名人名言學英語（3）

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. ( A. Bierce )

命運是暴君施虐的權威，傻瓜失敗的借口。(比爾斯)

Have no fear of perfection ---- you'll never reach it. ( S. Dali )

不要為十全十美擔心——你永遠作不到十全十美。(達里)

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. ( F. Bacon )

人的行為準則是，維護自己的尊嚴，不妨礙他人的自由。(培根)

One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.

( Nehru ) 一個人能在戰(zhàn)場上制勝千軍，但只有戰(zhàn)勝自己才是最偉大的勝利者。(尼赫魯)

The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. ( Ovid )

人越偉大，越能克制怒火。(奧維德)

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ( A. E. Stevenson )

為原則而斗爭容易，按原則的要求活著難。(史蒂文森)

There is nothing permanent except change. ( Heracleitus )

惟有變化才是永恒的。(赫拉克利特)

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ( T. Paine )

想要收獲自由之果的人，必須承受維護自由的勞苦。(潘恩)

No road of flowers lead to glory. ( La Fontaine )

沒有一條通向光榮的道路是鋪滿鮮花的。(拉封丹)

Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. ( Shakespeare )

不要只因一次挫敗，就放棄你原來決心想達到的目的。(莎士比亞)

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon )

凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能”的。(拿破侖)

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. ( C. Weizmann )

奇跡有時候是會發(fā)生的，但是你得為之拼命蒂努力。(魏茨曼)

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )

沒有黑暗這種東西，只有看不見而已。(馬格里奇)

It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. ( G. Eliot )

天上永遠不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。(艾略特)

Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ( T. W. Robertson )

時間是一只永遠在飛翔的鳥。(羅伯遜)

If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ( Edison )

如果你年輕時不學會思考，那就永遠不會。(愛迪生)

A day is a miniature of eternity. ( Emerson )

一天是永恒的縮影。(愛默生)

The course of true love never did run smooth. ( Shakespeare )

真誠的愛情之路永不會是平坦的。(莎士比亞)

Love is stronger than death.

愛的力量大于死亡。(《圣經(jīng)》)

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ( A. J. Heschel )

少時喜歡聰明人，老來喜歡仁厚人。(赫歇爾)

All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. ( H. D. Thoreau )

一切好的東西都是便宜的，所有壞的東西都是非常貴的。(梭羅)

Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind. ( Andy J. Sklivis )

耐心等待!風車從不跑去找風。(斯克利維斯)

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L. Blum )

品德可能僅僅在于有勇氣作出抉擇。(布魯斯)

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else. ( O. W. Holmes )

通常是沒想到成名的人反而成了名。(霍姆斯)

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ( W. Penn)

妒忌者對別人是煩惱，對他們自己卻是折磨。(佩恩)

If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ( O. Wilde )

如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就會少一些麻煩。(王爾德)

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ( E. Hubbard )

許多人的名聲如果在街上遇到自己的品德會互相不認識。(哈伯德)

Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )

不要把生命浪費于懷疑與恐懼中。(愛默生)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ( A. M. Lindbergh )

生活中最使人筋疲力盡的事是弄虛作假。(林德伯格)

It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ( N. Coward )

令人沮喪的是，有那么多人對誠實感到吃驚，而對欺騙感到吃驚的人卻那么的少。(科沃德)

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ( George Eliot )

我從不憐惜自負的人們，因為我覺得他們無處不能自我安慰。(艾略特)

Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. ( Bernard Shaw )

人可以爬到最高峰，但他不能在那兒久住。(蕭伯納)

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Kierkegaard)

暴君死了，他的統(tǒng)治就結束了;烈士死了，他的統(tǒng)治剛開始。(克爾凱郭爾)

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ( T. S. Eliot )

世界上大部分的麻煩都是要想成為偉大人物的人搞出來的。(艾略特)

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --- or nothing. ( Lady Astor )

生活中的主要危險來自那些想要改變一切或什么也不想改變的人。(阿斯特子爵夫人)

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time. ( Mark Twain )

習慣就是習慣，誰也不能將其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下樓。(馬克吐溫)

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. ( C. K. Chesterton )

可以給偏執(zhí)下一個粗略的定義：沒有觀點的人的憤怒。(切斯特頓)

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ( W. Winchell )

樂觀主義者：被獅子逼上了樹但仍能欣賞風景的人。(溫切爾)

You know what charm is : A way of getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question. ( A. Camus )

你知道什么是魅力：一種不用明白地提出問題而能得到肯定答復的辦法。(加謬)

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ( J. Cocteau )

對于詩人來說，最大的悲劇莫過于由于誤解而受到欽佩。(科克托)

The essence of language is human activity. ( O. Jesperson )

語言的本質(zhì)是人類活動。(耶斯佩森)

Animals are such agreeable friends ----they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ( George Eliot )

動物是極容易相處的，它們從不提問，也從不會批評。(艾略特)