英文名言佳句
* 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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