* Samuel Butler (1835-1902, 英国小说家)
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
生活不是严谨科学,而是一种艺术。
* William Hazlitt (1778-1830, 英国作家与文学评论家)
The more we do, the more we can do.
当做的愈多,能做的也就愈多。
* Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, 前美国第一夫人,民权运动者)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
未来是属于那些相信自己美梦的人。
* Edison 爱迪生
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才是一分灵感加上九十九分的努力。
* Juvenal 朱文诺
A healthy mind is in a healthy body.
有健康的身体才有健全的心灵。
* Sophocles 莎弗克里士(希腊悲剧诗人)
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life--that word is love.
有个字能将我们从生命的重担与苦痛中释放--那个字就是「爱」。
* Condorcet 康德赛
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
享受自己的生活,别和别人比较。
* Horace 赫瑞斯
Well begun is half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
* Jonathan Swift 强纳生‧斯威夫特
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
人人都希望活得久,却没人希望变老。
* Publius Syrus 赛鲁士
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
富贵交朋友,患难见真情。
* Cooke 库克
No beauty is like the beauty of mind.
心灵之美,最美。
* John Clark 约翰‧克拉克
The best fish swim near the bottom.
最好的鱼,潜游水底。(勿锋芒毕露。)
* Mary Ellen Chase 玛莉艾伦切斯
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
孩子们,圣诞节不是一个日期而已,而是心灵的状态。
* Ken Murray 肯‧穆雷
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand
up.
能过著极尽奢华的生活的确不坏,糟的是你永不知道何时奢华将离你而去。
* Fabre 法布雷
Kind words are the music of the world.
亲善之言乃人世的美乐。
* Napoleon 拿破崙
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
「不可能」,在愚人的字典中才找得到。
* Billings 比林斯
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
健康如金钱,失去时才真正知其价值。
* Virgil 维吉儿
Labor conquers everything.
劳动能征服万事。
* H. G. Bohn 波恩
A fault confessed is half redressed.
知错,则已改过一半。
* Lord Chesterfield 洛德‧却斯特菲
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
忠告逆耳,而那些最需要的人却最不喜欢忠告。
* Longfellow 隆菲罗
Enjoy the youth, it will not stay.
享受青春,青春一去不回。
* James Kelly 詹姆斯‧凯利
Confession is good for the soul.
忏悔对灵魂有益。
* Schiller 席勒
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
过分谨慎的人难有成就。
* Decker 戴克
Anger begins in folly and ends in repentance.
愤怒始于愚蠢,止于懊悔。
* W. Wilson 威尔逊
Dare to do right! Dare to be true.
勇于为善!勇于率真!
* Alexander Pope 亚历山大‧波普
To err is human; to forgive, devine.
犯错是人性,宽恕是神性。
* Eleonora Duse 艾略诺拉‧杜斯
The greatest danger in deceiving others is that one will surely end up deceiving one's self.
欺骗他人最大的危险在于最后会连自己的自我都给欺骗了。
* Thomas Fuller 汤玛斯‧傅勒
Gossiping and lying go together.
八卦与谎言形影不离。
* Colton 柯尔顿
Men are born with two eyes but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they
say.
人生而有一双眼一根舌,就是要人们多看少说。
* Samuel Smiles 山姆‧斯迈尔斯
A man is known by the company he keeps.
观其友,知其行。
* J.F. Kennedy 甘迺迪
Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
不要问国家能为你做什麽,要问你能为国家做些什麽。
* Emerson 爱默生
The first wealth is health.
首要之富为健康。
* Richard Steels 理查‧斯第尔斯
Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
各人命运各自掌控。
* Goethe 歌德
Wisdom is only found in truth.
唯有真理中方能寻得智慧。
* Harold Macmillan 哈洛德‧麦克米伦
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
太多人沉醉于过去种种,必须将过去作为跳板,而不是当作舒适的沙发。
* Lord Acton 洛德艾克顿
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
权力让人腐化,绝对的权力,绝对的腐化。
* Samuel Butler
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
除了人以外,所有的动物都知道生活的要事就是享受生活。
* Mark Twain 马克吐温
Everybody is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
人人都是月亮,各有其永不示人的黑暗面。
* John Ruskin 约翰拉斯金
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活无目标,有如航行无罗盘。