On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. 世上唯有人最伟大；人中唯有头脑最重要。 ——A.Hamilton What is a man but his mind? 人无头脑，何以为人？——Clarke
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
笑，这世界与你同笑；哭，独自去哭吧。
——E.W.Wilcox When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
当一个人内心开始斗争时，其生存才有价值。——Robert Browning.
The proper function of man is
◇文化与修养◇
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. 把握过去的人也把握未来，把握现在的人才能把握过去。——George Orwell. Optimism is an intellectual choice. 乐观是明智的选择。 ——Diana Schneid Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 一个人的命运模式主要是由自己决定的。 ——Francis Bacon Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. 智慧通常不出现，所以我们不能因为它来得晚就拒绝它。——Felix Frankfurter
◇人性与道德◇
to live, but not to exist.
人应该生活，而非单纯生存。
——Jack London
Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。 ——G.Meredith
He that is once born, once must die.
有生必有死。——Herbert
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
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
用礼物“买来”的朋友终会被买走。
——Thomas Fuller Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
友谊是一根金线，把全世界的
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
如果你独自一人时笑了，那是真心的笑。 ——Andy Rooney
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。 ——H.W.Arnold
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。
——Suetonius
People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。——Arnold Glasgow
◇友谊与爱情◇Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
友谊如金钱一般，容易得到却不易保持。 ——Samuel Butler
心连在一起。 ——J.Evelyn Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任，就没有友谊。——Epicurus In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
在顺境中，朋友结识了我们；在逆境中，我们了解了朋友。——C.Collins
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
战争就是和平，自由就是
奴役，无知就是力量。——George Orwell You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
你可以用刺刀建造王位，却无法久坐其上。 ——Boris Yeltsin Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
如果只从金融方面讲，有钱是比没钱好。 ——Woody Allen The very essence of
Friendship often ends in love, but love, in
friendship—never 友谊常以爱情而结束；而爱情从不能以友谊而告终。——C.C.Colton Suspicion is the poison of friendship. 猜疑对友谊而言是一种毒药。 ——St.Augustine Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. 不要向不如你幸福的人说你自己的幸福。 ——Plutarch
◇社会和政治◇
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
济贫不能除贫。——P. J. O'Rourke
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
如果人们不得不听听两面之辞，总是有希望的。
——John Mill
leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
做领导最本质的是你得有眼力，不能无目的地吹号。——Theodore Hesburgh
Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.
没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。——R.Peters
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。
——John Ruskin
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。 ——Paul Nitze
High expectations are the
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
注意你的敌人，因为他们总是第一个发现你的错误。
——Antisthenes
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
如果从没有失去过自由，很容易将自由当做想当然的事情。——Dick Cheney
◇青春和理想◇What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。 ——G.Eliot If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，发生的只是你变
老。 ——Larry McMurtry Try not to become a man of success but rather try
key to everything.
to become a man of value.
远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。
——Sam Walton
不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的
人。 ——Einstein
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
勇敢永远都不会过时。 ——W.M.Thackery
Better do a little well, than a great deal badly.
宁可做得少而精，不要做
得多而糟。 ——Socrates
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
从一个儿童教育的开始，他就应体验到发现的快乐。
——A.N.Whitehead
Youth is more courageous than age because it knows less. Age is wiser than youth because it knows more.
青年人比老年人勇气大，因为他们知道的比较少。老年人比青年人明智，因为他们知道的较多。——W.E.B.DuBois
Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.
在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。 ——R.L.Stevenson
◇教育与成长◇
For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.
对许多人来说，生命中最长的一英里就是从依赖到之间的距离。——Carla B.James Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like.
只有使一个人看清自己，他才能进步。 ——Chekhow The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
生活的价值不
There is no royal road to learning.
学无坦途。——Anthony Trollope
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much and studying much. 求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。 ——Catherall People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们缺少的不是力量，而是勇气。 ——Hugo You may be
disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
失败了你或许会失望，但如果不去试，你就死定了。——Beverly Sills
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art give it some. 生活是美好的，但它缺少形式，艺术的目标正是给生活某种形式。——Jean Anouilh
在于生命的长短，而在于我们是怎样度过的。——Montaigne
Education is the ability to listen talmost anything without losing yotemper or your self-confidence.
教育就是要使人具备一种能听到任何话都不动怒或丧失——Robert Frost
◇学习与奋斗◇
Say well is good, but do well is better.
能说得天花乱坠是不错，但做得天衣无缝则更高。——Clarke There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
成功没有秘诀。它是仔细准备，努力工作，从失败中吸取教训的结果。 ——Gen.Colin L.Powell He that seeks finds. 寻者获
之。 ——Heywood A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
一个人如果失败了并不会完蛋，只有放弃了才会完蛋。——Richard Nixon
◇文学与艺术◇
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
没有人能通过模仿别人而成名。
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. 艺术是让我们意识到真理的诺言。 ——Picasso The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. 检验一个人是不是真正的喜剧家就是你是否在他未开口时就笑。 ——G. J. Nathan Speech was given to man to express his thought.
语言赋予人类是为了表达思想。 ——Moliere
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. 名称有什么关系呢？玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。——Shakespeare
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
崇高与荒谬仅一步之遥。——Napoleon
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. 即使所有的专家都一致赞同，他们可能也错了。——Bertrand Russell
Sometimes the most
——Samuel Johnson The eye is the painter and the ear the singer. 眼睛是画家，耳朵是歌唱家。
——Emerson Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammar. 伟大著作是由其风格和内容来衡量的，而不是其语法的修饰和多变。 ——Mark Twain Music is the universal language of mankind. 音乐是全人类的共通语言。
——Longfellow
◇自然与科学◇Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. 滴滴小水珠，颗颗小沙粒，会形成浩瀚的海洋与宜人的土地。——Julia Carney
Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
即使是最疲惫的河流，历经曲折，也终会安然入海。 ——Swinburne
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. 人类的历史就是思想的历史。
——Ludwig Von Mises
urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. 有时候你能做的最紧急重要的事情就是彻底休息。——Ashleigh Brilliant
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth. 一个男人最大的财富就是爱妻和健康。 ——Fuller All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. 幸福的家庭都是相似的；而不幸的家庭各各不同。——Leo Tolstoy Love makes the world go round. 爱使世界转动。——Charles Dickens Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created.
幸福婚姻并不是自然而然就有的，它需要努力去创造。——W.A.Peterson
To believe with certainty,we must begin with doubting. 要完全相信，我们首先得怀疑。——Stanislaus
◇事业和家庭◇
A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmaster. 一位好母亲抵得上一百个教师。
——George Herbert The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, and none of incidents as disasters. 成功的婚姻的秘诀在于：把大灾难看成小事故，而不要把小事故看成大灾难。
——Harold Nicolson Love is a sweet torment. 爱是甜蜜的折磨。——Draxe He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who find peace in his home.
无论是国王还是农夫，只要家庭和睦，他便是最幸福的人。——Goethe
