事情只有经历了才会真真切切——即使是格言，在你的人生验证了它之前，它对你来说也不是什么格言。

--约翰·济慈

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced——Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

--John Keats

平安与健康

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健康是人生第一财富。

--美国思想家 爱默生

The first wealth is health.

心情愉快使人健康，无论是身体或心灵上的。

--约瑟夫·爱迪生

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

--Joseph Addison

酒精是一种麻醉药，让我们感受不到生活这场手术的痛苦。

--萧伯纳

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

--George Bernard Shaw

品德与言行

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你希望别人如何对待你，你就如何对待别人。

--古希腊寓言作家 伊索

Treat other people as you hope they will treat you.

--Aesop, Ancient Greek fable writer

我所知道的最大的乐趣是暗中做好事又被人偶然发现。

--英国散文家查尔斯·兰姆

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

--Charles Lamb, British essayist

先考虑别人的权益再想自己的感受, 先考虑别人的感受再想自己的权利。

--篮球教练 约翰·伍登

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings and the feelings of others before your own rights.

--John Wooden, Basketball coach

不要吝惜你的溢美之辞，尤其是对那些不在场的人们。

--歌德

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

原谅就是被人踩了一脚的丁香花，在人的鞋底留下的芳香。

--马克·吐温

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

--Mark Twain

从内心深处发出的一声“不”好过于为了取悦甚至是为了避免麻烦而说出的一声“是”。

--莫罕达斯·甘地

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

--Mohandas Gandhi

上帝给予的伤口也是良药，罪恶给予的亲吻也会致命。

--威廉·古诺

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

--William Gurnal

许多人在刀剑面前倒下，更多人在闲言闲语中倒下。

--《圣经：传道书》

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen the tongue.

--Bible: Ecclesiasticus

一个骗子即使在说真话时，旁人也不会相信。

--古希腊寓言作家 伊索

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

--Aesop, Ancient Greek fable writer

你可以在一时蒙骗所有人, 也可以在长时间蒙骗一些人, 但不可能在长时间蒙骗所有人。

--美国前总统 亚伯拉罕·林肯

You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

--Abraham Lincoln, American former president

在相当长的时间内，用一副面具对自己，另一副面具对别人，而且从来不混乱，这是没有人能做到的。

--纳撒尼尔·霍桑（《红字》）

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

不要轻率地使用时间或者言辞，因为两者都不可能重来。

--佚名

Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

对于一般人来说，谦虚只是诚实的表现；而天才的谦虚，就是一种虚伪。

--叔本华（《附录与补遗》）

For people of average ability, modesty is merely candor；but for men of great talent, it is hypocrisy.

--Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

愤怒是一种酸性的液体，他腐蚀盛装它的容器甚于被其泼到的物品。

--马克·吐温

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

--Mark Twain

志向与意志

不要试图去做一位成功者, 宁可做一位有价值的人。

--美国科学家 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

--Albert Einstein, American scientist

有志者, 事竟成。

--美国发明家 托马斯·爱迪生

Where there is a will, there is a way.

--Thomas Edison, American inventor

走自己的路，让别人去说吧。

--意大利诗人 但丁

Follow your own course, and let people talk.

最悲惨的人只有一个习惯，就是摇摆不定。

--威廉·詹姆斯

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

--William James, The Principles of Psychology

那些不会激励自己的人，即使拥有再高的天赋，也只能忍受平庸的人生。

--安德鲁·卡内基

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

--Andrew Carnegie

通向地狱的道路是平缓的——踩上去很柔软，没有急转弯，没有里程碑，也没有路标。

--C. S.刘易斯（《魔鬼书信集》）

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one——the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

--C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

无聊：对欲望的欲望。

--列夫·托尔斯泰

Boredom: the desire for desires.

--Leo Tolstoy

好学与上进

要像你明天会死去一样地活着, 要像你永远会活着一样地学习。

--莫罕达斯·甘地

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

--Mohandas Gandhi

美德是一位天使，但她是盲目的，必须要由知识带路才能到达目的地。

--霍瑞斯·曼（《给年轻人的一些建议》）

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

--Horace Mann, Thoughts for a Young Man

不要害怕去学习，因为知识是没有重量的，并且总是能够容易随身携带的财富。

--佚名

Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

学问浅薄, 如履薄冰。

--英国诗人 亚历山大·蒲柏

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

--Alexander Pope, British poet

历史使人明智; 诗词使人灵秀; 数学使人周密; 自然哲学使人深刻; 伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辩。

--英国哲学家、散文家 弗朗西斯·培根

Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

--Francis Bacon, British philosopher and essayist

敞开心胸学习新的东西, 即使它与你昨天学到的相矛盾。

--脱口秀主持人 艾伦·狄珍妮

Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

--Ellen Degeneres, Talk-show host

学而不思, 犹如食而不化。

--英国政治家 埃德蒙·伯克

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

--Edmund Burke, British statesman

学习对于头脑, 如同食物对于身体一样不可缺少。

--古罗马政治家、演说家 马库斯·西塞罗

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food for the body.

--Marcus Cicero, Ancient Roman statesman and orator

阅读对于思想来说，就像是锻炼之对于身体。

--理查德·斯蒂尔

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

--Richard Steele

所有的书都能归为两类：一时之书与永久之书。

--约翰·拉斯金，《芝麻与百合》

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

--John Ruskin, 1819-1900, Sesame and Lilies

我认为我们应该读的是那些会刺痛我们的书……我们需要那些像灾难一样打击我们，让我们深深的痛苦的书，像失去了所爱之人一样，像被驱逐到荒无人烟的深林，像自我毁灭一样让我们痛苦的书。一本书应该像斧头一样劈开我们内心冰冻的水面。

--弗兰兹·卡夫卡

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us … We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

--Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollark

在这个充满视觉与听觉享受的世界里，希望文字对你仍然充满意义与魔力。

--高德弗里·史密斯 写给新外孙的信

In a world full of audio and visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

--Godfrey Smith, in a letter to a new grandchild

读万卷书不如行万里路。

--中国谚语

Traveling thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books.

--Chinese Proverb

心态与态度

悲观者埋怨刮风；乐观者静候风变；现实者调整风帆。

--英国作家、诗人 王尔德

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails.

悲观者在每一次机遇中所看见的都是困难, 乐观者在每一次困难中所看见的都是机遇。

--英国前首相 温斯顿·丘吉尔

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

--Winston Churchill, British former prime minister

如果一个人是清洁工，他就应该像米开朗琪罗作画、贝多芬作曲或是莎士比亚作诗一样地去扫马路。他应该干得如此得好，以致于神灵和人们都驻足说道：这里曾经有一位优秀的清洁工，他的工作做得非常出色。

--马丁·路德金

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

--Martin Luther King, Jr

主动性是指在没有人告诉你的情况下去做合适的事情。

--美国作家 艾尔伯特·哈伯德

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

--Elbert Hubbard, American writer

没有热情，决不能成就大事。

--美国作家、思想家、诗人 爱默生

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

把握此刻并享受这些小事情，有一天，你回过头来可能会发现，其实这些都是大事情。

--罗伯特·布洛尔特

Seize the moment and enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

正确地认识你的麻烦，它就成了一场冒险。如果你不能正视一场冒险，它就变成了一堆麻烦。

--G. K. 切斯特顿

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

--G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

忧虑是麻烦出现前人们需要付出的代价。

--牧师 威廉·英格

Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

--William Inge, Priest

爱情的反面不是憎恨，而是无动于衷。

艺术的反面不是丑陋，而是无动于衷。

信念的反面不是谬论，而是无动于衷。

生命的反面不是死亡，而是无动于衷。

--埃利·威瑟尔

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

--Elie Wiesel

对善行的忽视不亚于犯下罪行。

--普鲁塔克

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

--Plutarch

明理与智慧

不要理睬零星的枪声, 但如果枪声来自多个方向就该注意了。就像有人曾经说过：  “一个人叫你驴子, 别理他; 两个人叫你驴子, 检查一下蹄印; 三个人叫你驴子,  还是买一副鞍座来吧。”

--马歇尔·谢利

Solitary shots should be ignored, but when they come from several directions, it's time to pay attention. As someone once said, “If one calls you a donkey, ignore him. If two call you a donkey, check for hoof prints. If three call you a donkey, get a saddle.”

--Marshall Shelley

在这个世界上，随大流是件容易的事；只按自己的想法离世隐居也很容易；但是了不起的人能够身处人群却保持着独立的思想。

--爱默生，《论自助》

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

--Emerson, Self-Reliance

理智只会听从自己的指挥，而无知则唯命是从。

--托马斯·潘恩

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

--Thomas Paine

既懂得善良，也懂得罪恶，我们才能自由与明智地做出正确的选择。

--海伦·凯勒

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

--Helen Keller, My Religion

反对的声音是不可或缺的。一个好的政治家，如同其他通晓事理的人一样，总是从他的反对者而非热心支持者那里学到更多东西。

--沃尔特·李普曼

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.

--Walter Lippmann, Atlantic Monthly

傻瓜们总是自我奉承，而聪明人也总会奉承傻瓜。

--爱德华·布尔沃-利顿

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

合理安排时间就是节约时间。

--英国哲学家 培根

To choose time is to save time.

时间里蕴藏着机会，而机会里面挖掘不出时间。

--希波克拉底

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

--Hippocrates，Precepts

照看好你的每一便士，英镑自然就不用你管了（小事留意，大事顺利）。

--威廉·朗德士

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

--William Lowndes

我不喜欢格言……他们以偏概全；每句格言都有与之相反的一句，不论你怎样做，都有支持你的一句。

--阿尔弗雷德·德·缪塞

I am not fond of aphorisms…they are one-size-fits-all; each has its opposite, and whatever line of conduct you follow, there is always one to back you up.

--Alfred de Musset, Emmeline

人性与心理

不要忘记，一个人最大的情感需求是得到赏识。

--佚名

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

适时地给予赞美是非常有益的习惯，它的好处无法估量。

--洛丽泰·扬

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

--Loretta Young

爱你的邻居，但不要拆掉你的篱笆。

--美国政治家 本杰明·富兰克林

Love you neighbor, yet don't pull down your hedge.

--Benjamin Franklin, American statesman

人性只有在书本中才创造了光荣、美丽、真理、知识、美德以及永恒的爱情。

--萧伯纳

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

--George Bernard Shaw

一个人从事任何专业或职业所要付出的代价就是要了解这个领域丑陋的一面。

--詹姆斯·鲍德温

The price one pays for pursuing any profession，or calling，is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

--James Baldwin

奇怪得很, 人们在经历厄运的时候，总会清晰地回忆起已经逝去的快乐时光，但是在得意的时候, 对厄运时光只保有一种淡漠而不完全的记忆。

--德国哲学家 亚瑟·叔本华

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

--Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

人就像绵羊，一群总比单独一只更容易指使。

--理查德·惠特利

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

--Richard Whately

疯狂很少发生在个人身上——更多发生在一群人身上，比如一个政党、一个国家甚至一个时代，这是规律。

--尼采

Madness is rare in individuals——but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

--Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

你要么就慷慨的对待他人，要么就彻底毁掉他们。因为人们总是对小过节有仇必报，而沉重的伤害会使他们无力报复。

--马基雅弗里，《君主论》

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries——for heavy ones they cannot.

--Machiavelli, The Prince 

如果善行背后的动机能够被别人看穿，我们会经常感到羞愧。

--拉罗什福科（《箴言集》）

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

--La Rochefoucauld, Maximes

你有没有发现，开车比你慢的人总是个傻瓜，开车比你快的人就是个疯子？

--乔治·卡林

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

--George Carlin

一个人不是因为偷窃马匹，是为了马匹不再被偷走而被绞死。

--哈利法克斯勋爵

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

--Lord Halifax

结交与友谊

比起清贫的日子，友谊在功成名就的富足生活中要经受更大的考验。

--巴瑞·哈姆弗莱斯

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

--Barry Humphries

真正的朋友不在乎你的失败，而且能够容忍你的成功。

--道格·拉森

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

--Doug Larson

真正的恐怖是，你一早醒来，发现你的高中同学在统治这个国家。

--库尔特·冯内古特

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

--Kurt Vonnegut

在生活富足的时候，朋友们会认清我们；在生活贫困的时候，我们会认清朋友们。

--约翰·车尔顿·科林斯

In prosperity, our friends know us；in adversity, we know our friends.

--John Churton Collins

不肯与朋友共享果实的人，不要指望朋友与他共患难。

--古希腊寓言作家 伊索

He who will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.

--Aesop, Ancient Greek fable writer

患难朋友才是真朋友。

--博物学家 雷

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

很多人都会乐意跟你一起坐在豪华轿车里，但你需要的是那些当轿车坏掉之后，愿意陪你坐公交车的人。

--奥普拉·温弗里

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

--Oprah Winfrey

君子之交淡如水。 

--丹麦谚语

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

--Danish Proverb

通过对别人感兴趣来交朋友比试图让别人对你感兴趣来交朋友要快得多。

--戴尔·卡内基

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

--Dale Carnegie

如果你没有敌人，那么很有可能你也没有朋友。

--阿尔伯特·哈伯德

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

--Elbert Hubbard

一个人就算有上千个朋友也不算多，而就算他只有一个敌人，也会到处碰到这个敌人。

--拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

虽然你公开的敌人会咒骂并加害于你，但是假装是你的朋友的人更加可怕。

--约翰·盖伊

An open foe may prove a curse. But a pretended friend is worse.

--John Gay

要评价一个人，既要看他的朋友，也要看他的敌人。

--约瑟夫·康拉德（《吉姆老爷》）

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

--Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

一个向你皱眉的朋友胜过一个向你微笑的敌人。

--哲学家 舒朗尼

A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

没有敌人的人也不会有朋友。

--英国诗人 丁尼生

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

在你面前攻击你的人，往往是你的好朋友。

--莱昂纳多·路易斯·列文森

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

--Leonard Louis Levinson

对朋友们来说，知道我们对他们坦诚以待是非常重要的；而对友谊来说，同样重要的是，不要真的对他们事事相告。

--米格农·迈克劳林

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

--Mignon McLaughlin

建立在生意上的友谊，好过建立在友谊上的生意。

--约翰·洛克菲勒

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

--John D. Rockefeller

友谊有一种神奇的作用：如果把你的快乐告诉一个朋友，你将得到双倍的快乐；而如果你将你的忧愁向一个朋友倾诉，你的忧愁就减掉了一半。

--英国哲学家 培根

One mysterious effect of friendship lies in that if you tell your joy to your friend, your joy will double, and that if you pour your sorrow to your friend, your sorrow will be reduced by half.

朋友的沉默通常等于背叛。

--作家、文学评论家 兹里特

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery.

告诉我你交的是什么样的人，我就知道你是什么样的人。

--西班牙作家 塞万提斯

Tell me your company and I will tell you what you are.

识人与用人

衡量一个人真正的品质, 要看他在知道永远也不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。

--英国历史学家 托马斯·麦考莱

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

--Thomas Macaulay, British historian

艰苦的工作能显露人们的本性：一些人挽起袖子，一些人避开目光，一些人则根本不到场。

--萨姆·厄文

Hard work spotlights the character of people：some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

--Sam Ewing

烈火炼真金，逆境识真人。

--古罗马哲学家、剧作家、政治家 塞内加

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

要真正了解一个人, 需在不幸中考察他。

--法国政治家 拿破仑·波拿巴

To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.

--Bonaparte Napoleon, French statesman

从一个人为多大的事情生气就能知道他有多大的度量。

--美国政治家艾德莱·史蒂文森

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things which make him mad.

--Adlai Stevenson, American statesman

人生最大的教训是要知道即使傻瓜有时候也是对的。

--英国政治家 温斯顿·丘吉尔

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

--Winston Churchill, British statesman

潜藏的能力如同黏土, 它可以是鞋上的泥巴、建筑物中的砖块或是令人神往的雕像。黏土是一样的, 结果要看它是如何被使用的。

--企业家 詹姆斯·林肯

Latent abilities are like clay. It can be mud on shoes, brick in a building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used.

--James Lincoln, Businessman

变革与创新

想象力比知识更为重要。

--美国科学家 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Albert Einstein, American scientist

不要害怕持有古怪思想,  因为我们现在接受的每一个观点曾经都是不可思议的。

--英国哲学家、历史学家 伯特兰·罗素

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

--Bertrand Russell, British philosophy and historian

新的想法几乎总会被质疑，只是因为它们还不是常识。

--约翰·洛克

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

--John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding

挖掘新思想不比摒弃旧观点更困难。

--英国经济学家 约翰·凯恩斯

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

--John Keynes, British economist

领导与管理

卓越的领导能力在于告诉普通人，如何像优秀的人一样去工作。

--约翰·洛克菲勒

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

--John D. Rockefeller

当人们不再向你诉说问题的那天, 就是你不再领导他们的时候。

--美国前国务卿 科林·鲍威尔

The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

--Colin Powell, American former Secretary of State

会议很少能讨论出好主意，但是能消灭很多蠢主意。

--菲茨杰拉德

No grand idea was ever born in a conference，but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

--F．Scott Fitzgerald

成就与建树

伟大的成就需要人们模糊工作与娱乐之间的界限。

--阿诺德·汤因比

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

--Arnold J. Toynbee

成功之路有两条: 靠自己的努力或靠他人的愚蠢。

--法国道德家 拉布吕耶尔

There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

--Jean De La Bruyere, French moralist

我不知道成功的关键是什么，但是我知道，想要取悦所有人，是失败的关键。

--比尔·考斯比

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--Bill Cosby

我不知道成功的秘诀是什么, 但试着迎合每一个人是失败的秘诀。

--喜剧演员 比尔·考斯比

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--Bill Cosby, Comedian

同意所有人的意见的人, 不配得到任何人的赞同。

--英国政治家 亨利·帕默斯顿

The man who agrees with everybody is not worth having anybody agree with him.

--Henry Palmerston, British statesman

如果你只是想受欢迎，你将准备好随时妥协于任何事情，你将因此一事无成。

--英国前首相 撒切尔夫人

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing.

--Margaret Thatcher, British former Prime Minister

一个成功的人就是能把别人扔向他的砖头当作稳固的垫脚石的人。

--大卫·布林克利

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

--David Brinkley

机会从来不敲门，只有当你把大门撞倒的时候，它才会出现。

--凯尔·钱德勒

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

--Kyle Chandler

在博吉亚家族统治下的三十年，意大利经历了战争，恐惧，谋杀和流血事件——他们创造了米开朗琪罗，达芬奇和文艺复兴。在瑞士，人们享受着手足之情，五百年的民主与和平，他们创造了什么呢？小鸟报时钟。

--奥逊·威尔斯，影片《第三个人》

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed——they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock.

--Orson Welles, The Third Man

金钱与财富

现在我们要做的事情有两件：第一，让富人们了解穷人们是怎样生活的；第二，让穷人们了解富人们是怎样工作的。

--爱德华·阿特金森

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

--Edward Atkinson

变得富有的办法就是把你所有的鸡蛋都放在一个篮子里，然后看好这个篮子。

--安德鲁·卡内基

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

--Andrew Carnegie

手中的一只鸟胜于林中的两只鸟。

--希伍德

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

金钱好比肥料,? 只有撒到需要它的地方才是有用之物。

--英国哲学家、散文家 弗朗西斯·培根

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

--Francis Bacon, British philosopher and essayist

养育与教育

教育的目的是用装有新思想的头脑去取代一个空虚的灵魂。

--美国教育家 马尔科姆·福布斯

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

--Malcolm Forbes, American educator

教育的目的在于能让青年人毕生进行自我教育。

--美国教育家 罗伯特·哈钦斯

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

--Robert Hutchjns, American educator

孩子们不是等待被填满的花瓶，而是等待被点燃的火焰。

--弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

--Francois Rabelais

让早期教育成为一种娱乐吧；这样你会更容易发现孩子的爱好。

--柏拉图（《理想国》）

Let early education be a sort of amusement；you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

--Plato, The Republic

十分荒谬的是，许多教育家和父母还在为孩子们学习和娱乐的时间分配而争论，却意识不到它们其实是相通的事情。

--利奥·巴士卡里

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

--Leo Buscaglia

你担心他（孩子们）会把童年浪费掉吗？你说什么？感到快乐是浪费时间吗？一整天都蹦跳着玩耍、奔跑是浪费时间吗？他这一生都不会再比这更忙了。

--卢梭（《爱弥儿》）

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What！Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

--Rousseau, Emile

我们在竭力为孩子们创造“优势”的时候，我们实际上创造出了一群最忙碌、最有竞争意识、最有压力同时过于自律的一代年轻人，他们也很有可能是最不开心的一群人。

--伊达·洛杉（《阴谋对抗童真》）

In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history——and possibly the unhappiest.

--Eda J. LeShan, The Conspiracy against Childhood

应该允许孩子在成长中的每一步都体验真正的生活，决不要把刺儿从他的玫瑰上拔掉。

--埃伦·基

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

身教胜于言教。

--英国作家、批评家 塞缪尔·约翰逊

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

--Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic

我们经常忘记，相比于说教，孩子们更容易模仿身边的榜样。

--罗伊·史密斯

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

--Roy L. Smith

我一生中最重要的几次交谈，许多都发生在家里的餐桌边。

--鲍勃·欧利希

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

--Bob Ehrlich

我的母亲保护我不受外面世界的伤害，而我的父亲用外面的世界来恐吓我。

--昆丁·克里斯普

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

--Quentin Crisp

在我们这个竞争激烈的社会上，父亲们根本的缺点是他们总想要自己的孩子给自己脸上增光。

--伯特兰·罗素（《怀疑论文集》）

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

--Bertrand Russell, Skeptical Essays

对一个男孩来说，最大的不幸往往是有一个宠爱他的母亲。

--毛姆（《作家笔记》）

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences that to have a really affectionate mother.

--Maugham, A Writer's Notebook

被扯坏的衣服很容易修补，而伤人的话语会伤害孩子的心灵。

--亨利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗（《漂流木》）

A torn jacket is soon mended；but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood

教育是所学的东西被忘光之后，剩下的东西。

--B. F. 斯金纳

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

--B. F. Skinner

不要让学校影响你的教育。 

--马克·吐温

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

--Mark Twain 

我是一个诚实善良，好脾气的男孩，是牛津让我变得这么难以让人忍受的。

--麦克斯·毕尔邦

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

--Max Beerbohm

我更喜欢跟农民们相处，因为他们不会因为受到太多的教育而讲些错误的大道理。

--蒙田

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

--Michel de Montaigne

教育是国家的主要防御力量。

--英国政治家 埃德蒙·伯克

Education is the chief defence of nations.

--Edmund Bruke, British statesman

男人与女人

女人是用耳朵恋爱的，而男人如果会产生爱情的话，却是用眼睛来恋爱。

--英国剧作家 莎士比亚

Women are in love with their ears, and if the men will have love, it is to fall in love with eyes.

我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是在你面前我是怎样的一个人。

--印度诗人 泰戈尔

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某个人而言，你是他的整个世界。

--印度诗人 泰戈尔

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。

--法国作家 比西·拉比旦

Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.

爱一个人却没有得到回报是痛苦的，但比这更痛苦的是爱一个人却没有勇气让他（她）知道你是怎样的爱他（她）。

--佚名

It hurts to love someone and not be/loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

听取我的话，最笨的女人也可以管得住一个聪明的男人；但是要管得住愚蠢的男人，得要一个非常聪明的女人。

--鲁德亚德·吉普林

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.

--Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) 

婚姻意味着，如果你娶了一个好妻子，那么你将是幸福的；如果你娶了一个糟糕的妻子，你将成为一个哲学家。

--古希腊哲学家 苏格拉底

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

一个男人的脸是他的自传，一个女人的脸是她写的小说。

--奥斯卡·王尔德

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

--Oscar Wilde

人生与幸福

我想要指出这个普遍规律：生活模仿艺术远多于艺术模仿生活。

--奥斯卡·王尔德（《意图集》）

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

--Oscar Wilde, Intentions

人生用特写镜头看来是悲剧；用长镜头来看则是喜剧。

--查理·卓别林

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

--Charlie Chaplin

生命并非在于抓了一手好牌，而往往是要把烂牌打好。

--杰克·伦敦

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

--Jack London

你现在的处境并不能决定你要去的方向，它只决定了你的起点。

--尼多·库伯

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

--Nido Qubein

如果没有冬天，春天也不会如此可爱；如果没有经历苦难，幸福也不会让人感动。

--安妮·布莱德斯特律

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

--Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral

经验是一个严厉的老师，先考试（考验），再上课（给教训）。

--弗恩·罗

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson after.

--Vernon Law

灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会伤害我们。

--美国诗人、批评家 洛威尔

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.

谁笑到最后, 谁笑得最好。

--英国作家 沃尔特·司各特

He laughs best who laughs last.

--Walter Scott, British writer

一刷屏，一不小心就刷出了金玉