名人名言（双语）

淇园之竹

Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. Josh Billings. American humorist友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。美国幽默作家 比林斯. .J

　

Happiness is beneficial for the body , but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust, French writer 愉快有益于人的身体，但只有悲伤才能培养心灵力量。法国作家 普鲁斯 M

　

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.相聚愛益切，离別情更深。

　

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George William Curtis, American writer 年纪只是个感觉的问题，而不是岁月的问题。美国作家柯蒂斯.G.W.

　

Anticipating pleasure is also a pleasure. Friedrich Schiller. German dramatist and poet 预期快乐本身也是一种快乐。德国剧作家、诗人席勒.F.   

　

The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart. H. Black American writer 生活的范围是随着心胸的开阔而变宽广的。美国作家 布莱克,H.

　

A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times .A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Arthur Schopenhauer. German philosopher 一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼，对每个人都是时时必需的。一艘船如果没有压舱物，便不会稳定，不能朝着目的地一直前进。德国哲学家 叔本华 A

　

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington, Father of the United States 自由一旦生根，便是株迅猛生长的植物。美国国父 华盛顿 .G.

　

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them up from dreams and hug them for real.
　

Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. N. Hawthorn, American writer 幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。美国作家霍桑.N.
　

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired , and success achieved. Helen Keller, American writer 要使性格有所发展并非简单之事，只有通过艰难和困苦的磨练才能使心灵强化，视野开阔，雄心振奋，从而达到成功的目的。美国作家凯勒H.

　

A friend is , as it were, a second self. Cicero, Ancient Roman statesman 可以说，朋友是另一个自我。古罗马政治家 西塞罗

　

A light heart can bear everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet 轻松愉快的心情能够忍受一切。 德国诗人歌德.J.W　　

　

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw　初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G

　

A man , like a watch , is to be valued by his manner of going. William Penn, British admiral 一个人，正如一个时钟，是以他的行动来定其价值的。英国海军上将 佩恩 W.

　

Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin. American president 放债的比借债记性好。美国总统富兰克林。B.

　

A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. Thomas Jefferson American president 一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。 美国总统 杰斐逊.T.

　

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning un-necessary. D.C,Fisher, American female novelist 母亲不是赖以依靠的人，而是使依靠成为不必要的人。 美国女小说家 菲席尔.D.C. 　

　

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. Voltaire, French philosopher 休息是件好事情，无聊却是其兄弟。法国哲学家 伏尔泰

　

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. J. Burroughs. American naturalist 一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。美国博物学家 巴勒斯. J.

　

Between the ideal and the reality, Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow. Thomas Stearns Eliot, British Poet and critic 理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。英国诗人、批评家 爱略特，T，S。
　

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. Ralph Waldo Emerson. American thinker 美丽的体形胜过漂亮的脸蛋；美丽的行为胜过美丽的体形。美国思想家 爱默生.R.W

　

Absence to love is what wind is to fire .It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer
离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。法国作家 比西-拉比旦.R.

　

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. 谦虚不仅是一种装饰品, 也是美德的护卫。 －－Joseph Addison 爱迪生
　

Few rich men own their property. The property owns them. Robert Green Ingersoll. American Lawyer 极少富人拥有他们的财产，是财产拥有他们。美国律师英格索尔.R.G.

　

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others. William A White . American journalist. 自由就是这样的东西，不给予别人你自己也无法得到。美国记者 怀特. W. A.

　

Growth and change are the law of all life. Yesterday's answers are inadequate for today's problems ----just as the solutions of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow. Franklin Roosevelt, American president　生长与变化是一切生命的法则。昨日的答案不适用于今日的问题——正如今天的方法不能解决明天的需求。美国总统 罗斯福,F.

　

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison. American writer 知足是人生在世最大的幸事。美国作家艾迪生.J.

　

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. John Locke, British Philosopher 人都会犯错误，在许多情况下，大多数仍是由于欲望或兴趣的引诱而犯错误的。英国哲学家 洛克.J.

　

It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that keeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be conflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength. Thomas Jefferson. American president 使自由保持活力是冲突而不是绝对的一致。在一个自由的国家里总会有各种相冲突的思想，而这正是力量的源泉。美国总统杰斐逊 .T.

　

I do not like work ---no man does --but I like what is in the work -----the chance to find yourself. Conrad Joseph, British novelist 我不喜欢工作——没有人会喜欢工作。但是我喜欢在所从事的工作中——找到发现自己的机会。英国小说家 约瑟夫.C.

　

Man's dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once. He must live so as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past--so live that, dying, he can say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all over the world--the fight for the liberation of mankind. ---Ostorovsky 人最宝贵的东西是生命。生命属于我们只有一次。一个人的生命应该这样度过：当他回首往事时，他不因虚度年华而悔恨，也不因过去碌碌无为而羞耻——这样，在他临死时，可以说：我整个生命和精力已献给了世界上最壮丽的事业——为人类的自由和解放而斗争。 ——奥斯特洛夫斯基

　

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. H.B.Adams, American historian 教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。美国历史学家 亚当斯 H B  

　

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. John Morley, British statesman 人不仅要做好事，更要以正确的方式做好事。英国政治家 莫利.J.

　

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George William Crutis, American witer 年纪只是个感觉的问题，而不是岁月的问题。美国作家柯蒂斯.G.W.
　

A father’s goodness is higher than the mountains; a mother’s goodness is deeper than the sea.

　

The success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 成功就是好好工作而不计较名利。
美国诗人朗费罗.H.W.

　

On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.
地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。--哈密尔顿 A. Hamilton

　

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. D.C,Fisher, American female novelist 母亲不是赖以依靠的人，而是使依靠成为不必要的人。美国女小说家 菲席尔.D.C.

　

Every man is a poet when he is in love.-- Plato每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。柏拉图

　

Fools learn nothing from wise men , but wise men learn much from fools.　傻瓜向聪明人学之甚少，而聪明人却向傻瓜学之甚多。

　

Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.人往高处走，水往低处流。

　

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 美丽的体形胜过漂亮的脸蛋；美丽的行为胜过美丽的体形。

　

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. J Barrymore, American Actor

只要一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。

　

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.有健康的人便有希望, 有希望的人便有一切.

　

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

　

Hedges have eyes and walls have ears. 篱笆有眼，墙壁长耳

　

Two heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，胜过一个诸葛亮

　

Some people are so busy making a living that they forget to make a life.

　

A man without distant care must have near sorrow. 人无远虑必有近忧

　

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

　

The greatest power you possess for succeeding in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose to start fresh.

　

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

　

Humans need love. It is in the giving and receiving of love that we choose life. Participating in this fundamental exchange lies in our ability to trust others

　

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.  ~Dr. James C. Dobson

　

The greatest power you possess for succeeding in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose to start fresh.

　

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late

　

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. --- George Gordon Byron

　

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him. -- H.E. Fosdick

　

"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."  -English Proverb

　

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.  ~Author Unknown

　

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.

　

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown

　

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.  ~Sydney J. Harris

　

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac

　

The first wealth is health.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

　

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

　

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.  ~Dion Boucicault

　

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."  --- Frank A. Clark

　

Growing older is mandatory; Growing up is optional.

　

"We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you." Jeff Warner

　

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.  ~Author Unknown


Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum

　

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~Winston Churchill


A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.  ~Author Unknown

　

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de SaintExupery

　

Winning is not everything; wanting to win is.

　

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.  ~G.K. Chesterton

　

Society comprises two classes:  those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.  


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927


The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.  ~Oscar Wilde

　

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.  ~Author Unknown

　

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.  ~Raymond Hitchcock

　

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.  ~Michael Burke

　

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost

　

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.  ~Somerset Maugham

　

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.  ~Confucius

　

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts.  ~Edith Zittler


Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas à Kempis


Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.  ~Rene Yasenek

　

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.

　

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman

　

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.  ~Jacob M. Braude


Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power

　

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli

　

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  ~George Santayana

　

Nothing is worth more than this day.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing（使士气低落）.  ~Harriet Braiker

　

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.  ~Italian Proverb

　

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.  ~Logan P. Smith

　

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Author Unknown

　

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

　

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.  ~Dion Boucicault

　

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.  ~Edmund Burke

　

Women get the last word in every argument.  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.  ~Author Unknown

　

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker.  If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.  ~Author Unknown

　

The word "good" has many meanings.  For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.  ~G.K. Chesterton

　

When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That's my religion.  ~Abraham Lincoln

　

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.  ~Titus Maccius Plautus

　

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players

　

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Some people are so busy making a living that they forget to make a life.  ~Author Unknown

　

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.  ~Author Unknown

　

No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.  ~Author Unknown

　

Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.  ~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

　

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  ~Victor Hugo

　

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.  ~Chinese Proverb

　

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.  ~Ingrid Bergman

　

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ~Plutarch

　

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.欢笑，整个世界伴你欢笑。哭泣，只有你独自向隅而泣

　

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.  ~Samuel Johnson

　

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.  ~Kent Nerburn

　

Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝

　

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.  ~Author Unknown

　

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

　

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux~

　

Everything is good when new, but friends when old.

　

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats


A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. - Chinese Proverb

　

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.  ~Albert Einstein

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  ~Victor Hugo

　

There are no menial (不体面的，奴仆的）jobs, only menial attitudes.  ~William J. Bennett

　

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

　

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.  ~Epictetus

　

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

　

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.  ~Thomas Jefferson

　

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.  ~Author Unknown

　

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.  ~William Shakespeare

　

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.  ~Dr. James C. Dobson

　

Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival.

　

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.  ~Abigail Van Buren

　

By all means marry, if you get a good wife, you'll be happy, if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher --- Socrates

　

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  ~Mark Twain

　

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

　

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."  ~ Author Unknown.

　

I don't care how poor a man is; If he has family, he's rich.  --- M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter   

　

“Give me liberty, or give me death!”   ---- Patrick Henry     

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  ---- Winston Churchill

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.; -- Author Unknown

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"; -- E.M. Kelly

; They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.; --- George Savile,

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.; -- Alexander Graham Bell

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.; --- Robert Byrne;

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.; --- Meister Eckhart

I am learning all the time.; The tombstone will be my diploma.; -- Eartha Kitt

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.;; --- Swedish Proverb

We turn not older with the years, but newer everyday. -- Emily Dickinson

To err is human, to forgive divine(神，超人的）-- Alexander Pope,

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -- Heraclitus

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. -- Appius Claudius

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- Leo Tolstoy

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -- David Dunham

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -- Buddha