第四章_名言、谚语

第四章 名言、谚语
1.教育与学习
名言
1) Knowledge is power.
2) Knowledge is the food of the soul.
3) Activity is the only road to knowledge.
4) Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
5) A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books.
6) If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him;
an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
7) A little learning is a dangerous thing.
8) A little learning is not a dangerous thing
to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
9) Example is always more efficacious than precept.
10) Education commences at the mother’s knee,
and every word spoken within the hearsay of children
tends towards the formation of character.
11) If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders.
12) Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
13) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
14) The primary purpose of education
is not to teach you to earn your bread,
but to make every mouthful sweeter.
15) In education we are striving not
to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
16) Education has for its object the formation of character.
谚语
1) Unpolished pearls never shine.
2) Learn young, learn fair.
3) A young idler, an old beggar.
4) Learning is the eye of the mind.
5) There is no royal road to learning.
6) Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
7) Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps.
8) Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
9) Complacency is the enemy of study.
10) He who inquires much learns much.
11) He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
12) Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
13) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
2.工作与生活
名言
1) My philosophy of life is work.
2) To youth I have three words of counsel-work, work and work.
3) Happiness, I have discovered,
is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
4) The value of a man should be seen in
what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
5) Why should work be such a significant source of human satisfaction?
A good share of the answer rest in the kind of pride
that is stimulated by the job,
by the activity of accomplishing.
6) Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
7) The best preparation for good work tomorrow
is to do good work today.
8) It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
9) We often hear of people breaking down from overwork,
but in nine cases out of ten
they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
10) There are two ways to live:
you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle.
11) Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
12) Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
it has to take you in.
13) The house of every one is to him

as his castle and fortress.
14) He is the happiest, be he King or peasant,
who finds peace in his home.
15) There is a skeleton in every house.
16) Prevention is better than cure.
17) Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
谚语
1) Business is the salt of life.
2) Industry is the parent of success.
3) A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
4) A rolling stone gathers no moss.
5) It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
6) As a man sows, so he shall reap.
7) Eat to live, but not live to eat.
8) Life is not all roses.
9) Care and diligence bring luck.
10) Wealth is nothing without health.
11) A sound mind is in a sound body.
12) Good health is over wealth.
13) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
14) Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
3.道德与爱情
名言
1) All men are liable to error; and most men are,
in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
2) The world is not dangerous because of those
who do harm but because of those
who look at it without doing
3) Character is what you are in the dark.
4) Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
5) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
6) Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
7) He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;
general good is the plea of the scoundrel , hypocrite and flatterer.
8) It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
9) I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
10) If your morals make you dreary,
depend upon it, they are wrong.
11) Morality is not really the doctrine of
how to make ourselves happy
but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
12) We all tell lies--little lies, big lies, necessity lies
in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort.
13) Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust.
14) Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer
to the problem of human existence.
15) Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy.
Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
16) The best proof of love is trust.
17) The course of true love never did run smooth.
18) Love me little, love me long.
19) It is impossible to love and to be wise.
20) First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
谚语
1) Lies have short legs.
2) Cheats never prosper.
3) Penny wise, pound foolish.
4) He is wise that is honest.
5) Honesty is the best policy.
6) Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
7) Love cannot be compelled.
8) Love is blind.
9) Love is full of trouble.
10) Love is never without jealousy.
11) Love me, love my dog.
12) Hasty love, soon cold.
13) Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes.
4. 理想与现实
名言
1) Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
2) Ideals are like the stars-we never reach

them,
but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
3) Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
4) Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction;
without direction, there is no life.
5) Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
6) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow
will be our doubts of today.
7) If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
8) Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose
that you resolved to effect.
9) If you would go up high, then use your own legs!
Do not let yourselves be carried aloft;
do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads.
10) It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
11) Miracles sometimes occur,
but one has to work terribly for them.
12) We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,
but we can’t bring it to achievement.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
13) You never know what you can do till you try.
14) Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
15) To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
16) A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
谚语
1) A penny soul never came to two pence.
2) Great hopes make great men.
3) If you don’t aim high, you will never hit high.
4) Little things amuse (or please) little minds.
5) Life is but a span.
6) Life is not all roses.
7) Attempt not or accomplish.
8) Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
9) He who wills success is half way to it.
10) A young idler, an old beggar.
5.科技与经济
名言
1) Science is organized knowledge.
2) Science is the systematic classification of experience.
3) Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent,
common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
4) The whole of science is nothing
more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
5) Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
6) True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
7) There are in fact two things, science and opinion;
the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
8) The man of science does not discover in order to know,
he wants to know in order to discover.
9) It is not the possession of truth,
but the success which attends the seeking after it,
that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
10) There is no royal road to science,
and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb
of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
11) We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
12) If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
13) Necessity is the mother of invention.
14) Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains,

there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
15) One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
16) Technology… is a queer thing.
It brings you great gifts with one hand,
and it stabs you in the back with the other.
17) Men have become the tools of their tools.
18) Avarice, (is) the spur of industry.
19) All progress is based upon a universal innate desire
on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
20) Economy is the poor man’s mints;
extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
21) The best cure for the national economy would be economy.
22) If Enterprise is afoot,
wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift;
and if Enterprise is asleep, wealth decays,
whatever Thrift may be doing.
23) Necessity never makes a good bargain.
24) There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
25) There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
26) A friendship founded on business is better than
business founded on friendship.
谚语
1) The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
2) From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
3) Modern technology owes ecology an apology.
4) When industry goes out of the door,
poverty comes in at the window.
5) From saving comes having.
6) A penny saved is a penny earned.
6.社会与环境
名言
1) Good order is the foundation of all things.
2) Law is order, and good law is good order.
3) No society can make a perpetual constitution,
or even a perpetual law.
4) Punishment is justice for the unjust.
5) It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill.
6) Singularity is almost invariably a clue.
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is,
the more difficult is it to bring it home.
7) Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative.
Conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
8) Change starts when someone sees the next step.
9) Discontent is the first step in progress of a man or a nation.
10) Tradition lives because young people come along
who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
11) In every community, there is work to be done.
In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
In every heart, there is the power to do it.
12) The only worthwhile achievements of man are those
which are socially useful.
13) The more we exploit nature,
the more our options are reduced,
until we have only one: to fight for survival.
14) We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall
and everyone is arguing over where they’re going to sit.
15) In nature there are no rewards or punishments;
there are consequences.
16) Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;
be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
谚语
1) A great ship asks deep waters.
2) Circumstances are the rulers of the weak,
instruments of the wise.
3) Do in Rome as the Romans do.
4) Bad customs are be

tter broken than kept up.
5) Other days, other ways.
6) Times change and we change with them.
7) Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
7.人生与逆境
名言
1) Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
2) As fruit needs not only sunshine
but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it,
so character needs not only joy
but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
3) Tough-minded optimists approach problems
with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies.
4) No pain , no palm; no thorns , no throne;
no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
5) Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
6) The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters,
one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
7) Let us suggest to the person in crisis
that he cease concentrating so upon
the dangers involved and the difficulties，
and concentrate instead upon the opportunity
-for there is always opportunity in crisis.
8) Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
9) Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
10) Everything can be taken from a man but one thing;
the freedom to choose his attitude
in any given set of circumstances.
11) Almost any situation-good or bad
-is affected by the attitude we bring to it.
12) Mishaps are like knives that either serve us
or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.
13) It is not true suffering ennobles the character;
happiness does that sometimes, but suffering,
for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
14) Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent.
15) The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer,
but what they miss.
16) A man can fail many times,
but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
17) Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes,
dare it again and again and it will succumb.
18) Few things are impossible in themselves;
and it is often for want of will,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
19) Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
20) When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
谚语
1) Every cloud has a silver lining.
2) A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
3) Adversity leads to prosperity.
4) The fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong man.
5) Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
6) Prosperity doth best discover vice,
but adversity doth discover virtue.
7) Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
8) He who does not advance loses ground.
9) Do nothing by halves.
10) Things at the worst will mend.
8.娱乐与休闲
名言
1) Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
2) I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best.
My health is the main capital I have
and I want to administer it intelligently.
3) People who cannot find time
for recreation are obliged sooner or later
to find

time for illness.
4) Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
5) The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about
whether you are happy or not.
6) Art is much less important than life,
but what a poor life without it!
7) Art is the right hand of nature.
The latter only gave us being,
but the former made us men.
8) In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains.
9) Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
10) Literature is a kind of intellectual light which,
like the light of the sun, may sometimes
enable us to see what we do not like.
11) Movies can and do have tremendous influence
in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment
towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
12) The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.
13) He who travels far knows much.
14) The world is a book,
and those who do not travel read only a page.
谚语
1) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
2) A bow long bent at last waxes weak.
3) Work while you work; play while you play.
4) Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man.
5) Happiness takes no account of time.
6) Pleasure has its sting in its tail.