第五部分名人名言背诵

第五部分　名人名言背诵　　Famous Quotations

1. Morality道德篇

Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. (C. C Schwab, American Businessman)

品格之于人，犹如芳香之于花。(美国实业家 施瓦布)

Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German Philosopher)

道德是个人心目中的群居本能。(德国哲学家 尼采)

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)

道德可能仅仅在于有勇气做出抉择。(法国政治家 布鲁姆)

Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. (William Black, British poet)

相互宽容对方的缺点，乃是通向天堂之门。(英国诗人 布莱克)

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)

人不仅要做好事，更要以正确的方式做好事。(英国政治家 莫利)

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. (A. J. Ayer, American writer)

道德不可能建立在权威的基础上，即使这种权威是至高无上的。(美国作家 艾尔)

Nothing is easier than to deceive one’s self. (Demothenes, Ancient Greek statesman)

再没有什么比欺骗自己更容易的了。(古然希腊政治家 德摩西尼)

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

美德是勇敢的，善良从来无所畏惧。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚)

2. Ideal 理想篇

Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚)

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. (Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist)

如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 (挪威剧作家 易卜生)

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them. (Mark Twain, American writer)

就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin Roosevelt, American president)

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。(美国总统 罗斯福)

When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. (Abraham Lincoln, American president)

如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国总统 林肯)

3. Love 爱情篇

Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)

离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。(法国作家 比西·拉比旦)

Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato, ancient Creek philosopher)

每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)

初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。(英国剧作家 萧伯纳)

Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings, American humorist)

友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。(美国幽默作家 比林斯)

Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, British poet)

友谊是没有羽翼的爱。(英国诗人 拜伦)

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)

并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。(美国科学家 爱因斯坦)

4. 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 萧伯纳)

A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 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)

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地发现了另外的资料。 (美国幽默作家 富兰克林)

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)

倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林)

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)

Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)

知识就是力量。(英国哲学家 培根)

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

如果你年轻时不学会思考，那就永远不会。（美国发明家 爱迪生）

5. Education教育篇

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H. B. Adams, American historian)

教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯)

And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)

勤于学习的人才能乐于施教。(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，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British educator)

教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢)

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)

教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金)

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)

Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)

教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)

教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)

Genius 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)

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)

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer)

举止是一面镜子，每个人的形象都能呈现出来。（德国剧作家、诗人、思想家 歌德）

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)

投资知识，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林)

Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)

教育的目的在于品德的形成。（英国哲学家 斯宾塞）

Example is better than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer)

言教不如身教。（英国作家 约翰逊）

6. Work 工作篇

In order that people may be happy in their work, these things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin, British writer)

为了使人们在工作的时感到快乐，必须做到以下三点；他们一定要胜任自己的工作；他们不可做得太多；他们必须对自己的工作有成就感。(英国作家 罗斯金)

Work is more that a necessary for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity and creativity. (Leonard R. Sayles, British writer)

对大多数人来说，工作不仅仅是一种必需，它还是人们生活的焦点，是他们的个性和创造性的源泉。(英国作家 塞尔斯)

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. (Thomas Carlyle, British historian)

工作是良药，能医治一切困扰人的疾苦。(英国历史学家 卡莱尔)

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。 (英国首相 丘吉尔)

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)

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)

Every man’s work, whether it be literature of music of pictures or architecture of anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (Samuel Bertler, American educator)

每个人的工作，不管是文学、音乐、美术、建筑还是其他工作，都是自己的一幅画像。(美国教育家 勃特勒)

7. Literature ＆ Art文艺篇

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. (Samuse Johnson, British writer and critic)

文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊)

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve, British dramatist)

音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。(英国剧作家 康格里夫)

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face their own.(Jonathan Swift, British writer)

讽刺是一面镜子，观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。(英国作家 斯威夫特)

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downward tendency. (Johann 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候是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德)

The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker)

风景属于看风景的人。(美国思想家 爱默生)

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (Len Tolstoy, Russian writer)

艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家体验到的感情的传递。(俄国作家 托尔斯泰)

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it! (Robert Motherwell, American painter)

艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀！(美国画家 马赦韦尔)

8. Struggle 奋斗篇

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil tears and sweat. (Winston Churchill, British politician)

我所能奉献的没有其他，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。(英国政治家 丘吉尔)

Man errs so long as he strives. (Johan Wolfgang Goethe, German poet and dramatist)

人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 (德国诗人、剧作家 歌德)

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. (Jean Jacques Rousseau, French thinker)

忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。 (法国思想家 卢梭)

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. (Emerson, American thinker)

进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 (美国思想家 爱默生)

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”. (Bonaparte Napoleon, French emperor)

凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。(法国皇帝 拿破仑)

You’re never a loser until you quit trying. (Mike Ditka, American football coach)

在停止努力之前，你永远不是失败者。（美国橄榄球联盟的橄榄球教练 迪特卡）

9. Culture 文化篇

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. (Somerset Maugham, British novelist and dramatist)

文化的价值在于它对人类品性的影响。除非文化能使品性变为高尚、有力。文化的作用在于裨益人生，它的目标不是美，而是善。(英国小说家、戏剧家 毛姆)

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)

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhal, 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)

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)

10. Family 家庭篇

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning un-necessary. (D.C, Fisher, American female novelist)

母亲不是赖以依靠的人，而是使依靠成为不必要的人。(美国女小说家 菲席尔)

All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer)

所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；而每个不幸的家庭各有各自的不幸。(俄国文学家 托尔斯泰)

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. (Abraham Lincoln, American president)

我之所有，我之所能，都归功于我天使般的母亲。(美国总统 林肯)

Every soil where he is well, is to a valiant man his natural country. (Masinger Phililp, British dramatist)

勇敢的人随遇而安，所到之处都是故乡。(英国剧作家 菲利普)

Go where he will, the wise man is at home His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. (R. W. Emerson, American thinker)

明智者四海为家—地球是他的壁炉，蓝天是他的客厅。(美国思想家 爱默生)

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist and poet)

无论是国王还是农夫，家庭和睦是最幸福的。(德国剧作家、诗人 歌德)

Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out. (Michel de Montaigne, French thinker and essayist)

婚姻好比鸟笼，外面的鸟想进进不去；里面的鸟儿想出出不来。(法国思想家、散文家 蒙田)

11. Experience 经验篇

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Law Vernon, British writer)

经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。(英国作家 弗农)

Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist)

经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，事实上，直到那时才算得上经验。(英国小说家 鲍恩)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.(Aldous Leonard Huxley, American writer)

经验不会从天而降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。(美国作家 郝胥黎)

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman)

经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。(英国政治家 迪斯雷利)

Experience is the name give their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde, British playwright and poet)

经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。(英国剧作家、诗人 王尔德)

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. (Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician)

有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。(英国哲学家、数学家 罗素)

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British poet and critic)

一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。(英国诗人、批评家 洛威尔)

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician)

世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。(英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海)

To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. (Stanislars I, Polish king)

青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。(波兰国王 斯坦尼劳斯一世)

To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship which illuminates only the track it has passed. (Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet)

对于大多数人，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。(英国诗人 柯勒津治)

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: To be himself. (Ibsen Norwegian Writer )

人的第一天职是什么？答案很简单：不伪饰自己。（挪威作家 易卜生）

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold. (Josh Billing, American Author)

人生不在于掌握一手好牌，而在于把你掌握的牌打好。（美国作家 比林斯）

12. Adversity逆境篇

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

苦难显才华，好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)

虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

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. (Hugh Black, American writer)

水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。(美国作家 布莱克)

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand, German novelist)

我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己生活态度的自由。(德国小说家 弗兰克)

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)

从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。(美国总统 肯尼迪)

I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller, American writer)

我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)

灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。(美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔)

No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. (B. T. Washington, American educator)

除了我们自己以外，没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强，就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。(美国教育家 华盛顿)

Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals. (Lucius Anaeus Seneca, ancient Roman philosopher)

乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加)

The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)

中文的“危机”分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。(英国作家 布瑞杰)

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (T. Carlyle, British writer)

生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。（英国散文家、历史学家 卡莱尔）

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. (Mark Twain, American writer)

每个人都是一个月亮，都有他不可展示给别人的阴暗面。（美国作家 马克·吐温）

13. Sorrow悲伤篇

A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)

一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼，对每个人都是时时必需的。一艘船如果没有压舱物，便不会稳定，不能朝着目的地一直前进。(德国哲学家 叔本华)

He who in adversity would have support, let him be generous while he rests secure. (Saki, British writer)

谁想在逆境中得到援助，就应在身处顺境时待人宽厚。(英国作家 萨基)

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel Eyquem Montaigne, French essayist)

害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了。(法国散文家 蒙田)

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. (John Milton, British poet)

失明本身并非是悲惨的，不能忍受失明才是悲惨的。(英国诗人 弥尔顿)

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffs predominating. (O. Henry, American writer)

人生是由呜咽、抽泣和微笑组成的，而在三者之中，抽泣处于支配地位。(美国作家 欧·亨利)

No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good. (Cicero, ancient Roman statesman)

把痛苦视为生活中最大的祸害的人不可能勇敢；把欢乐视为生活中最美妙的人不会自我节制。(古罗马政治家 西塞罗)

14. Business 商务篇

Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall. (Martin Tupper, American economist)

节约是穷人的造币厂，浪费是富人的陷阱。(美国经济学家 塔珀)

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. (Wiliam Rplph lnge, British writer and churchman)

当文学一半成为贸易，一半成为艺术时，那是它最繁荣的时期。(英国作家、牧师 英奇)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler, British writer)

世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望，要把支出超过收入，此乃一切进步的动力。(英国作家 勃特勒)

A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship. (John Davision Rockefeller, American businessman)

建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。(美国实业家 洛克菲勒)

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Leacock Stephen, Canadian economist)

广告可被视为一种长久蒙蔽人类智慧以期从中赚钱的技巧。(加拿大经济学家 斯蒂芬)

Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times people want advertising; in bad times they have to. (Bruce Barton, British economist)

不管是繁荣时期还是萧条时期，广告总会存在。繁荣时，人们想做广告；萧条时，人们不得不做广告。(英国经济学家 巴顿)

The best cure for the national economy would be economy. (Ashoey Cooper, British novelist)

拯救国家经济的最好办法就是节约。(英国小说家 库珀)

The trouble with the profit system has always been that is was highly unprofitable to most people. (E. B. White, American writer)

利润制度最大弊端始终是绝大多数的人是绝对无利可图的。(美国作家 怀特)

15. Others其他

Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. (Oliver Goldsimith, British poet)

过分喜欢权力就会不择手段。(英国诗人 哥尔德斯密斯)

We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get.(Bernard Baruch, American economist)

在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人，而不是想有所收获的人。(美国经济学家 巴鲁克)

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)

当一个人受到公众信任时，他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。(美国总统 杰斐逊)

When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.(John Stuart Mill, British economist)

当社会需要重建时，试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。(英国经济学家 穆勒)

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. (C. Colton Charles, British churchman)

欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。(英国牧师 查尔斯)

Wealth is like sea-water: the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)

财富就像海水：饮得越多，渴得越厉害；名望实际上也是如此。（德国哲学家 叔本华）