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英语名人名言精选 HEALTH 健康篇 A light heart lives long William Shakespeare British dramatist 豁达者长寿 英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise Benjamin Franklin American president 早睡早起会使人健康 富有和聪明 美国总统 富兰克林 B Sloth like rust consumes faster than labor wears Benjamin Franklin American president 懒惰像生锈一样 比操劳更能消耗身体 美国总统 富兰克林 B The first wealth is health Ralph Waldo Emerson American thinker 健康是人生第一财富 美国思想家 爱默生 R W WEALTH 财富篇 All the splendor 1 in the world is not worth a good friend Voltaire French thinker 人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友 法国思想家 伏尔泰 Creditors 4 have better memories than debtors Benjamin Franklin American president 放债的比借债的记忆好 美国总统 富兰克林 B If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some Benjamin Franklin American president 要想知道钱的价值 就想办法去借钱试试 美国总统 富兰克林 B If your Riches are yours why don t you take them with you to the other world Benjamin Franklin American president 如果财富是你的 那么你为什么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢 美国总统 富兰克林 B Money is a good servant and a bad master Francis Bacon British philosopher 金钱是善仆 也是恶主 英国哲学家 培根 F Money is like muck not good except it be spread Francis Bacon British philosopher 金钱好比粪肥 只有撒到在大地才是有用之物 英国哲学家 培根 F No country however rich can afford the waste of its human resources Franklin Roosevelt American president 任何一个国家 不管它多么富裕 都浪费不起人力资源 美国总统 罗斯富 F Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing Albert Einstein American scientist 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高 美国科学家 爱因斯坦 A HAPPINESS 幸福篇 A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth G Bernard Shaw British dramatist 终身幸福 这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的 那将是人间地狱 英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G Happiness is form courage H Jackson British writer 幸福是勇气的一种形式 英国作家 杰克逊 H Happy is the man who is living by his hobby G Bernard Shaw British dramatist 醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的 英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement in the thrill of creative effort Franklin Roosevelt American president 幸福不在于拥有金钱 而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情 美国总统 罗斯 福 F Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day Benjamin Franklin American president 与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运 不如说来自每天都有的小实惠 美国总统 富兰 克林 B Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be Abraham Lincoln American president 对于大多数人来说 他们认定自己有多幸福 就有多幸福 美国总统 林肯 A The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not George Bernard Shaw British dramatist 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福 英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved Victor Hugo French novelist 生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们 法国小说家 雨果 V There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence Jean Jacques Rousseau French thinker 人间最大的幸福莫如既有爱情又清白无暇 法国思想家 卢梭 J J To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune Bonaparte Napoleon French emperor 要真正了解一个人 需在不幸中考察他 法国皇帝 拿破仑 B We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it George Bernard Shaw British dramatist 正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样 我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福 英 国剧作家 肖伯纳 G TIME 时间篇时间篇 At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty the wit and at forty the judgment Benjamin Franklin American president 二十岁时起支配作用的是意志 三十岁时是机智 四十岁时是判断 美国总统 富兰克林 B Do you love life Then do not squander time for that s the stuff5 life is made of Benjamin Franklin American president 你热爱生命吗 那么 别浪费时间 因为生命是由时间组成的 美国总统 富兰克林 B Each moment in history is a fleeting time precious and unique Richard Nixon American president 历史巨轮飞转 分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵 也独具意义 美国总统 尼克松 R Fish and visitors smell three days Franklin Benjamin American president 鱼放三天发臭 客住三天讨嫌 美国总统 富兰克林 B I am a slow walker but I never walk backwards Abraham Lincoln American president 我走得很慢 但是我从来不会后退 美国总统 林肯 A If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday Pearl Buck American female writer 想要懂得今天 就必须研究昨天 美国女作家 赛珍珠 In delay there lies no plenty Then come kiss me sweet and twenty Youth s a stuff that will not endure William Shakespeare British dramatist 迁延蹉跎 来日无多 二十丽姝 请来吻我 衰草枯杨 青春易过 英国剧作家 莎士比 亚 W Never leave that until tomorrow which you can do today Benjamin Franklin American president 今天的事不要拖到明天 美国总统 富兰克林 B Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time a man of talent tries to use it Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 普通人只想到如何度过时间 有才能的人设法利用时间 德国哲学家 叔本华 A The golden age is before us not behind us Mark Twain American writer 黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后 美国作家 马克 吐温 The time of life is short to spend that shortness basely it would be too long William Shakespeare British dramatist 人生苦短 若虚度年华 则短暂的人生就太长了 英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W Time is money Benjamin Franklin American president 时间就是金钱 美国总统 富兰克林 B To choose time is to save time Francis Bacon British philosopher 合理安排时间就是节约时间 英国哲学家 培根 F We always have time enough if we will but use it aright Johan Wolfgang von Goethe German poet 只要我们能善用时间 就永远不愁时间不够用 德国诗人歌德 J W Weep no more no sigh nor groan Sorrow calls no time that s gone John Fletcher British dramatist 别哭泣 别叹息 别呻吟 悲伤唤不回流逝的时光 英国剧作家 弗莱沏 J STUDY 学习篇 Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation Franklin Roosevelt American president E 永恒的真理如果不在新的社会形势下赋予新的意义 要么就不是真理 要么就不是永恒的 美国总统 罗斯福 F Histories make men wise poems witty the mathematics subtle natural philosophy deep moral grave logic and rhetoric able to contend Francis Bacon British philosopher 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 修辞学使人善辨 英国哲学家 培根 F If you don t learn to think when you are young you may never learn Thomas Edison American inventor 如果你年轻时就没有学会思考 那么就永远学不会思考 美国发明家 爱迪生 T Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study Francis Bacon British philosopher 天生的才干如同天生的植物一样 需要靠学习来修剪 英国哲学家 培根 F WORK 工作篇工作篇 Don t gild the lily 不要给百合花镀金 画蛇添足 英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W I can live for two months on a good compliment Mark Twain American writer 只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月 美国作家 马克 吐温 It is no use doing what you like you have got to like what you do Winston Churchill British prime minister 不能爱哪行才干哪行 要干哪行爱哪行 美国首相 丘吉尔 W My philosophy of life is work Thomas Alva Edison American inventor 我的人生哲学就是工作 美国发明家 爱迪生 T A When work is a pleasure life is joy When work is duty life is slavery Maxim Gorky Russian writer 工作是一种乐趣时 生活是一种享受 工作是一种义务时 生活则是一种苦役 俄国作家 高尔基 M Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty Voltaire French philosopher 工作撵跑三个魔鬼 无聊 堕落和贫穷 法国哲学家 伏尔基泰 KNOWLEDGE 知识篇 Activity is the only road to knowledge George Bernard Shaw British dramatist 行动是通往知识的唯一道路 英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books Thomas Jefferson American president 一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外 还可以从许多别的来源获得知识 美国总统 杰斐逊 T A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way Adams Franklin American humorist 我的大部分知识都是这样获得的 在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料 美国幽默作家 富兰克林 A 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 Benjamin Franklin American president 倾已所有追求知识 没有人能夺走它 向知识投资 收益最佳 美国总统 富兰克林 B Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein American scientist 想象力比知识更为重要 美国科学家 爱因斯坦 A Knowledge is power Francis Bacon British philosopher 知识就是力量 英国哲学家 培根 F The empty vessels make the greatest sound William Shakespeare British dramatist 满瓶不响 半瓶咣当 英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W EDUCATION 教育篇 And gladly would learn and gladly teach Chaucer British poet 勤于学习的人才能乐意施教 英国诗人 乔叟 Better be unborn than untaught for ignorance is the root of misfortune Plato Ancient Greek philosopher 与其不受教育 不如不生 因为无知是不幸的根源 古希腊哲学家 柏拉图 Genius17 without education is like silver in the mine Benjamin Franklin American president 未受教育的天才 犹如矿中之银 美国总统 富兰克 B The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet Aristotle Ancient Greek philosopher 教育的根是苦的 但其果实是甜的 古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德 CULTURE 文化篇 A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight P B Shelley British poet 伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉 英国诗人 雪莱 P B A novel is a mirror walking along a main road Stendhcl French writer 一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子 法国作家 司汤达 Art is a lie that tells the truth Picasso Spanish painter 美术是揭示真理的谎言 西班牙画家 毕加索 Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest Mark Twain American novelist 幽默被人正确地解释为 以诚挚表达感受 寓深思于嬉笑 美国小说家 马克 吐温 The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation the two keep in their downward tendency Johan Wolfgang von Goethe German poet 文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落 这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的 德国诗人 歌德 J W When one loves one s art no service seems too hard O Henry American novelist 一旦热爱艺术 什么奉献也不难 美国小说家 欧 亨利 王尔德语录节选 The only difference between a caprice and a life long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer 逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些 When one is in love one always begins by deceiveing one s self and one always ends by deceiving others That is what would calls a romance 爱 始于自我欺骗 终于欺骗他人 这就是所谓的浪漫 恋爱总是以自欺开始 以欺人结束 The very essence of romance is uncertainty 浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason 人是理性动物 但当他被要求按照理性的要求行动时 可又要发脾气了 My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death One or other of us has to go 墙纸越来越破 而我越来越老 两者之间总有一个要先消失 1900 年 11 月 30 日 于左岸旅店 他的遗言 No man is rich enough to buy back his own past An Ideal Husband 1895 没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去 改编自 理想的丈夫 The truth is rarely pure and never simple The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 真相很少纯粹 也决不简单 不可儿嬉 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance 爱自己是终身浪漫的开始 爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史 We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars 我们都生活在阴沟里 但仍有人仰望星空 Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one s mistakes 大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误 但发现时已经太晚了 What is the chief cause of divorce Marriage 什么是离婚的主要原因 结婚 When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve 当爱情走到尽头 软弱者哭个不停 有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标 而聪明 的早就预备了下一个 No great artist ever sees things as they really are If he did he would cease to be an artist 伟大的艺术家所看到的 从来都不是世界的本来面目 一旦他看透了 他就不 再是艺术家 I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit 我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽 One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about 一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人 We Irish are too poetical to be poets we are a nation of brilliant failures but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks 我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人 我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者 可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人 What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise 看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福 The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray 情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途 Over the piano was printed a notice Please do not shoot the pianist He is doing his best Personal Impressions of America Leadville 1883 钢琴上贴着一条告示 请不要枪杀钢琴师 他已经尽力了 The heart was made to be broken 心是用来碎的 The public is wonderfully tolerant It forgives everything except genius 公众惊人地宽容 他们可以原谅一切 除了天才 Religions die when they are proved to be true Science is the record of dead religions 宗教一旦被证明是正确时就会消亡 科学便是已消亡宗教的记录 Why was I born with such contemporaries 为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢 A poet can survive everything but a misprint 诗人可以从任何事件中存活 印刷错误除外 Only the shallow know themselves 只有浅薄的人才了解自己 The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it I can resist everything but temptation 摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑 我能抗拒一切 除了诱惑 Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation 不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步 I like to do all the talking myself It saves time and prevents arguments 我喜欢自言自语 因为这样节约时间 而且不会有人跟我争论 Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit 格言是智慧耐用的替代品 A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world 梦想家只能在月光下找到前进的方向 他为此遭受的惩罚是比所有人提前看到 曙光 Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future 每个圣人都有过去 每个罪人都有未来 To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist that is all 生活是世上最罕见的事情 大多数人只是存在 仅此而已 I have nothing to declare except my genius 除了我的天才 我没什么好申报的 I like men who have a future and women who have a past 我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人 Pessimist One who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both 悲观主义者是这种人 当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时 他把两种都选了 Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals 社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在 真实世界中只有个体存在 What is a cynic A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing 一个愤世嫉俗的人知道所有东西的价格 却不知道任何东西的价值 I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world 我喜欢人甚于原则 此外我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切 It is the confession not the priest that gives us absolution 给我们赦免的 是忏悔而不是牧师 I don t want to earn my living I want to live 我不想谋生 我想生活 Moderation is a fatal thing Nothing succeeds like excess 适度是极其致命的事情 过度带来的成功是无可比拟的 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about 世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕 那就是没有人议论你 When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers An Ideal husband 1893 当神想惩罚我们时 他们就回应我们的祈祷 一个理想的丈夫 Life is never fair And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not An Ideal Husband 1893 生活从来不是公平的 而且 或许对我们大多数人来说 这是件好事 一 个理想的丈夫 How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being 如果男人坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人 女人如何能期望会从他那里获得幸 福 All charming people I fancy are spoiled It is the secret of their attraction 我想所有迷人的人都是被宠爱着的 这是他们吸引力来源的秘密 Nothing is so aggravating than calmness 没有比冷静更让人恼火的 Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered 声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一 Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities 奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌 To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world the most difficult and the most intellectual 什么也不做是世上最难的事情 最困难并且最智慧 A true friend stabs you in the front 真朋友才会当面中伤你 Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you 平常的财宝会被偷走 而真正的财富则不会 你灵魂里无限珍贵的东西是无法 被夺走的 The well bred contradict other people The wise contradict themselves 教养良好的人处处和他人过不去 头脑聪明的人处处和自己过不去 Hatred is blind as well as love 恨是盲目的 爱亦然 Looking good and dressing well is a necessity Having a purpose in life is not 注意穿着打扮是必要的 而拥有生活目标却并非如此 Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much 永远宽恕你的敌人 没有什么能比这个更让他们恼怒的了 Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them 孩子最初爱他们父母 等大一些他们评判父母 然后有些时候 他们原谅父母 There are only two tragedies in life one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it 生活中只有两种悲剧 一个是没有得到我们想要的 另外一个是得到我们想要的 世上只有两类悲剧 有些人总是不能遂愿 而有些人总是心想事成 A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone s feelings unintentionally 绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人 Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative 谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所 One s real life is often the life that one does not lead 真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活 Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others 邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言 用来解释其他人的特殊魅力 Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography 现在每个伟人都有自己的信徒 而他们的传记总由叛徒来写 The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it 愚人创造了这个世界 智者不得不活在其中 Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious both are disappointed 男人因疲倦而结婚 女人因好奇而结婚 最终他们都会失望 The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married 已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人 Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building 20 年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟 20 年的婚姻使女人变成一座公共建筑 When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife Women try their luck men risk theirs 女人再嫁是因为憎恶前夫 男人再娶是因为太爱前妻 女人再嫁是因为讨厌原来的丈夫 男人再娶是因为太爱原来的妻子 在寻 找配偶时 女人习惯碰运气 而男人则会冒险 Men become old but they never become good 人们越长越老 但绝不会越变越好 The evolution of man is slow The injustice to man is great 人类的进化很缓慢 他们遭受的不公待遇显而易见 Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed It is not fair that some men should be happier than others 对富有的单身汉应该客以重税 让某些人比其他人更快乐是不公平的 The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional 情感的好处就是让我们引入歧途 而科学的好处是不感情用事 I adore simple pleasures They are the last refuge of the complex 我敬佩简单的快乐 那是复杂的最后避难所 Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul 除了感官 什么也不能治灵魂的创痛 同样 感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了 A good name like good will is got by many action and lost by one 一个好的名声 就像好的意向一样 在很多个举动的形成 在一个举动中失去 It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad People are either charming or tedious Lady Windermere s Fan 1892 Act I 把人分成好的与坏的是荒谬的 人要么迷人 要么乏味 温夫人的扇子 Women are meant to be loved not to be understood The Sphinx Without a Secret 女人是用来被爱的 不是用来被理解的 没有秘密的斯芬克斯 Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life 艺术并非模仿生活 而是生活在模仿艺术 Everyone is born king and most people die in exile 每个人生来都是君王 但大多数在流亡中死去 When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know it is 我年青时以为金钱至上 而今年事已迈 发现果真如此 Don t be afraid of the past If people tell you that it is irrevocable don t believe them 不要惧怕过去 如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回 别相信他们 An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all 一个思想若称不上危险 那么它就不值得被称作思想 Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion 争论是俗不可耐的 因为道德社会里每个人都持完全相同的观点 Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away 死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious 爱国是恶人的美德 Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong 每次人们赞同我的时候 我都觉得自己一定错了 I am not at all romantic I am not old enough I leave romance to my seniors 我一点都不浪漫 我还不算太老 还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧 Wicked women bother one Good women bore one That is the only difference between them 坏女人给我麻烦 好女人令我厌烦 这就是她们唯一的不同 Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes 每个人犯了错误 都自称是经验 经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字 And after all what is a fashion From the artistic point of view it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we haveto alter it every six months Literary and Other Notes I Woman s World November 1887 时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋 以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次 时装丑陋得