英文名言集

英文名言集

第一步是最关键的一步。

You never know your luck.

命运好坏不由己。

Sow nothing, reap nothing.

春不播，秋不收。

The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.

精神的财富是唯一的财富。

You can't judge a tree by its bark.

人不可貌相。

Clothes do not make the man.

人不在衣装。

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

既当演说家，又做实干家。

Variety is the spice of life.

变化是生活的调味品。

Bad times make a good man.

艰难困苦出能人。

There is no royal road to learning.

求知无坦途。

Doubt is the key to knowledge.

怀疑是知识的钥匙。

Sharp tools make good work.

工欲善其事，必先利其器。

Wasting time is robbing oneself.

浪费时间就是掠夺自己。

Nurture passes nature.

教养胜过天性。

There is no garden without its weeds.

没有不长杂草的花园。

A man is only as good as what he loves.

一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。

Wealth is the test of a man's character.

财富是对一个人品格的试金石。

The best hearts are always the bravest.

心灵最高尚的人，也总是最勇敢的人。 Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.

礼貌和美貌是分不开的伴侣。

Plain living and high thinking.

生活要朴素，情操要高尚。

Good is good, but better carries it.

精益求精，善益求善。

Honesty is the best policy.

诚实为上策。

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

感恩是精神高尚的标志。

Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.

礼貌不用花一分钱，却能赢得一切。

A man can't ride your back unless it is bent.

你的腰不弯，别人就不能骑在你的背上。

Conceit is the quicksand of success.

自负是成功的流沙。

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

正义的战争创造持久的和平。

There is no disputing about tastes.

人各有所好。

It is easy to be wise after the event.

事后诸葛亮容易当。

He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.

做事过于苛求，反把事情弄坏。

When all else is lost the future still remains.

就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。

The world is his who enjoys it.

活着感到快乐，世界就属于你。

A little labor, much health.

适量的劳动有益于健康。

Laugh and grow fat.

心宽体胖。

Work won't kill but worry will.

劳动无害，忧愁伤身。 He is rich that has few wants.

寡欲者富。

Every man at forty is a fool or a physician.

人到四十，如果不是傻子，就该知道保养身体。

When I say I know you,I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now. 当我说认识你的时，我是说我认识昨天的你。我不认识现在的你。 ——Kaishnamurti 克里什纳默尔迪

2.Wonders are many,and nothing is more wonderful then man. 天下奇迹无数，却无一比人更奇妙。--Sophocles 3.The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist. 人应该生活，而非单纯生存。--Jack London

4.If you smile when one is around,you really mean it. 如果你独自一人笑了，那是真心的笑。--Andy Rooney 5.There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.

该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。--Caxton卡克斯顿

6.The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm. 最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。 -- H.W.Arnold H.W.阿诺德

7.It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,but at night it is another thing.

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。 --Hemingway 海明威

8. To err is human,to forgive,divine.

人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。 --Pope 蒲柏

9.There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

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。

——Colleen McCullough 科林·麦卡洛

10.In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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。 ——Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡·王尔德

11.Naked came I into this world,and naked must I go out. 我**裸地来到这个世界，也要**裸地离去。 ——Cervantes 塞万提斯

12.Passion,though a bad regulator,is a powerful spring. 激情虽难以驾驭，却是种强大的动力。 ——Emerson 爱默生

13.Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles. 把你的名字刻在人们的心里，而不是大理石上。 ——Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生 14. I can resist everything except temptation. 除了诱惑我什么都能抵抗。 ——Oscar wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德

15.What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. 一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单：做自己。 ——Henrik Ibsen 易卜生

16. The love of country is the first virtue in a civilized man. 爱国是文明人类第一美德。 —— Napoleon 拿破仑

17. We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love. 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。

——A.L.Huxley A.L.赫胥黎

18.A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form. 美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。 ——Emerson 爱默生

19.Man is，Properly speaking,based upon hope;he has no other posseession but hope. 恰当地说，人是因希望活着的，除了希望，一无所有。 ——Thomas Caarlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

20.Man must look just as ridiculous to the crab when it sees him walk forward. 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。 ——G.c.Lichtenberg G.C.利希滕贝格

21.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.

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。 ——Plutarch 普卢塔克

22. Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody. 每个人都是月球，有其从不展示给人看的黑暗面。 ——Mark Twain 马克·吐温

23.Do not rejoice over anyone's death;remember that we all must die. 不要因某一个人死去而欢呼；记住我们都将死去。

——Apocrypha 阿波克拉弗

24. As long as any man exists,there is some need of him;let him fight for his own. 只要人生存，就有一些需要，让他为自己去奋斗吧。 ——Cicero 西塞罗

25. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. 重复并不能把谎言变成真理。

——Franklin D.Roosevelt 富兰克林·D·罗斯福

26.The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.