初中一年级的英语谚语大多比较简单，以下列举一些适用于初一学生的英语谚语：
1. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
2. A good beginning is half done. 好的开始是成功的一半。
3. Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者事竟成。
4. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 早睡早起，使人健康、富有和聪明。
5. Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
6. Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。
7. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。9. Rome was not built in a day. 罗马不是一天建成的。10. Time and tide wait for no man. 时间不等人。
