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2007年4月18日星期三

名人名言

TIME
1. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -Hector Berlioz
时间是位伟大的导师,但不幸的是时间消蚀每一个学生的生命。
-H·白辽士(1803-1869,法国作曲家)
2. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
好好利用你的空闲时间。它们就象未经加工的宝石,若丢弃了,其价值将永远无从知道;若进行精雕细琢,它们就会成为有价值的人生中最闪亮的宝石。
-R·W·爱默生(1803-1882,美国诗人、作家、哲学家)
3. Today’s Today, Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. -Euripides
今天就是今天,明天我们或许已经消失于永恒之中。
-欧里庇得斯(486-406B.C.,古希腊三大悲剧家之一)
4. Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. -Bil Keane
昨天已成过去,明天还未到来,今天则是上帝所赐。这就是为什么今天又被称为礼物(英语中,present又意为现在)。 -比·可恩
5. While we are postponing, life speeds by
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
在我们推延时间时,生命正飞逝而去。
-L·A·塞内加(4B.C.-A.D.65,罗马哲学家、剧作家)
6. Time drops in decay, like a candle burnt out.
-William Butler Yeats
蜡烛慢慢燃尽,时光渐渐消逝。
-W·B·叶芝(1865-1939,爱尔兰诗人、剧作家)
7. Time is the riches of mankind---the entire riches of mankind for any riches are a product from the combination of time and actions. -Balzac
时间是人类的财富—全部的财富……因为任何财富都是时间和行动的产物。 -巴尔扎克(1799-1850,法国作家)
8. Time is like water in a sponge. When you sqeeze, water will ooze out. -Lu Xun
时间,就像海绵里的水,只要愿挤,总还是有的。 -鲁迅
9. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
请铭记在心:每一天都是一年中最好的日子。
-R·W·爱默生(1803-1882,美国诗人、作家、哲学家)
10. No misery is comparable to the loss of time.
-Ivan Tergenev
没有比失去时间更不幸的了。 -屠格涅夫(俄国作家)


ADVICE
1. You have to forget about what other people say, when you are supposed to die, or when you are supposed to be loving. You have to forget all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
-Jimi Hendrix
当你将要离开人世或要恋爱时,得把别人的话抛诸脑后。全都忘了吧。忘我地走下去。忘我的境界就象走进天堂一样。 -J泛嗬锟?1942-970)
2. Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and it抯 a pleasant thing to do.
-George Bernard Shaw
建议就象亲吻,不费丝毫却令人愉快。
-萧伯纳(1856?950,英国剧作家)
3. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
-de la Grange
征求意见时通常是在寻求同谋。 -格兰吉
4. The worst man often gives the best advice. -Liberty Hyde Bailey
最坏的人经常提最好的建议。
-L稨繁蠢?858-1954,美国植物学家、作家)
5. He who won抰 be counseled can抰 be helped. -Unknown
不纳人言,难以得助。 -无名氏
6. Advice is least heeded when most needed. -Anonymous
意见,在最有需要的时候最不受重视。 -匿名氏


Wealth
1. Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
-Somerset Maugham
金钱就象第六感一样,没有它你就无法使用其它五种感官。
-S·毛姆(1874-1965,英国小说家、戏剧家)
2. I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time. -Hilaire Belloc
对爱情我已厌倦,重复的韵律令我更生倦意,唯有财富能够始终给予我快乐。 -H·贝洛克(1870-1953,英国作家)
3. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. -Unknown
多余的财富只能买多余的东西,金钱买不到任何灵魂的必需品。
—无名氏
4. The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. -Frank Hubbard
使财富加倍的安全之道是把钱折叠一次,再把它放进口袋里。
-富兰克·胡巴德
5. If money be not your servant, it will be your master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. -Francis Bacon
如果金钱不是你的奴仆,它便将成为你的主人。一个贪婪的人,与其说他拥有财富,还不如说财富拥有他。
-F·培根(1561-1626,英国哲学家、作家)
6. A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character --- how he makes it and how he spends it.
  —Unknown
检验一个人品格的决定性方式是看他对金钱的处理-他是如何赚钱的,又如何花钱的。                    —无名氏
7. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
-Andrew Carnegie
只有使他人富有,自己才会富有。
-A·卡内基(1835-1919,美国钢铁工业家、慈善家)
8. The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them. -A. R. Rivarol
财富对某些人做的唯一一件事就是让他们对失去财富提心吊胆。
-A. R. 里瓦罗尔
9. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned. - Kozlay
金钱是无底的海洋,荣誉、良心和真理都可能淹没其中。
-克兹雷
10. Content and riches seldom meet together. Riches take thou, contentment I had rather. - Benjamin Franklin
财富与满足很少能同时拥有。拿走财富吧,我宁愿只要满足。
- B·富兰克林(1706—1790,美国政治家、作家、科学家)


LOVE
1. It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon
爱情与理智不可兼得。
-F·培根(1561-1626,英国哲学家、作家)
2. One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. -Aphra Behn
与其平平淡淡的过一生,不如投入的爱一次,哪怕是短暂的一小时。
—本·爱弗拉
3. If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
-Anonymous
如果有什么比被爱更幸福,那就是去爱。 -佚名
4. Love is beauty. -John Grenfell Crawford
爱即美。 - J·G·克劳福德(1910?,澳大利亚经济学家)
5. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
一旦涉及爱情,人人都成了诗人。
-柏拉图(427?-347B.C.,希腊哲学家)
6. Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. -Virgil
爱征服一切;让我们也向爱顶礼膜拜吧。
-维吉尔(70-19B.C.,古罗马诗人)
7. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-William Shakespeare
真爱的历程从不平坦。
-W·莎士比亚(1564-1616,英国剧作家、诗人)
8. One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. -Sophocles
有一个词把我们从生活的重负和痛苦中解脱出来,那就是爱。
-索福克勒斯(496—406B.C.,希腊悲剧作家)
9. Love can make the wisest of men turn into small-minded idiots. And idiots into the best lovers. -Timothy Lee Fields
爱情把智者变成思想狭隘的傻瓜,把傻瓜变成最伟大的爱人。
—T L 费尔基
10. Love is like a rose. It’s all good-smelling, but if you hold it too tight, it can stab you, make you bleed, and scar you for life.
-Alfonso Aguila
爱情如同玫瑰,芳香四溢,却不可紧握。它会刺伤你,让你流血,并留下一生的创伤。 —A 安古拉
11. Old love rusts not. -German Proverb
昔日的爱永不褪色。 -德国谚语
12. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. -Louis Ginsberg
爱是一种不可抗拒的渴望。 -L·金茨伯格
13. Love makes the world go round. -Charles Dickens
爱推动世界运转。 -C·狄更斯(1812—1870,英国小说家)


Aim and Ideal

1. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller
当人有飞的渴望时,他绝不会满足于爬。
-H·凯勒(1880-1968,美国作家)
2. There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
-Henry Van Dyke
比昂立于世界之巅更高尚的追求,就是蹲下来把人类再抬高一点。
-亨利·凡·戴克
3. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -Mark Twain
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想失去时,你可能依然活着,却虽生犹死。
-马克·吐温(1835-1910,美国小说家,原名Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
4. No wind favors him who has no destined port.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
没有目的港口就没有所谓的顺风归航。
-M·E·蒙泰因(1533-11592,法国散文家)
5. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want. -Ben Stein
想从生活中得到什么,第一步是决定想要什么。 -本·斯坦
6. A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit.
-Joe. L. Griffith
目标只不过是受时间限制的梦想。 -乔·L·格里弗斯
7. Keep your eye on the road, and use the rearview mirror only to avoid trouble. -Daniel Meacham
眼睛要盯着前方的路面,仅用后视镜来避免麻烦。
-丹尼尔·米切姆
8. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. -Winston Churchill
看得太远是一个错误。因为我们一次只能应付命运锁链中的一环。
-W·丘吉尔(1874-1965,英国作家、首相1940-1945,1951-1955)
9. Ideals are like the stars ?we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. -Carl Schurz
理想好像天上的星星,虽不能摘到,但我们犹如水手,可借它来指引航向。
- C·舒尔兹(1829-1906,美国律师、将军、政治家)
10. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
-Neil Armstrong
这虽是个人迈出的一小步,却是整个人类跨出的一大步。
-N·阿姆斯壮(1930-,美国太空人,为第一位登陆月球者)


Books
1. Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
-Charles Caleb Colton
有些人为思考而读书,这种人少有;有些人为写作而读书,这种人常见;有些人为搜集谈资而读书,这种人占大多数。
-C·C·科尔顿(1780-1832,英国作家)
2. Reading good books is like having a conversation with the highly worthy persons of the past who wrote them; indeed, it is like having a prepared conversation in which those persons disclose to us only their best thinking. -Rene Descartes
读好书就像同过去那些威望极高的著书者进行交谈;的确,那就像是在进行一次有准备的谈话,在这种谈话中,作者们只向我们吐露他们的最佳见解。 -R·笛卡尔(1596-1650,法国哲学家、数学家)
3. Books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
-Amy Lowell
书不仅仅是书,它们是过去时代的生活与核心,是人们生活、工作和死亡的原因,是他们生命的本质和精华。
-A·洛威尔(1874-1925,美国诗人、批评家)
4. A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so; it gives a relish and facility for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.
-Abraham Lincoln
读书的能力和兴趣,使我们有机会了解别人已经发现的一切。这是了解已解决问题的一把钥匙。不仅如此,它还提供一种趣味和便利,使我们能够成功地探讨那些尚未解决的问题。
-A·林肯(1809-1865,美国前总统1861-1865)
5. Books which teach and speak of whatever is highest and best are equally sacred, whatever be the tongue in which they are written, or the nation to which they belong. -Benedict de Spinoza
无论用什么语言写成,无论属于哪个民族,那些讲授最高尚、最美好事物的书籍都是同样神圣的。
-B·斯宾诺莎(1632-1677,荷兰哲学家)
6. Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst. -Ford Madox Ford
只有两类书受到普遍欢迎:最最好的和最差劲的。
-F·M·福特(1873-1939,英国作家)
7. 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.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
渴望求识的人需要读书,疲劳的人也需要有本书读读;这两种人对书的要求大相径庭。 -G·K·切斯特顿(1874-1936,英国作家)
8. Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
-Jothann Von Goethe
有些书似乎并不是要教给我们些什么,而只是想让我们知道作者懂得些东西。 -约森·凡·歌德(1749—1832,德国诗人、作家)
9. He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
? -Isaac Borrow
嗜好书的人绝不会缺少忠实的朋友、有益的顾问、愉快的伴侣和有效的慰藉。 -伊沙克·博罗
10. Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
-John Ruskin
人生短促,其中安静的时间更是少之又少;我们不该浪费这些宝贵的时间去读没有价值的书。
? -约翰·罗斯金(1819—1900,英国作家、批评家)


LIFE AND DEATH
1. Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. -Robert F. Bennett
生活是你作出的所有选择的总和,无论是有意识的,还是无意识的。如果你能控制选择这一过程,你就能主宰自己的生活。你会成为自己的主人,并享受由此带来的自由。 -R·内贝特
2. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. -A. Sachs
死亡比生活更普遍;人皆有死,但并不是每个人都活过。
-A·萨克斯
3. Death—the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. -Walter Scott
死亡—最后一觉?不,死亡是最终的觉醒。
-W·司各特(1771-1832,苏格兰小说家、诗人)
4. I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty. -E.S. Hoper
沉睡中,我梦见生活是美妙的,醒来后,我发觉生活是种责任。 -E·S·霍珀(1882-1967,美国画家)
5. When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? - Sydney J. Harris
当听到别人叹息生活艰难的时候,我总忍不住要问:“和什么比?” -S·哈利斯
6. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
人生要么是大胆的冒险,要么就什么都不是。安全至多不过是种迷信。它不存在自然界中。 - H·凯勒(1880-1968,美国作家)
7. If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. - Martin L. King, Jr.
如果一个人还未找到值得他为之献身的东西,他就不必活着。 -马丁·路德·金(1929-1968,美国传教士、民权领袖)
8. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice -Unknown
当你呱呱坠地时,世界为之欣喜……过好你的一生吧,这样,当你死去时,世界将为你痛哭,而你心中充满喜悦。棗无名氏
9. The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life. -William James
充分利用生命,追求不受生命约束的事物。
-W·詹姆斯(1842-1910,美国哲学家、心理学家)
10. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. -William Osler
我们存在是为了尽我们所能来丰富生活,而不是从生活中索取什么。 -W·奥斯勒(1849-1919,加拿大医生)
11. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. -Jean de La Bruy
生活,对感受者来说是一出悲剧,对思考者则是一出喜剧。J 布努
12. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwing Wittgenstein
我不知道为什么我们会生活在这世上,但我可以肯定我们决不是来享乐的。 -L·维根斯坦(1889-1951,英国哲学家)
13. Life is a great surprise. I don’t see why death should not be an even greater one. -Vladimir Nabokov
生活本是个巨大的惊喜,那么死亡为什么就不该是个更大的惊喜呢? -V·纳巴科夫(1899-1977,美国小说家、诗人)
14. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. -Theodore Roosevelt
对死亡无所畏惧的人,才适合活着。一味逃避生活的乐趣和责任的人则不适合去死。
-T·罗斯福(1858-1919,美国前总统1901-1903)
15. Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
-Publilius Syrus
人生短暂,但人生的不幸使其显得漫长。
-P·西拉士(生活于公元前一世纪,拉丁剧作家)


PATIENCE
1. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
忍耐是痛苦的,但忍耐的果实是甜蜜的。
-J-J·卢梭(1712-1778,法国启蒙思想家)
2. Genius is eternal patience. -Michelangelo Buonarroti
天才就是永恒的耐心。 -米开朗基罗((1475-1564,意大利文艺复兴盛期雕塑家、画家、建筑师、诗人)
3. Patience is the remedy for every trouble. - Plato
耐心是医治一切麻烦的良药。 -柏拉图(427-347B.C.,希腊哲学家)
4. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
-Friedrich Schiller
有耐心把简单的事情办得完美无缺的人才能获得轻易解决复杂事情的能力。 -F·席勒(1759-1805,德国诗人、剧作家)
5. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them —every day begin the task anew. -Unknown
对所有的事情都要有耐心,但主要是对自己有耐心。不要因你的不足丧失勇气,而应立即着手纠正—每天都重新开始这项工作。 -无名氏
6. Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
-Comte de Buffon
永远不要以为上帝的延迟就是上帝的拒绝。坚持、坚持、再坚持。忍耐就是天才。 -布丰(1701-1788,法国博物学家、作家)
7. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. -Dutch proverb
一点耐心胜过一堆才智。 -荷兰谚语


Relationships
1. The art of being a good guest is knowing when to leave.
—Unknown
作客的艺术就是知道什么时候离开。 —无名氏
2. Relationships are not formed but forged. —Unknown
关系不是形成的,关系是逐渐培养出来的。 —无名氏
3. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of the continent, a part of the main.
-John Donne
没有人是一座孤岛,所有人都是大陆的一部分,群体中的一员。
-J·多恩(1572—1631,英国诗人、牧师)
4. A man at peace with himself can live peacefully with others. —Unknown
心平气和的人能与他人和平相处。 —无名氏
5. Each relationship nurtures a strength or a weakness within you.
—Unknown
关系要么予人以力量,要么使人软弱。 —无名氏
6. When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart. -Donna Reed
对待自己要用头脑,对待他人要用心。 - 唐纳·瑞德
7. It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship. —Unknown
每个人的独特之处,给彼此之间的关系带来新鲜与活力。 —无名氏
8. A Short Course in Human Relations: The Six Most Important Words: I admit I made a mistake.?The Five Most Important Words: You did a good job.?The Four Most Important Words: What is your opinion??The Three Most Important Words: If you please.?The Two Most Important Words: Thank you. The Most Important Word: We. The Least Important Word:I .? - Unknown
人际关系的一堂小课:最重要的六个字:“我承认我错了。” 最重要的五个字:“你做得不错。” 最重要的四个字:“你认为呢?” 最重要的三个字:“可以吗?” 最重要的两个字:“谢谢。” 最重要的字:“我们” 最不重要的字:“我”。 —无名氏
9. The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never a triviality as if it were a disaster.
-Quentin Crisp
建立良好关系的公式非常简单:轻描淡写地处理灾难性的事件,而且决不要对一些小事大惊小怪。
-昆廷·克里斯普
10. If you want to get along with people, pretend you never knew whatever they tell you. —Unknown
要与人友好相处,就得假装不明白他们告诉你的一切。 —无名氏


Youth
and Age
1. At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。
- B·富兰克林(1706—1790,美国政治家、作家、科学家)
2. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -George Buck
年纪越大我就越不相信那句教条:年龄带给人智慧。
-乔治·巴克
3. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
当考虑到年轻所特有的问题时,年老也就不成为一件糟糕的事了。
-M·切华利(1888-1972,法国表演家)
4. Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. -Pope John XXIII
人如酒-有些会转变成醋,但出类拔萃者会随着年月增长而日渐香醇。
-罗马教皇约翰二十三世(1881-1963,任期1958-1963)
5. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
-John Blythe Barrymore
当遗憾替代梦想的时候,人开始变老。
-J·B·巴瑞莫(1882-1942,美国演员)
6. There are three ages of man: young, middle age, and don’t be look good. -Tommy Trinder
人的一生有三个年龄段:青年,中年,以及气色不好。
-汤米·特瑞德
7. Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
  -Benjamin Disraeli
年轻时常犯错误,中年时努力奋斗,老年则后悔连连。
-B·迪斯累利(1804-1881,英国政治家、作家、首相1868,1874-1880)
8. If youth knew, if age could. -Henri Estienne
少时不明事理,老来力不从心。
-H·伊斯蒂尼(约1470-1520,法国出版商)
9. When we sighing for the loss of our past youth, which will return no more, let us reflect that decrepitude will come, when we shall regret the mature age we have reached and do not sufficiently value. -La Bruyere
当我们为一去不复返的青春叹息时,我们应该考虑将来的衰老,不要到那时再为没有珍惜壮年而悔恨。 -拉·布吕耶尔
10. The young always have the same problem -how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
-Quentin Crisp
年轻人都会受到同一个问题的困扰- 怎样在反抗的同时又保持顺从。这个问题现在得到了解决,他们在反抗父母,同时又相互模仿。
-昆士·克里斯普

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