1. The proper function of man is to live, but not to exist. —Jack London 杰克?伦敦
人应该生活,而非单纯生存。
2. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. —Caxton 卡克斯顿
该说话时说话,该沉默时沉默。
3. The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm. —H. W. Arnold 阿诺德
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
4. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. —Hemingway 海明威
在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的,但在夜晚就是另外一回事。
5. To err is human, to forgive, divine. —Pope
人皆犯错,你能原谅别人,你就是圣人。
6. There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. —Colleen McCullough 科林?麦卡洛
心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合,虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。
7. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. —Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡?王尔德
在这个世界上只有两种悲剧:一种是得不到自己想要的东西,另一种是得到了。
8. Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. —Emerson 爱默生
激情虽难以驾驭,却是种强大的动力。
9. Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles. —Joseph Addison 约瑟夫?艾迪生
把你的名字刻在人们的心里,而不是大理石上。
10. What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. —Henrik Ibsen 易卜生
一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单:做自己。
11. We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love. —A. L. Huxley赫胥黎
我们只能爱我们理解的东西,却永远也不能彻底理解我们不爱的东西。
12. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form. —Emerson 爱默生
美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋,美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。
13. Man is,Properly speaking, based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope. —Thomas Caarlyle 托马斯?卡莱尔
恰当地说,人是因希望活着的,除了希望,一无所有。
14. Man must look just as ridiculous to the crab when it sees him walk forward. —G. C. Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格
人类在螃蟹看来一定也是很好笑的,因为人类居然是向前走的。
15. All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. —Plutarch 普卢塔克
所有人在醒着的时候都是置身于同一个世界,但在睡着后,却都置身在自己的世界。
16. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody. —Mark Twain 马克?吐温
每个人都是月球,有其从不展示给人看的黑暗面。
17. As long as any man exists, there is some need of him; let him fight for his own. —Cicero 西塞罗
只要人生存,就有一些需要,让他为自己去奋斗吧。
18. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. —Franklin D. Roosevelt 富兰克林
重复并不能把谎言变成真理。
19. The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. —Voltaire 伏尔泰
人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走的东西,却逃避追逐他的东西。 |