classicial quotes
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
敢于当个傻瓜是走向智慧的第一步。
-James Gibbons Huneker(美国批评家 赫尼克)
2005-05-06
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
我不同意你说的话,但我誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
-Voltaire(法国作家伏尔泰)
2005-05-05
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
教育的最主要的目的,不是教你挣得面包,而是使每一口面包都香甜。
-J. Angel(美国心理学家安吉尔)
2005-05-04
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
世界上只有一处可以被你改变,那就是你自己。
-Aldous Huxley(英国作家,生物学赫胥黎)
2005-05-03
Don't gild the lily.
不要给百合花镀金(画蛇添足)。
-William Shakespeare(英国剧作家莎士比亚)
2005-05-02
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
品德不好,出生再好也无用。
-Moliere(法国剧作家莫里哀)
2005-04-29
Beauty lives with kindness.
美寓于善。
-William Shakespeare(英国剧作家莎士比亚)
2005-04-28
Fame is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
盛名珠誉是德才之忌。
-Nicolas Chamfort(法国作家尚福尔)
2005-04-27
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
只要我们能善用时间,就永远不愁时间不够用。
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人歌德)
2005-04-26
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance.
勉强应允不如坦诚拒绝。
-Victor Hugo(法国作家雨果)
2005-04-25
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。
-William Shakespeare(英国剧作家莎士比亚)
2005-04-22
Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
美貌就像宝石,不用装饰最好。
-Francis Bacon(英国哲学家培根)
2005-04-21
Variety is the mother of enjoyment.
变化为快乐之母。
-Benjamin Disraeli(英国政治家、作家狄斯雷利)
2005-04-20
Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
时间是一只永远飞翔的鸟。
-T.W. Robertson (英国剧作家罗伯逊)
2005-04-19
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise.
真正的幸福不显山露水,它摈弃浮华和喧嚣。
-Joseph Addison(英国作家艾迪生)
2005-04-18
To fill the hour- that is happiness.
让时间过的充实些,这才是幸福。
-R.W. Emerson(美国思想家爱默生)
2005-04-15
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' garden.
幸福生长在我们的火炉边,而不能从别人的花园中采得。
-D.W Jerrold(英国剧作家杰罗尔德)
2005-04-14
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
幸福在于自知拥有幸福。
-George Sand(法国女作家乔治•桑)
2005-04-13
The cure for anything is salt water --sweat, tears, or the sea.
咸水、汗水、泪水或者海水是治疗一切的良药。
-Isak Dineson (丹麦作家丁尼生)
2005-04-12
Money is a good servant and a bad master.
金钱是善仆,也是恶主。
-Francis Bacon(英国哲学家培根)
2005-04-11
One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.
一个人无法不变老,但他可以抵制腐朽。
-H.L.Samuel(英国哲学家塞缪尔)
2005-04-08
Mischief comes by the pound an goes away by the ounce.
病来如山倒,病去如抽丝。
-无名氏
2005-04-07
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起会使人健康,富有和聪明。
-Benjamin Franklin(美国总统富兰克林)
2005-04-06
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
成功由大量的失误造就。
-Bernard Shaw(英国剧作家肖伯纳)
2005-04-05
Sunshine can burn you , food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish---only bless.
阳光可能会炙烤你,食品可能毒害你,谚语可能诅咒你,图画可能侮辱你--音乐不会惩罚你,只会祝福你。
-Arthur Schnabel(奥地利钢琴家施纳贝尔)
2005-03-17
The more you study, the more you will find yourself ignorant.
学,然后知不足。
-Rene Descartes(法国哲学家笛卡尔)
2005-03-16
Every law has no atom of strength, so far as no public opinion supports it.
若是没有公众舆论的支持,法律是丝毫没有力量的。
-Wendell Phillips(美国废奴运动领袖菲力普斯)
2005-03-15
The years teach much which the days never know.
学问积年而成,而每日不自知。
-Ralph Waldo Emerson(美国思想家埃默森)
2005-03-14
You will neer have what you like until you learn to like what you have.
在学会喜欢你已有的东西以前,你永远不会得到你喜欢的东西。
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人歌德)
2005-03-11
The landscope belongs to the man who looks at it.
风景属于看风景的人。
-Ralph Waldo Emerson(美国思想家爱默生)
2005-03-10
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。
-William Congreve(英国剧作家廉格里夫)
2005-03-09
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to slave.
教育使一个民族容易领导,但是难于驱使;容易管理,却不可能奴役。
-Brougham(英国政治家布罗汉姆)
2005-03-08
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it!
艺术远没有生活重要,但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀!
-Robert Motherwell(美国画家马赦韦尔)
2005-03-07
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
教育造就了一大批人,他们会读书,但是不会区别什么书值得读。
-George Macaulay Trevelyan(英国历史学家特里维廉)
2005-03-04
Tough-minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies.
意志坚强的乐观主义者用"世上无难事"人生观来思考问题,越是遭受悲剧打击,越是表现得坚强。
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古罗马哲学家西尼加)
2005-03-03
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
把痛苦视为生活中最大祸害的人不可能勇敢;把欢乐视为生活中最美妙的人不会自我节制。
-Cicero(古罗马政治家西塞罗)
2005-03-02
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles with sniffles predominating.
人生是由呜咽、抽泣和微笑组成的,而在三者之中,抽泣处于支配地位。
-O. Henry(美国作家欧•亨利)
2005-03-01
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
音乐是唯一不能用来表达卑鄙的或讽刺的事物的语言。
-John Erskine(美国教育家厄斯金)
2005-02-28
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
风流韵事与丑闻是品茶聊天时的最佳话题。
-Henry Fielding(英国作家非尔丁)
2005-02-25
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
你可以把一个人领进大学,但你却无法使他思考。
-Finley Peter Dunne(美国作家邓恩)
2005-02-24
No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法,甚至一条永远适用的法律。
-Thomas Jefferson(美国总统杰斐逊)
2005-02-23
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
正像空容器发出的声音最大,智力最低者最善于唠叨不休。
-Plato(古希腊哲学家柏拉图)
2005-02-22
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.
灾难就像刀子,握住刀柄就可以为我们服务,拿住刀刃则会割破手。
-James Russell Lowell(美国女诗人洛威尔)
2005-02-21
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
好画犹如佳肴,只可意会,不可言传。
-Maurice de Vlaminck(法国画家弗拉曼克)
2005-02-18
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。
-Stendhcl(法国作家司汤达)
2005-02-17
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。
-H.B.Adams(美国历史学家亚当斯)
2005-02-16
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains.
音乐要用心灵去想,用头脑去感觉。
-Victor Hugo(法国作家雨果)
2005-02-14
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
教育最主要的目的,不是教你挣得面包,而是使每一口面包都香甜。
-J. Angell(美国心理学家安吉尔)
2005-02-11
What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
名字有什么关系?把玫瑰花叫做别的名称,它还是照样芳香。
-William Shakespeare(英国剧作家莎士比亚)
2005-02-08
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。
-Durant(美国历史学家杜兰特)
2005-02-07
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了。
-Michel Eyquem Montaigne(法国散文家蒙田)
2005-02-04
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
心理疾病比身体疾病更糟。
-Publius Syrus(叙利亚拉丁语作家西拉士)
2005-02-03
The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.
法律不能使人人平等,但是在法律面前人人是平等的。
-Frederick Pollock(英国法学家波洛克)
2005-02-02
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
愉快有益于人的身体,但只有悲伤才能培养心灵力量。
-Marcel Proust(法国作家普鲁斯特)
2005-02-01
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。
-H.B.Adams(美国历史学家亚当斯)
2005-01-31
In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.
自然界中没有奖赏和惩罚,只有因果报应。
-Horacl Annesley Vachell(美国作家瓦谢尔)
2005-01-28
A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship.
建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。
-John Davision Rockefeller(美国实业家洛克菲勒)
2005-01-27
Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
每个人都受两种教育,一种来自别人,另一种更重要的是来自自己。
-Edward Gibbon(英国历史学家吉朋)
2005-01-26
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
嫉妒者对别人是烦恼,对他们自己却是折磨。
-William Penn(英国海军上将佩恩)
2005-01-21
For evil news rides fast, while good news baits later.
好事不出门,坏事传千里。
-John Milton(英国诗人,弥尔顿)
2005-01-20
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
对于过去不幸的记忆,构成了新的不幸。
-Miguel de Cervantes(西班牙作家,塞万提斯)
2005-01-19
He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure.
谁想在逆境中得到援助,就应在身处顺境时待人宽厚。
-Saki(英国作家萨基)
2005-01-18
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
纯粹的、完全的哀愁和纯粹的、完全的欢乐一样都是不可能的。
-Leo Tolstoy(俄国文学家托尔斯泰)
2005-01-17
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
-George Bernard Shaw(英国剧作家肖伯纳)
2005-01-14
Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古罗马哲学家,西尼加)
2005-01-13
Almost any situation ---good or bad--- is affected by the attitude we bring to.
差不多任何一种处境-----无论是好是坏-----都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古罗马哲学家西尼加)
2005-01-12
Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life.
或许你不能支配自己的工作,但你能够使生活发生转变。
-Alan Loy Mcginnis(英国作家麦金尼斯)
2005-01-11
The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
中文的"危机"分为两个字,一个意味着危险,另外一个意味着机会。
-Burejer(英国作家布瑞杰)
2005-01-10
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。(英国散文家、历史学家,卡莱尔)
-Thomas Carlyle(英国散文家卡莱尔)
2005-01-07
I find life an exciting business ------ and most exciting when it is lived for others.
我发现生活是令人激动的事情,尤其是为别人活着时。
-Helen Keller(美国作家,海伦•凯勒)
2005-01-06
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
年轻人一生中常犯大错误,其中之一就是把爱情太理想化了。
-John Ray(美国科学家雷伊)
2005-01-05
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.
我从不等待情绪的来临。如果你一味等待,就将一事无成。你必须牢记,只有动手才能有所得。
-Pearl Buck(美国作家赛珍珠)
2005-01-04
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
经验是思想之子,思想是行动之子,了解他人不可以书本为据。
-Benjamin Disraeli(英国政治家狄斯雷利)
2005-01-03
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
衡量一个人真正的品质,要看他在知道永远也不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。
-Thomas Bobington Macaulay(英国历史学家麦考莱)
2004-12-31
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
考虑是不要匆忙,但是一旦行动的时刻来到,就要毫不犹豫地投身行动。
-John Albion Andrew(美国废奴运动领导人安德鲁)
2004-12-30
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
-Dan Stanfort(美国实业家斯坦福)
2004-12-29
To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
要使婚姻长久,就需克服自我中心意识。
-George Gordon Byron(英国诗人,拜伦)
2004-12-28
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
我之所有,我之所能,都归功于我天使般的母亲。
-Abraham Lincoln(美国总统林肯)
2004-12-27
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
-Bertrand Russell(英国哲学家罗素)
2004-12-24
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
经验始终是收费高的学校,然而,笨汉非进此学校不可。
-Benjamin Franklin(美国总统富兰克林)
2004-12-23
Follow your own course, and let people talk.
走自己的路,让人家去说吧。
-Alghieri Dante(意大利诗人但丁)
2004-12-22
If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
如果要将事情做好,就得亲自动手。
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(美国诗人朗费罗)
2004-12-21
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
最可怕的事莫过于行动中的无知。
-Desiderius Eramus(荷兰人文主义者伊拉莫斯)
2004-12-20
Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
什么样的人便决定了干什么样的事;同样,干什么样的事也决定了是什么样的人。
-George Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)
2004-12-17
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.
一个只顾自己的人不足以成大器。
-John Ruskin(英国作家罗斯金)
2004-12-16
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多,珍贵得多,这就是识别的能力。
-Robert Half(英国作家哈夫)
2004-12-15
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
事越做越能,人越忙越有空。
-William Hazlitt(英国评论家哈滋里特)
2004-12-14
A man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going.
一个人,正如一个时钟,是以他的行动来定其价值的。
-William Penn(英国海军上将佩恩)
2004-12-13
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人缺乏经验,而有经验的人缺乏想象力。
-Alfred North Whitehead(英国哲学家怀特海)
2004-12-10
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
赢得核战争的方法是确保它永远不会发生。
-Bradley Omar(美国上将奥马尔)
2004-12-09
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
权力越大,滥用职权的危险就越大。
-Burke Edmund(英国政治家埃德蒙)
2004-12-08
If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
如果你只为自己奋斗,只有你一个人是赢家;若为婚姻奋斗,夫妻两人都是赢家。
-Pearsall Paul(美国哲学家保罗)
2004-12-07
When you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.
当你需要知识就像你在水底需要空气时,你准能得到它。
-Socrates(古希腊哲学家苏格拉底)
2004-12-06
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
行为是一面镜子,每个人都把自己的形象显现于其中。
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人歌德)
2004-12-03
It is the nature of a fool to see the faults of others and forget his own.
只看见别人的错误而忘记自己缺点的人是蠢人的本性。
-Cicero(古罗马哲学家西塞罗)
2005-01-25
No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.
除了我们自己以外,没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强、就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。
-B.T. Washington(美国教育家华盛顿)
2005-01-24
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