2011年8月1日星期一

English saying good words

*    Samuel Butler (1835-1902, 英國小說家)
   Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
   生活不是嚴謹科學,而是一種藝術。

*    William Hazlitt (1778-1830, 英國作家與文學評論家)
   The more we do, the more we can do.
   當做的愈多,能做的也就愈多。

*    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, 前美國第一夫人,民權運動者)
   The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
   未來是屬於那些相信自己美夢的人。

*    Edison 愛迪生
   Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
   天才是一分靈感加上九十九分的努力。

* Juvenal 朱文諾
   A healthy mind is in a healthy body.
   有健康的身體才有健全的心靈。

* Sophocles 莎弗克里士(希臘悲劇詩人)
   One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life--that word is love.
   有個字能將我們從生命的重擔與苦痛中釋放--那個字就是「愛」。

* Condorcet 康德賽
   Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
   享受自己的生活,別和別人比較。

* Horace 赫瑞斯
   Well begun is half done.
   好的開始是成功的一半。

* Jonathan Swift 強納生‧斯威夫特
   Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
   人人都希望活得久,卻沒人希望變老。

* Publius Syrus 賽魯士
   Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
   富貴交朋友,患難見真情。

* Cooke 庫克
   No beauty is like the beauty of mind.
   心靈之美,最美。

* John Clark 約翰‧克拉克
   The best fish swim near the bottom.
   最好的魚,潛游水底。(勿鋒芒畢露。)  

* Mary Ellen Chase 瑪莉艾倫切斯
   Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
   孩子們,聖誕節不是一個日期而已,而是心靈的狀態。

* 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.
   能過著極盡奢華的生活的確不壞,糟的是你永不知道何時奢華將離你而去。
* Fabre 法布雷
   Kind words are the music of the world.
   親善之言乃人世的美樂。

* 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.
   健康如金錢,失去時才真正知其價值。
 * Virgil 維吉兒
   Labor conquers everything.
   勞動能征服萬事。

* H. G. Bohn 波恩
   A fault confessed is half redressed.
   知錯,則已改過一半。

* Lord Chesterfield 洛德‧卻斯特菲
   Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
   忠告逆耳,而那些最需要的人卻最不喜歡忠告。

* Longfellow 隆菲羅
   Enjoy the youth, it will not stay.
   享受青春,青春一去不回。

* James Kelly 詹姆斯‧凱利
   Confession is good for the soul.
   懺悔對靈魂有益。

* Schiller 席勒
   He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
   過分謹慎的人難有成就。

* Decker 戴克
   Anger begins in folly and ends in repentance.
   憤怒始於愚蠢,止於懊悔。

* W. Wilson 威爾遜
   Dare to do right! Dare to be true.
   勇於為善!勇於率真!

*    Alexander Pope 亞歷山大‧波普
   To err is human; to forgive, devine.
   犯錯是人性,寬恕是神性。

* Eleonora Duse 艾略諾拉‧杜斯
   The greatest danger in deceiving others is that one will surely end up deceiving one's self.
   欺騙他人最大的危險在於最後會連自己的自我都給欺騙了。

* Thomas Fuller 湯瑪斯‧傅勒
   Gossiping and lying go together.
   八卦與謊言形影不離。

* Colton 柯爾頓
   Men are born with two eyes but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they  
   say.
人生而有一雙眼一根舌,就是要人們多看少說。

* Samuel Smiles 山姆‧斯邁爾斯
   A man is known by the company he keeps.
  
觀其友,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.不要問國家能為你做什麼,要問你能為國家做些什麼。

* Emerson 愛默生
The first wealth is health.首要之富為健康。

* Richard Steels 理查‧斯第爾斯
Every man is the maker of his own fortune.各人命運各自掌控。

* Goethe 歌德
Wisdom is only found in truth.
唯有真理中方能尋得智慧。

* Harold Macmillan 哈洛德‧麥克米倫
   Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
  
太多人沉醉於過去種種,必須將過去作為跳板,而不是當作舒適的沙發。

 * Lord Acton 洛德艾克頓
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
權力讓人腐化,絕對的權力,絕對的腐化。

* Samuel Butler
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
除了人以外,所有的動物都知道生活的要事就是享受生活。  

* Mark Twain 馬克吐溫
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 約翰拉斯金
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活無目標,有如航行無羅盤。  

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