜜蜂采蜜

A shop dealing with customers courteously does a Booming Business, while a man without a smiling face should not open a shop.
礼貌待客生意好, 人无笑脸休开店。

If a man was born in a stable, that does not make him a horse.
人生马厩仍是人。

It's a, A poem.
这是，一首诗。

Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
封了骑士，就能以一当十？

A man who earns a wage does not make a profit.
挣工资的人是不能发财的。

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
悲随债来。

A Comment on Chinese Poetry from a Layman
门外谈诗词

So does he have a hump A hump and a hairpiece
有驼背么驼背并且顶着假发

A heel on a woman's shoe in the shape of a wineglass.
女鞋上的玻璃酒杯形的鞋跟。

Wow.A model and a poet.
一个模特一个诗人。

Love makes a man compose a poem and it makes a woman compose a dream.
爱恋使男人学会做诗。爱情使女人学会做梦。

A poem lovely as a tree.
美如玉树的诗章。

He is not such a fool but what he can tell a friend from a foe.
彼虽下愚, 尚不至认敌为友。

It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow or a rain forest or a kelp garden or a coral reef.
野化不是试图建造荒地或牧场 或雨林或海藻园或珊瑚礁

Why does a spider have a web and not a house?
为什么蜘蛛有蛛网却没有房子？

a gem of a poem
一首宝石般的小诗

What does a cannibal call a man in a hammock?
食人族把吊床上得人叫做什么?

a phrase with a poetical overtone
带有诗意的短语

A square thing does not fit into a round hole.
牛头不对马嘴。

A man goes to a chemist and asks for a cure for hiccups.
一个男人去问药剂师怎么治打嗝。

Use a book as a bee does flowers.
读书如蜜蜂采花。

A winner goes through a problem, a loser tries to go around it.
胜者知难而进，败者绕道而行。