事业与家庭
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
一个男人最大的财富就是爱妻和健康。
——Fuller
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.
幸福的家庭都是相似的；而不幸的家庭各各不同。
——Leo Tolstoy
Love makes the world go round.
爱使世界转动。——Charles Dickens
Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created.
幸福婚姻并不是自然而然就有的，它需要努力去创造。
——W.A.Peterson
A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmaster.
一位好母亲抵得上一百个教师。
——George Herbert
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of incidents as disasters.
成功的婚姻的秘诀在于：把大灾难看成小事故，而不要把小事故看成大灾难。
——Harold Nicolson
Love is a sweet torment.
爱是甜蜜的折磨。——Draxe
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who find peace in his home.
无论是国王还是农夫，只要家庭和睦，他便是最幸福的人。
——Goethe
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
生活就像个洋葱：你只能一次剥开一层，有时还会流泪。
——Garl Sandburg
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
只要有无限的热情，一个人几乎在任何事情上都能取得成功。
——Charles M.Schwab
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
机会常常是你第一次没有注意到的东西。
——Catherine Deneuve
You can't expect to make a place in the sun for yourself if you keep taking refuge under the family tree.
如果你总是躺在家庭的大树下，别想在阳光中为自己找到一个位置。
——Claude McDonald
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
我们所预料的事情很少发生，我们最始料不及的事情却往往发生了。
——Benjamin Disraeli
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有那些有耐心将小事做好的人才能掌握轻而易举完成难事的技巧。
——Friedrich Schiller
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
对于那些害怕危险的人，危险无处不在。
——G.B.Shaw
If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
如果你没法将孩子拥在怀里，那就在心里想着他们吧。
——Mother Clarahale
教育与成长
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
勇敢永远都不会过时。
——W.M.Thackery
Better do a little well, than a great deal badly.
宁可做得少而精，不要做得多而糟。
——Socrates
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
从一个儿童教育的开始，他就应体验到发现的快乐。
——A.N.Whitehead
Youth is more courageous than age because it knows less. Age is wiser than youth because it knows more.
青年人比老年人勇气大，因为他们知道的比较少。老年人比青年人明智，因为他们知道的较多。
——W.E.B.DuBois
For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.
对许多人来说，生命中最长的一英里就是从依赖到独立之间的距离。
——Carla B.James
Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like.
只有使一个人看清自己，他才能进步。
——Chekhow
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
生活的价值不在于生命的长短，而在于我们是怎样度过的。
——Montaigne
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
教育就是要使人具备一种能力，可以听到任何话都不动怒或丧失自信。
——Robert Frost
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
能够以自己的方式度过一生，这是唯一的成功
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important which he gives himself.
每个人都接受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。
——E.Gibbon
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
教育之树根部是苦的，但其果实是甜蜜的。
——Aristotle
Education begins its work while the first breath of the child.
当婴儿呱呱坠地时，人生教育就开始了。
——Jean Paul
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
教师的影响力是永恒的；他无法估计其深远的影响。
——H.B.Adams
A man who gives his children habit's of industry provides for them better than giving them a fortune.
培养孩子勤奋的习惯比给他们一份丰厚的财产好得多。
——R.Whatley
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks.
聪明的人未雨绸缪。
——Shakespeare
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
破了的夹克可以补上；但苛刻的话伤及孩子的心。
——Longfellow
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
给孩子一点爱，你会得到更多的爱。
——John Ruskin
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
旅行对青年人而言是一种教育；对老年人来说，是一种经历。
——Francis Bacon
Talent is the gift plus the passion -- a desire to succeed so intense that not force on earth can stop it.
才能是天分加激情——强烈的成功愿望世界上任何力量都阻挡不了。
——Neil Simon
You have to be first, best or different.
你得是第一个，最好的，或是与众不同。
——Loretta Lynn
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
没有比诚实更珍贵的遗产。
——Shakespeare
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.
文化与修养
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
世上唯有人最伟大；人中唯有头脑最重要。
——A.Hamilton
What is a man but his mind?
人无头脑，何以为人？
——Clarke
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
笑，这世界与你同笑；哭，独自去哭吧。
——E.W.Wilcox
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
当一个人内心开始斗争时，其生存才有价值。
——Robert Browning.
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
把握过去的人也把握未来，把握现在的人才能把握过去。
——George Orwell.
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
乐观是明智的选择。
——Diana Schneid
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
一个人的命运模式主要是由自己决定的。
——Francis Bacon
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
智慧通常不出现，所以我们不能因为它来得晚就拒绝它。
——Felix Frankfurter
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
死后仍活在人们心中的人，虽死犹生。
——Thomas Campbell
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
我认为至少每隔三年就得提醒自己谨慎行事。
——Molly Ivins
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
长远看来也许悲观者是正确的，但乐观者在路上会过得更愉快一些。
——Daniel L. Reardon
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves
如果我们不能忍受独自一人，这意味着我们不能好好珍惜我们从生到死的唯一伙伴—我们自己。——Eda LeShan
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
趁别人小题大做之前赶快承认错误。
——Andrew V. Mason
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
智慧让你远离需要智慧才能应付的处境。
——Doug Larson
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
悲观主义者抱怨有风，乐观主义者期待变天，现实主义者调整船帆。
——William Arthur Ward
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
上帝就像一面镜子。镜子从不变化，但每个照镜子的人都会看到不同的东西。
——Rabbi Harold Kushner
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener.
好思想结好果实，坏思想结坏果实—人可以做自己的园丁。
——John Sculley
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
如果你赢不了，就帮你前面那个破记录吧。
——Jan McKeithen
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
我们知道的最大的喜悦是偷偷地做件好事，而被人偶然发现。
——Charles Lamb
What are the aims which at the same time are duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.
什么既是目的又是职责呢？那就是，使我们自己完美，使别人幸福。
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
有时我们需要提醒自己，心怀感激实在是一种美德。
——William J. Bennett
Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
不要让任何人以为他没有影响力。
——Henry George
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
某种笨拙是借用他人思想的标志；但是一旦我们学会运用这些思想，他们便成为我们自己的东西了。——Emerson
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
道德文化有可能达到的最高境界是认识到我们应该控制自己的思想。
——Charles Darwin
Politeness is like an air cushion:There may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
礼貌就像一只气垫，里面可以什么也没有，却能奇妙地减轻颠簸。
——Samuel Johnson
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
沉默并不是智慧的标识，但唠叨永远是一项愚行。
——Benjamin Franklin
To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
注重智慧、真理和魂进步远比追求金钱、荣誉和名胜要好得多。
——Socrates
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
真理是无情的，但也可以很可爱，它使爱它的人自由。
——Sartre
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
不懂得你沉默的人也不懂得你的语言。
——Elbert Hubbard
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
满足所得，但不能满足现状。
——J. Mackingtosh
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
美丽而引人注目的东西不一定都好，好的东西不一定都美丽。
——L'Enclos
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
生活教会了我去思考，但思考却没有教会我怎么去生活。
——Alexander Herzen
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的价值是思想行动，而非寿命长短来衡量的。
——Avebury
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
真正的幸福指的是我们如何开始，而不是如何结束；指的是我们渴求什么，而不是我们拥有什么。——R.L.Stevenson
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不花费你一分钱，却能助你赢得一切。
——Montagu
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。
——G.K.Chesterton
That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
令你难以忍受的痛苦的事情可能带给你以甜美的回忆。
——Fuller
Life is too short to be wasted in hatred, revenge, fault-finding, prejudice, intolerance and destruction.
人生短暂，不容我们把时间浪费于仇恨，复仇，吹毛求疵，偏见，偏狭和破坏上。
——W.A.Peterson
It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.
并非考究的衣饰使人成为绅士。
——Thomas Fuller
Wisdom is a tree that grows in the heart, and it's fruit appears upon the tongue.
智慧是一棵树，生长于于心中，果实结在舌上。
——Friedrich Diez
青春和理想
Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.
没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。
——R.Peters
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。
——John Ruskin
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。
——Paul Nitze
High expectations are the key to everything.
远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。
——Sam Walton
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。
——G.Eliot
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。
——Larry McMurtry
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的人。
——Einstein
Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.
在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。
——R.L.Stevenson
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是顿美好的早餐，但却是顿糟糕的晚餐。
——Francis Bacon
It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
白发并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年纪。
——Edward B.Lytton
If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
如果年轻时不培养知识，年老时将没有乘凉的树荫。
——Chesterfield
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步乃今日之努力，明日之保证。
——Emerson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
青年时卤莽；中年时奋斗；老年时后悔。
——Benjamin Disraeli
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out.
时间一点一滴地流逝，如同蜡烛慢慢燃尽。
——Willian Yeats
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得过碌碌无为的一生。
——Scott
When your will is ready, your feet are light.
当你的意志坚强了，你前进的脚步就轻快了。
——Herbert
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
对于一只盲目航行的船而言，所有方向的风都是逆风。
——Herbert
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall.
人生的光荣不在于从不失败，而在于跌倒后每次都能站起来。
——O.Goldsmith
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
并不是我的所有愿望都能实现，但我依然拥有希望。
——Ovid
All the advantage isn't in running fast, but rather in getting an early start.
优势不在于跑得快，而在于起身早。
——Rabelais
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。
——Tennyson
Ages are all equal, but genius is always above it's age.
一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。
——William Blake
Unhappy, hope; happy, be cautions.
失意时，满怀希望；得意时，凡事审慎。
——Robert Burton
The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is no life.
理想是灯塔。没有理想，就没有明确的航向；没有航向就没有生活。
——Leo Tolstoy
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
一个目标过高和过低都会偏离靶心。
——Thomas Fuller
Life's like a play: It's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
生活如一个剧本：重要的不是长度而是演出精彩与否。
——Seneca
A man's not old, but mellow, like good wine.
人不会老朽， 而是越来越有味道，就像美酒。
——Stephen Phillips
The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
有一点我可以确信，如果我们就过去和现在展开一场争吵， 我们就会发现我们已失去将来。
——W.Churchill
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。
——Fontenelle
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
精彩的人生未必完美。
——Annette Funicello
文学与艺术
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art give it some.
生活是美好的，但它缺少形式，艺术的目标正是给生活某种形式。
——Jean Anouilh
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
艺术是让我们意识到真理的诺言。
——Picasso
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
检验一个人是不是真正的喜剧家就是你是否在他未开口时就笑。
——G. J. Nathan
Speech was given to man to express his thought.
语言赋予人类是为了表达思想。
——Moliere
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
没有人能通过模仿别人而成名。
——Samuel Johnson
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
眼睛是画家，耳朵是歌唱家。
——Emerson
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
伟大著作是由其风格和内容来衡量的，而不是其语法的修饰和多变。
——Mark Twain
Music is the universal language of mankind.
音乐是全人类的共通语言。
——Longfellow
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。
——A. Hunt
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
事物的美存在于细心观察它的人们的头脑中。
——Hume
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
笑是扫尽心灵中蜘蛛网的刷子。
——Mort Walker
What is art but a way of seeing?
艺术不是一种观察方式是什么？
——Thomas Berger
Music is the most enthralling phenomenon in the world.
音乐是世界上最迷人的一种事物。
——S.K.Langer
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
诗歌比历史更接近于事实真相。
——Plato
Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.
回忆是层层涟漪中出现的梦。
——H. Sandburg
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
妙想就像在外流浪的孩子，会在你最意想不到的时候出现。
——Bern Williams
友谊与爱情
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
用礼物“买来”的朋友终会被买走。
——Thomas Fuller
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
友谊是一根金线，把全世界的心连在一起。
——J.Evelyn
Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任，就没有友谊。
——Epicurus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
在顺境中，朋友结识了我们；在逆境中，我们了解了朋友。
——C.Collins
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
友谊如金钱一般，容易得到却不易保持。
——Samuel Butler
Friendship often ends in love, but love, in friendship—never
友谊常以爱情而结束；而爱情从不能以友谊而告终。
——C.C.Colton
Suspicion is the poison of friendship.
猜疑对友谊而言是一种毒药。
——St.Augustine
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
不要向不如你幸福的人说你自己的幸福。
——Plutarch
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
幸福犹如香水，你不可能泼向别人而自己却不沾几滴。
——Emerson
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
爱令智昏。——Francis Bacon
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
想被人爱，就要去爱别人，并让自己可爱。
——Benjamin Franklin
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
兄弟未必是朋友，而朋友总是兄弟。
——Benjamin Franklin
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
爱情、友谊和尊敬都不如对某物的共同的恨那样能把人们团结起来。
——Chekhow
The course of true love never did run smooth.
通向真爱的路从无坦途。——Shakespeare
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
有没有爱情的婚姻，就会有没有婚姻的爱情。
——Benjamin Franklin
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
如果不想让你的敌人得知你的秘密，就不要把秘密告诉你的朋友。
——Benjamin Franklin
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
在爱过和恨过一个人之后才能真正了解他。
——Marcel Jouhandeau
True friendship foresees the needs of other rather than proclaim it's own.
真正的友人总是考虑别人的需要而不是提出自己的要求。
——A.Maurois
Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
有了好的旅伴，路途就变得无比短暂。
——Oliver Goldsmith
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
爱是对人类之存在这一问题唯一明智而又令人满意的答案。
——Erich Fromm
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.
碰见一个快乐的人比捡到一张五镑钞票还要好。
——R.L.stevenson
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
当朋友之间互相都觉得比对方稍稍优越时，友谊便能长久下去。
——Honore de Balzac
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
初恋只不过是些愚蠢加上大量的好奇。
——G.B.Shaw
Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.
爱在起始阶段是脆弱的，但如果悉心呵护，它会随着时间的推移而牢固起来。
——Ovid
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
爱是种对那些为我们所爱的人或物的生活、成长积极主动的关心。
——Erith Fromm
A friend is a present which you give yourself.
朋友是你送给自己的一份礼物。
——R.L.Stevenson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
别交那些在一起让你舒舒服服的朋友。交那些让你不得不长进的朋友。
——Thomas J.Watson
Real love stories never have endings.
真正的爱情故事从来不会结束。
——Richard Bach
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
如果你想估算一下你的价值，数一数你的朋友吧。
——Merry Browne
The best proof of love is trust.
爱的最好证明就是信任。
——Joyce Brothers
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
真正的朋友从不追究你的过错，也从不妒忌你的成功。
——Doug Larson
A common enemy does not a true friendship make.
有共同的敌人并不能造就真正的朋友。
——Richard Stengel
人性与道德
The proper function of man is to live, but not to exist.
人应该生活，而非单纯生存。
——Jack London
Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。
——G.Meredith
He that is once born, once must die.
有生必有死。——Herbert
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。
——Caxton
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
如果你独自一人时笑了，那是真心的笑。
——Andy Rooney
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
——H.W.Arnold
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。——Suetonius
People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。——Arnold Glasgow
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
从不犯错的人将一事无成。
——G.B.Shaw
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
一个骗子即使在说真话时，旁人也不会相信。
——Aesop
What is a man's first duty? the answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么？很简单：做自己。
——Henrik Ibsen
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
如果人们敢于互相推心置腹地讲出心里话，一百年后世界将会减少许多痛苦。
——Samuel Butler
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
激情虽难以驾驭，却是种强大的动力。
——Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
人人都希望长寿，但没人愿意变老。
——Jonathan Swift
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。
——Thomas Carlyle
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。
——Emerson
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
人们首先想知道你在乎多少，然后才在乎你知道多少。
——James Hind
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
有许多人错将他们的想象当做记忆。
——Josh Billings
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。
——Pope
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
在别人身上我们抱怨最多的东西往往也是我们自身中自己也不喜欢的东西。
——William Wharton
The miracle is this-the more we share, the more we have.
神奇的是我们分享的越多，我们拥有的也越多。
——Leonard Nimoy
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。
——Pope
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
忍耐超过了一定的限度便不再是美德了。
——Edmund Burke
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇气的人则失去一切。
——Cervantes
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。
——Thomas Carlyle
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess it becomes foolishness.
乐观是种优秀品质，但如过分乐观就是愚蠢了。
——Theodore Roosevelt
It's the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.
愚蠢的人之所以蠢在于他们只看到别人的缺点而对自己的视而不见。
——Cicero
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
傻瓜才仰慕别人，而有见识的人赞赏别人。
——Pope
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。
——Benjamin Franklin
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。
——Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
信任别人，别人才会对你忠诚；尊敬别人，别人才显示其可敬之处。
——Emerson
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
做一件好事并不难，难的是养成一种做好事的习惯。
——Aristotle
学习与奋斗
There is no royal road to learning.
学无坦途。——Anthony Trollope
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much and studying much.
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。
——Catherall
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
人们缺少的不是力量，而是勇气。
——Hugo
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
失败了你或许会失望，但如果不去试，你就死定了。
——Beverly Sills
Say well is good, but do well is better.
能说得天花乱坠是不错，但做得天衣无缝则更高。
——Clarke
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
成功没有秘诀。它是仔细准备，努力工作，从失败中吸取教训的结果。
——Gen.Colin L.Powell
He that seeks finds.
寻者获之。 ——Heywood
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
一个人如果失败了并不会完蛋，只有放弃了才会完蛋。
——Richard Nixon
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不加思考，如同吃东西不经消化。
——Edmund Burke
Genius only means hardworking all one's life.
天才只意味着终生刻苦奋斗。
——Menjelev
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing.
永远记住：决心成功比任何一件事都重要。
——Abraham Lincoln
Chances favor the minds that are prepared.
机遇总是降临到时刻做好准备的人身上。
——Pasteur
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
做好准备是成功的首要秘诀。
——Henry ford
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
成功的奥秘在于坚持不懈地奔向目标。
——Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
事情成功之前没有不艰苦的。——Syrus
It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it.
对真理的追求要比对其占有更有价值。
——Einstein
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
伟大的事业靠恒心而不是力量来完成。
——Samuel Johnson
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
有耐力的人才能达其目的。
——Benjamin Franklin
You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.
如果你是懦夫，你是自己最大的敌人；如果你是勇敢的人，你是自己最好的朋友。
——Frank
If one desires to succeed in everything, he must pay the price.
如果一个人渴望每件事都成功，他必须为之付出努力。
——Emerson
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
有时奇迹会出现，但你必须努力工作去争取。
——Weizmann
Rough is the road that leads to the heights of greatness.
通往巅峰的路必定崎岖不平。
——Seneca
If time being of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
如果时间是最宝贵的东西，浪费时间应是最大的挥霍。
——Benjamin Franklin
It's a maxim of wise man never to return by the same road he came.
智者的座右铭为：永不走回头路。——Scott
Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.
给我一个支点，我将移动地球。
——Archimides
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才等于百分之一的灵感加百分之九十九的汗水。
——Thomas Edison
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
确信你是正确的，就勇往直前。
——David Crockett
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
生活的艺术在于知道怎样享受一点点而忍受许多许多。
——William Hazlitt
He who gains time gains everything.
赢得时间的人能赢得一切。
——Benjamin Disraeli
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
不希望赢的人已经输了。
——J.J. Olmedo
He who falls today, may rise tomorrow.
今日失败的人，也许明日就会奋起。
——Cervantes
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves-in finding themselves.
只有在探险中，一个人才成功地认识自己，找到了自己。
——Andre Gide
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
一个男人最大的财富就是爱妻和健康。
——Fuller
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.
幸福的家庭都是相似的；而不幸的家庭各各不同。
——Leo Tolstoy
Love makes the world go round.
爱使世界转动。——Charles Dickens
Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created.
幸福婚姻并不是自然而然就有的，它需要努力去创造。
——W.A.Peterson
A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmaster.
一位好母亲抵得上一百个教师。
——George Herbert
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of incidents as disasters.
成功的婚姻的秘诀在于：把大灾难看成小事故，而不要把小事故看成大灾难。
——Harold Nicolson
Love is a sweet torment.
爱是甜蜜的折磨。——Draxe
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who find peace in his home.
无论是国王还是农夫，只要家庭和睦，他便是最幸福的人。
——Goethe
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
生活就像个洋葱：你只能一次剥开一层，有时还会流泪。
——Garl Sandburg
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
只要有无限的热情，一个人几乎在任何事情上都能取得成功。
——Charles M.Schwab
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
机会常常是你第一次没有注意到的东西。
——Catherine Deneuve
You can't expect to make a place in the sun for yourself if you keep taking refuge under the family tree.
如果你总是躺在家庭的大树下，别想在阳光中为自己找到一个位置。
——Claude McDonald
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
我们所预料的事情很少发生，我们最始料不及的事情却往往发生了。
——Benjamin Disraeli
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有那些有耐心将小事做好的人才能掌握轻而易举完成难事的技巧。
——Friedrich Schiller
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
对于那些害怕危险的人，危险无处不在。
——G.B.Shaw
If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
如果你没法将孩子拥在怀里，那就在心里想着他们吧。
——Mother Clarahale
教育与成长
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
勇敢永远都不会过时。
——W.M.Thackery
Better do a little well, than a great deal badly.
宁可做得少而精，不要做得多而糟。
——Socrates
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
从一个儿童教育的开始，他就应体验到发现的快乐。
——A.N.Whitehead
Youth is more courageous than age because it knows less. Age is wiser than youth because it knows more.
青年人比老年人勇气大，因为他们知道的比较少。老年人比青年人明智，因为他们知道的较多。
——W.E.B.DuBois
For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.
对许多人来说，生命中最长的一英里就是从依赖到独立之间的距离。
——Carla B.James
Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like.
只有使一个人看清自己，他才能进步。
——Chekhow
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
生活的价值不在于生命的长短，而在于我们是怎样度过的。
——Montaigne
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
教育就是要使人具备一种能力，可以听到任何话都不动怒或丧失自信。
——Robert Frost
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
能够以自己的方式度过一生，这是唯一的成功
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important which he gives himself.
每个人都接受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。
——E.Gibbon
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
教育之树根部是苦的，但其果实是甜蜜的。
——Aristotle
Education begins its work while the first breath of the child.
当婴儿呱呱坠地时，人生教育就开始了。
——Jean Paul
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
教师的影响力是永恒的；他无法估计其深远的影响。
——H.B.Adams
A man who gives his children habit's of industry provides for them better than giving them a fortune.
培养孩子勤奋的习惯比给他们一份丰厚的财产好得多。
——R.Whatley
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks.
聪明的人未雨绸缪。
——Shakespeare
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
破了的夹克可以补上；但苛刻的话伤及孩子的心。
——Longfellow
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
给孩子一点爱，你会得到更多的爱。
——John Ruskin
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
旅行对青年人而言是一种教育；对老年人来说，是一种经历。
——Francis Bacon
Talent is the gift plus the passion -- a desire to succeed so intense that not force on earth can stop it.
才能是天分加激情——强烈的成功愿望世界上任何力量都阻挡不了。
——Neil Simon
You have to be first, best or different.
你得是第一个，最好的，或是与众不同。
——Loretta Lynn
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
没有比诚实更珍贵的遗产。
——Shakespeare
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.
文化与修养
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
世上唯有人最伟大；人中唯有头脑最重要。
——A.Hamilton
What is a man but his mind?
人无头脑，何以为人？
——Clarke
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
笑，这世界与你同笑；哭，独自去哭吧。
——E.W.Wilcox
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
当一个人内心开始斗争时，其生存才有价值。
——Robert Browning.
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.
把握过去的人也把握未来，把握现在的人才能把握过去。
——George Orwell.
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
乐观是明智的选择。
——Diana Schneid
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
一个人的命运模式主要是由自己决定的。
——Francis Bacon
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
智慧通常不出现，所以我们不能因为它来得晚就拒绝它。
——Felix Frankfurter
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
死后仍活在人们心中的人，虽死犹生。
——Thomas Campbell
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
我认为至少每隔三年就得提醒自己谨慎行事。
——Molly Ivins
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
长远看来也许悲观者是正确的，但乐观者在路上会过得更愉快一些。
——Daniel L. Reardon
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves
如果我们不能忍受独自一人，这意味着我们不能好好珍惜我们从生到死的唯一伙伴—我们自己。——Eda LeShan
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
趁别人小题大做之前赶快承认错误。
——Andrew V. Mason
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
智慧让你远离需要智慧才能应付的处境。
——Doug Larson
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
悲观主义者抱怨有风，乐观主义者期待变天，现实主义者调整船帆。
——William Arthur Ward
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
上帝就像一面镜子。镜子从不变化，但每个照镜子的人都会看到不同的东西。
——Rabbi Harold Kushner
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit—and man is his own gardener.
好思想结好果实，坏思想结坏果实—人可以做自己的园丁。
——John Sculley
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
如果你赢不了，就帮你前面那个破记录吧。
——Jan McKeithen
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
我们知道的最大的喜悦是偷偷地做件好事，而被人偶然发现。
——Charles Lamb
What are the aims which at the same time are duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.
什么既是目的又是职责呢？那就是，使我们自己完美，使别人幸福。
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
有时我们需要提醒自己，心怀感激实在是一种美德。
——William J. Bennett
Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
不要让任何人以为他没有影响力。
——Henry George
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
某种笨拙是借用他人思想的标志；但是一旦我们学会运用这些思想，他们便成为我们自己的东西了。——Emerson
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
道德文化有可能达到的最高境界是认识到我们应该控制自己的思想。
——Charles Darwin
Politeness is like an air cushion:There may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
礼貌就像一只气垫，里面可以什么也没有，却能奇妙地减轻颠簸。
——Samuel Johnson
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
沉默并不是智慧的标识，但唠叨永远是一项愚行。
——Benjamin Franklin
To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
注重智慧、真理和魂进步远比追求金钱、荣誉和名胜要好得多。
——Socrates
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
真理是无情的，但也可以很可爱，它使爱它的人自由。
——Sartre
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
不懂得你沉默的人也不懂得你的语言。
——Elbert Hubbard
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
满足所得，但不能满足现状。
——J. Mackingtosh
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
美丽而引人注目的东西不一定都好，好的东西不一定都美丽。
——L'Enclos
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
生活教会了我去思考，但思考却没有教会我怎么去生活。
——Alexander Herzen
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的价值是思想行动，而非寿命长短来衡量的。
——Avebury
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
真正的幸福指的是我们如何开始，而不是如何结束；指的是我们渴求什么，而不是我们拥有什么。——R.L.Stevenson
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不花费你一分钱，却能助你赢得一切。
——Montagu
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。
——G.K.Chesterton
That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
令你难以忍受的痛苦的事情可能带给你以甜美的回忆。
——Fuller
Life is too short to be wasted in hatred, revenge, fault-finding, prejudice, intolerance and destruction.
人生短暂，不容我们把时间浪费于仇恨，复仇，吹毛求疵，偏见，偏狭和破坏上。
——W.A.Peterson
It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.
并非考究的衣饰使人成为绅士。
——Thomas Fuller
Wisdom is a tree that grows in the heart, and it's fruit appears upon the tongue.
智慧是一棵树，生长于于心中，果实结在舌上。
——Friedrich Diez
青春和理想
Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.
没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。
——R.Peters
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。
——John Ruskin
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。
——Paul Nitze
High expectations are the key to everything.
远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。
——Sam Walton
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。
——G.Eliot
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。
——Larry McMurtry
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的人。
——Einstein
Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.
在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。
——R.L.Stevenson
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是顿美好的早餐，但却是顿糟糕的晚餐。
——Francis Bacon
It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
白发并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年纪。
——Edward B.Lytton
If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
如果年轻时不培养知识，年老时将没有乘凉的树荫。
——Chesterfield
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步乃今日之努力，明日之保证。
——Emerson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
青年时卤莽；中年时奋斗；老年时后悔。
——Benjamin Disraeli
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out.
时间一点一滴地流逝，如同蜡烛慢慢燃尽。
——Willian Yeats
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得过碌碌无为的一生。
——Scott
When your will is ready, your feet are light.
当你的意志坚强了，你前进的脚步就轻快了。
——Herbert
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
对于一只盲目航行的船而言，所有方向的风都是逆风。
——Herbert
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall.
人生的光荣不在于从不失败，而在于跌倒后每次都能站起来。
——O.Goldsmith
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
并不是我的所有愿望都能实现，但我依然拥有希望。
——Ovid
All the advantage isn't in running fast, but rather in getting an early start.
优势不在于跑得快，而在于起身早。
——Rabelais
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。
——Tennyson
Ages are all equal, but genius is always above it's age.
一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。
——William Blake
Unhappy, hope; happy, be cautions.
失意时，满怀希望；得意时，凡事审慎。
——Robert Burton
The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is no life.
理想是灯塔。没有理想，就没有明确的航向；没有航向就没有生活。
——Leo Tolstoy
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
一个目标过高和过低都会偏离靶心。
——Thomas Fuller
Life's like a play: It's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
生活如一个剧本：重要的不是长度而是演出精彩与否。
——Seneca
A man's not old, but mellow, like good wine.
人不会老朽， 而是越来越有味道，就像美酒。
——Stephen Phillips
The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你；笑着对它，它也笑着看你。
——H.L.Samuel
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
有一点我可以确信，如果我们就过去和现在展开一场争吵， 我们就会发现我们已失去将来。
——W.Churchill
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。
——Fontenelle
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
精彩的人生未必完美。
——Annette Funicello
文学与艺术
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art give it some.
生活是美好的，但它缺少形式，艺术的目标正是给生活某种形式。
——Jean Anouilh
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
艺术是让我们意识到真理的诺言。
——Picasso
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
检验一个人是不是真正的喜剧家就是你是否在他未开口时就笑。
——G. J. Nathan
Speech was given to man to express his thought.
语言赋予人类是为了表达思想。
——Moliere
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
没有人能通过模仿别人而成名。
——Samuel Johnson
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
眼睛是画家，耳朵是歌唱家。
——Emerson
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
伟大著作是由其风格和内容来衡量的，而不是其语法的修饰和多变。
——Mark Twain
Music is the universal language of mankind.
音乐是全人类的共通语言。
——Longfellow
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。
——A. Hunt
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
事物的美存在于细心观察它的人们的头脑中。
——Hume
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
笑是扫尽心灵中蜘蛛网的刷子。
——Mort Walker
What is art but a way of seeing?
艺术不是一种观察方式是什么？
——Thomas Berger
Music is the most enthralling phenomenon in the world.
音乐是世界上最迷人的一种事物。
——S.K.Langer
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
诗歌比历史更接近于事实真相。
——Plato
Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.
回忆是层层涟漪中出现的梦。
——H. Sandburg
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
妙想就像在外流浪的孩子，会在你最意想不到的时候出现。
——Bern Williams
友谊与爱情
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
用礼物“买来”的朋友终会被买走。
——Thomas Fuller
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
友谊是一根金线，把全世界的心连在一起。
——J.Evelyn
Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任，就没有友谊。
——Epicurus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
在顺境中，朋友结识了我们；在逆境中，我们了解了朋友。
——C.Collins
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
友谊如金钱一般，容易得到却不易保持。
——Samuel Butler
Friendship often ends in love, but love, in friendship—never
友谊常以爱情而结束；而爱情从不能以友谊而告终。
——C.C.Colton
Suspicion is the poison of friendship.
猜疑对友谊而言是一种毒药。
——St.Augustine
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
不要向不如你幸福的人说你自己的幸福。
——Plutarch
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
幸福犹如香水，你不可能泼向别人而自己却不沾几滴。
——Emerson
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
爱令智昏。——Francis Bacon
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
想被人爱，就要去爱别人，并让自己可爱。
——Benjamin Franklin
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
兄弟未必是朋友，而朋友总是兄弟。
——Benjamin Franklin
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
爱情、友谊和尊敬都不如对某物的共同的恨那样能把人们团结起来。
——Chekhow
The course of true love never did run smooth.
通向真爱的路从无坦途。——Shakespeare
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
有没有爱情的婚姻，就会有没有婚姻的爱情。
——Benjamin Franklin
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
如果不想让你的敌人得知你的秘密，就不要把秘密告诉你的朋友。
——Benjamin Franklin
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
在爱过和恨过一个人之后才能真正了解他。
——Marcel Jouhandeau
True friendship foresees the needs of other rather than proclaim it's own.
真正的友人总是考虑别人的需要而不是提出自己的要求。
——A.Maurois
Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
有了好的旅伴，路途就变得无比短暂。
——Oliver Goldsmith
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
爱是对人类之存在这一问题唯一明智而又令人满意的答案。
——Erich Fromm
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.
碰见一个快乐的人比捡到一张五镑钞票还要好。
——R.L.stevenson
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
当朋友之间互相都觉得比对方稍稍优越时，友谊便能长久下去。
——Honore de Balzac
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
初恋只不过是些愚蠢加上大量的好奇。
——G.B.Shaw
Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.
爱在起始阶段是脆弱的，但如果悉心呵护，它会随着时间的推移而牢固起来。
——Ovid
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
爱是种对那些为我们所爱的人或物的生活、成长积极主动的关心。
——Erith Fromm
A friend is a present which you give yourself.
朋友是你送给自己的一份礼物。
——R.L.Stevenson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
别交那些在一起让你舒舒服服的朋友。交那些让你不得不长进的朋友。
——Thomas J.Watson
Real love stories never have endings.
真正的爱情故事从来不会结束。
——Richard Bach
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
如果你想估算一下你的价值，数一数你的朋友吧。
——Merry Browne
The best proof of love is trust.
爱的最好证明就是信任。
——Joyce Brothers
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
真正的朋友从不追究你的过错，也从不妒忌你的成功。
——Doug Larson
A common enemy does not a true friendship make.
有共同的敌人并不能造就真正的朋友。
——Richard Stengel
人性与道德
The proper function of man is to live, but not to exist.
人应该生活，而非单纯生存。
——Jack London
Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。
——G.Meredith
He that is once born, once must die.
有生必有死。——Herbert
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。
——Caxton
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
如果你独自一人时笑了，那是真心的笑。
——Andy Rooney
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
——H.W.Arnold
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。——Suetonius
People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。——Arnold Glasgow
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
从不犯错的人将一事无成。
——G.B.Shaw
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
一个骗子即使在说真话时，旁人也不会相信。
——Aesop
What is a man's first duty? the answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么？很简单：做自己。
——Henrik Ibsen
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
如果人们敢于互相推心置腹地讲出心里话，一百年后世界将会减少许多痛苦。
——Samuel Butler
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
激情虽难以驾驭，却是种强大的动力。
——Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
人人都希望长寿，但没人愿意变老。
——Jonathan Swift
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。
——Thomas Carlyle
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。
——Emerson
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
人们首先想知道你在乎多少，然后才在乎你知道多少。
——James Hind
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
有许多人错将他们的想象当做记忆。
——Josh Billings
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。
——Pope
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
在别人身上我们抱怨最多的东西往往也是我们自身中自己也不喜欢的东西。
——William Wharton
The miracle is this-the more we share, the more we have.
神奇的是我们分享的越多，我们拥有的也越多。
——Leonard Nimoy
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。
——Pope
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
忍耐超过了一定的限度便不再是美德了。
——Edmund Burke
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇气的人则失去一切。
——Cervantes
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。
——Thomas Carlyle
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess it becomes foolishness.
乐观是种优秀品质，但如过分乐观就是愚蠢了。
——Theodore Roosevelt
It's the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.
愚蠢的人之所以蠢在于他们只看到别人的缺点而对自己的视而不见。
——Cicero
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
傻瓜才仰慕别人，而有见识的人赞赏别人。
——Pope
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。
——Benjamin Franklin
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。
——Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
信任别人，别人才会对你忠诚；尊敬别人，别人才显示其可敬之处。
——Emerson
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
做一件好事并不难，难的是养成一种做好事的习惯。
——Aristotle
学习与奋斗
There is no royal road to learning.
学无坦途。——Anthony Trollope
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much and studying much.
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。
——Catherall
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
人们缺少的不是力量，而是勇气。
——Hugo
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
失败了你或许会失望，但如果不去试，你就死定了。
——Beverly Sills
Say well is good, but do well is better.
能说得天花乱坠是不错，但做得天衣无缝则更高。
——Clarke
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
成功没有秘诀。它是仔细准备，努力工作，从失败中吸取教训的结果。
——Gen.Colin L.Powell
He that seeks finds.
寻者获之。 ——Heywood
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
一个人如果失败了并不会完蛋，只有放弃了才会完蛋。
——Richard Nixon
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不加思考，如同吃东西不经消化。
——Edmund Burke
Genius only means hardworking all one's life.
天才只意味着终生刻苦奋斗。
——Menjelev
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing.
永远记住：决心成功比任何一件事都重要。
——Abraham Lincoln
Chances favor the minds that are prepared.
机遇总是降临到时刻做好准备的人身上。
——Pasteur
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
做好准备是成功的首要秘诀。
——Henry ford
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
成功的奥秘在于坚持不懈地奔向目标。
——Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
事情成功之前没有不艰苦的。——Syrus
It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it.
对真理的追求要比对其占有更有价值。
——Einstein
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
伟大的事业靠恒心而不是力量来完成。
——Samuel Johnson
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
有耐力的人才能达其目的。
——Benjamin Franklin
You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.
如果你是懦夫，你是自己最大的敌人；如果你是勇敢的人，你是自己最好的朋友。
——Frank
If one desires to succeed in everything, he must pay the price.
如果一个人渴望每件事都成功，他必须为之付出努力。
——Emerson
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
有时奇迹会出现，但你必须努力工作去争取。
——Weizmann
Rough is the road that leads to the heights of greatness.
通往巅峰的路必定崎岖不平。
——Seneca
If time being of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
如果时间是最宝贵的东西，浪费时间应是最大的挥霍。
——Benjamin Franklin
It's a maxim of wise man never to return by the same road he came.
智者的座右铭为：永不走回头路。——Scott
Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.
给我一个支点，我将移动地球。
——Archimides
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才等于百分之一的灵感加百分之九十九的汗水。
——Thomas Edison
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
确信你是正确的，就勇往直前。
——David Crockett
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
生活的艺术在于知道怎样享受一点点而忍受许多许多。
——William Hazlitt
He who gains time gains everything.
赢得时间的人能赢得一切。
——Benjamin Disraeli
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
不希望赢的人已经输了。
——J.J. Olmedo
He who falls today, may rise tomorrow.
今日失败的人，也许明日就会奋起。
——Cervantes
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves-in finding themselves.
只有在探险中，一个人才成功地认识自己，找到了自己。
——Andre Gide
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