人生谚语精华（二）
Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧
Silence is golden. 沉默是金
Speak well of your friend，of your enemy say nothing. 隐恶扬善
Take things as they come. 逆来顺受
The ear1y bird catches the worm. 先到先得 Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月不饶人 To burn the cand1e at both ends. 自暴自弃
To count one's chickens before they are hatched. 实事求是
To make a mountain out of a mo1ehill. 小题大做 Too many cooks spoil tbe broth. 人多手脚乱 Well begun is half done. 事半功倍
When you are in Rome， do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗
Where there is life, there is hope. 留得青山在，不怕没材烧。
警世名言
1. Adversity makes men; prosperity, monsters. Adversity is a good schoolmaster. 生于忧患，死于安乐。
Explanation:
strengthened People's through characters struggle are against difficulties; they are weakened by comfort. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
2. Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 风雨同舟共相济，素不相识成真交。
Explanation: The most unlikely people will co-operate with one another when faced by a common danger.
3. In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 在人生的战场中，唯有日日前进不屈不挠始能获胜。
---English Proverb ---英国谚语
1. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. 人生应有目的，否则你的努力将属徒然。 ---Peters ---比得斯
2. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活而无目标，犹如航海之无指南针。 ---J.Ruskin ---鲁斯金
3. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity ; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
乐观者于一个灾难中看到一个希望，悲观者于一个希望中看到一个灾难。
4. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. 一个人怎样死去是没有关系的，问题在于他怎样去生活。 ---Samuel Johnson ---约翰逊
5. He who sees through life and death will meet with most success. 看破生死者始能成功。
6. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. 人生之要事在于确立伟大的目标与实现这目标的决心。 ---Goethe ---哥德
7. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 对一个意志坚强的心来说，无事不能为。 ---Heywood
---海伍德
8. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. 成功之秘诀乃为目标之有恒。
9. He that can have patience, can have what he will. 惟坚忍者始能遂其志。 ---B.Franklin ---富兰克林
10. The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. 成功之路无他，唯全力投入工作，而不稍存沽名钓誉之心。 ---Longfellow ---郎费罗
11. A good name is easier lost than won. 名誉失之易，而得之难。
12. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. 我们绝大多数的失败都是因为缺乏自信的缘故
思想性名言
Natural abilities are like natural plants ，that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large ，except they be bounded In by
experience．
Bacon ，Of Studies ，Essays
天生的能力好像天然生成的植物，必须通过学习加以修整；然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束，必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。
培根：《随笔·论学习》
As many languages as he has ，as many friends， as many arts and trades ，so many times is he a man．
Emerson ，Culture，The Conduct of Life竭尽全力掌握各种语言，结交各式朋友，精通各类技艺及行业，如此努力方能成为一个完整的人。
爱默生：《处世之道·论文化》
In a world as empirical as ours ，a youngster who does not know what he Is good at will not be sure what he is good for．
Edgar Friedenberg ，The Vanishing Adolescent
在我们这个经验的世界里，一个不懂得自己精通什么的青年不会确切地知道他的价值所在。
埃德加·弗里登伯格：《消失的青少年》
Skills vary with the man ．We must tread
a straight path and strive by that which is born in us．
Pindar ，Odes
技能因人而异、我们必须凭藉天生的资质引导我们执著前行，奋斗不息。
品达：《颂诗》
A man must not deny his manifest abilities ，for that is to evade his obligations． Robert Louis Stevenson ，The Treasure of Franchard
一个人不应否认他明显的能力，因为那便是对责任的逃避。
罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森：《弗朗查德的财宝》
we may judge a man’s ability by three things ：by what he has done （including the impression he has made on others ），by what he himself appears to believe he can do ，by our own dramatic imagination ，based on his immediate personality ，of what he might do． If these do not agree it is prudent to observe him further．
Charles Horton Cooley ，
Life and the Student
我们可以根据三件事来判断一个人的能力：他已做过什么（包括他留给别人的印象），他“自认为他能做什么，根据他的个性揣度他可能做什么。如果三者不能统一还应审慎地做进一步观察。
查尔斯·霍顿·库里：《生活与学生》
We cannot change anything unless we accept it ．Condemnation does not liberate it ，it oppresses．
Jung ，Psychological Reflections
对一件事情我们必先接受它，才能改变它。谴责并不能把我们从困扰中解脱出来，只会使之加剧。 荣格：《分析心理学论文集》
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness ；the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity．
Tagore ，Letters to a Friend
拒人千里源于分裂的意识，宽容大度源于统一和谐意识。
泰戈尔：《致友人的信》
A man dies still If he has done nothing ，
as one who has done much．
Homer ，Iliad
无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生。
荷马：《伊利亚特》
Let the end try the man．
Shakespeare ,Henry IV
让最终的结局检验世人。
莎士比亚：《亨利四世》
Seek not proud riches， but such as thou mayest get justly ，use soberly ，distribute cheerfully ，and leave contentedly．
Bacon ，Of Riches ，Essays
不要寻求令人称羡的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。
培根：《随笔·论财富》
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action．
Aristotle ，Nicomachean Ethics
在人类生命的竞技场，荣誉与奖赏眷顾善于行
动的人。
亚里士多德：《伦理学》
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much ，and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all． Georges Bernanos ，The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos
思想倘若不引发行动则意义不大，而行动倘若不是源于思想则毫无意义。
乔治·伯尔那诺：《乔治·伯尔那诺之最后论文集》
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has ，the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken．
Emerson ，Power，The Conduct of Life
无论一个人观察能力有多强，从认知到行动这一步总是难以跨越。
爱默生：《处世之道·论权力》
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death ．It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain ，but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present
being．
William Hazllit ,Table Talk
充满行动和危险的生活将减缓对死亡的恐惧。它不仅赋予我们承受痛苦的刚毅，而且时刻引导我们把握飘忽不定的现在。
威廉·黑兹利特：《席间闲谈》
Action is thought tempered by illusion．
Elbert Hubbard ，The Philistine
行动是被幻想淬了火的思想。
艾尔伯特·哈伯德：《市民阶层》
The quality of a life is determined by its activities．
Aristotle ，Nicomachean Ethics
生命的质量决定于它的活动。
亚里土多德：《伦理学》
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences ．No good is ever done in this world by hesitation ．Thomas Henry Huxley ，Aphorisms and Reflections
下定决心果断行动，并承担后果。在这世上犹豫不决成就不了任何事。
托·亨·赫胥黎：《警句与内省》
We cannot seek or attain health， wealth， learning ，justice or kindness in general． Action is always specific，concrete，individualized ，unique．
John Dewey ，Reconstruction in Philosophy笼统抽象的健康、财富、学识、公正或善心无法寻找，也不能获得。行动总是特定的、具体的、个性化的、独一无二的。
约翰·杜威：《哲学的重建》
I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity ，I have emerged from it not by means of any philosophy ，but owing to some imperative necessity of action． Betrand Russell ，The Conqust of Happiness 我时常沉入一种情绪中，感觉一切都是虚幻。使我从中解脱出来的不是什么哲学，而是不得不采取行动的需要。
伯特兰·罗素：《征服幸福》
Even if it doesn’t work ，there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action．
Henry Miller ，Remember to Remember
直接的行动即使不能奏效，也富有健康的朝气。
亨利·米勒：《为记忆而记忆》
A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes．
Samuel Butler ，The Way of All Flesh
生活是否成功依赖于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重担。
塞绍尔·小巴特勒；《众生之路》
Adapt or perish ，now as ever ，is Nature’s inexorable imperative．
H ．G． Wells ，Mind at the End of Its Tether 适者生，不适者灭，这是自然界一如既往、永不变更的规律。
赫·乔·威尔斯：《黔驴计穷》
If you want to slip Into a round hole ，you must make a ball of yourself．
George Eliot ，The Mill on the Floss
你想要钻入一个圆洞，你就必须将自己变为球
形。
乔治·爱略特：《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》
Always we like those who admire us ，but we do not always like those whom we admire． La Rochefoucauld ，Maxims
我们总是喜欢那些赞赏我们的人，但不一定喜欢我们赞赏的人。
拉罗什福科：《道德警句集》
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized ．It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings ，through no fault ，and no merit of my own． Einstein ，Ideas and Opinions
让每个人作为个人受到尊重，但不要让任何人成为偶像。我从众人那儿接受了过多的尊崇和敬意，这真是命运的嘲讽，因这既不是由于我的缺点，也不是出于我的美德。
爱因斯坦：《思想和见解》
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another ，not because he does not feel
them ，but because he is a man of high and heroic temper．
Aristotle ，Nicomachean Ethics
人们泰然自若地承受接踵而至的灾难，并不是由于感觉迟钝，而是由于具有崇高和英勇的品质，这时，尽管在厄运中，心灵美仍放射出灿烂光辉。 亚里士多德：《伦理学》