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1、英语名言精粹1.If you smile when one is around,you really mean it.如果你独自一人笑了，那是真心的笑。-Andy Rooney2.Wonders are many,and nothing is more wonderful then man.天下奇迹无数，却无一比人更奇妙。-Sophocles3.The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist.人应该生活，而非单纯生存。-Jack London4.The great advantage of telling the truth is

2、ones so much more likely tosound convincing.说真话最大的优势就是听上去很可能更令人信服。-Susan Howatch5.Misers are no fun to live,but they make great ancestors.与吝啬鬼生活毫无乐趣，但他们却为后人称道不已。-Tom Snyder6.There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,yearning for somethingbetter,nobler and holier than it knows before.每个人都有向

3、往的时候，渴望比以前更美好，更高贵，更神圣的东西。-H.W.Beecher7.Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of you life.战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。-G.Meredith8.He that is once born,once die.有生比有死。-Herbert9.The more alternative,the more difficult the choice.选择越多越难抉择。-Abbe DAllaiva10.The fox changes his skin but not his habit

4、s.江山易改，本性难移。-Suetonius11forgiveness to the injured does belong;but they never pardon who havedone wrong.受害者有权宽恕，但他们永远也不能原谅那些害人者。-Dryden 加德莱顿12There is a time to speak and a time to be silent该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。-Caxton 卡克斯顿13People with tact have less to retract.智者悔少。-Arnold Glasgow 阿诺德格拉斯哥14To do injustic

5、e is more disgraceful than to suffer it.制造不公比承受不公更可耻。-Plato 柏拉图15Regardless of how much patience we have,we would prefer never to use anyof it.无论我们有多大的耐心，我们都希望永远不要用到它。-James TO.OBrien 詹姆士T奥布赖恩16Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big有些人从来不有夸张他们只是记错了。-Audrey Snead 奥德丽斯尼德17Thieves respect p

6、roperty;they merely wish the property to become theirproperty that they may more perfectly respect it.盗贼尊重财产权，他们只是希望财产能变成他们的财产，因为这样，他们才能更尊重这财产权。-GK Chesterton GK切斯特顿18. In a way,nobody sees a flower really. It is so small;we havent time.Andto see takes time,as to have a friend takes time.在某种意义上，没有人真

7、正看过一朵花。花那么小，我们又没有时间，要看可要花时间的，就像交朋友也要花时间。-Georgia Okeeffe 乔治亚 奥基夫19How majestic is naturalnessI have never met a man whom I reallyconsidered a great man who was not always natural and simple.Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.自然是多么高贵呀。我从不认为不自然不简单的人是真正伟大的人。矫揉造作不可避免的会暴露不能肯定自己

8、的人。-Charles Daves 查尔斯戴夫斯20The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。- HW Arnold HW阿诺德21.People want know how much you care before they care how much you know.人们首先想知道你在乎多少，然后才在乎你知道多少。-James Hind 詹姆斯.欣德22.There are good man everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.到处

9、都是好人，我只希望他们声音大一些。-Louis LAmour 路易斯.拉穆尔23.The better we feel about ourselves,the fewer times we have to knocksomebody else down to feel tall.我们的自我感觉越良好，我们就越用不着把别人打倒在地才觉得自己伟大。-Brian Lanker 布赖恩 .兰克24.The miracle is this-the more we share,the more we have.神奇的是我们分享得越多，我们拥有的也越多。-Leonard Nimoy 伦纳德.莫尼哀25.It

10、 is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,butat night it is another thing.在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的，但在夜晚就是另外一回事。-Hemingway 海明威26.A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing theterrible things her children do because she is enchanted with thewonderful things her gr

11、andchildren do.如果有一天，母亲不在为儿子做的糟糕事操心，而为她的孙子孙女做的令人惊讶的事而欣喜，她就是一位真正的祖母。-Loise Wyse 落伊丝.怀斯27.Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyedby defeat,and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in onewho triumphs equally over defeat and victory.在这个世界的某一地方，每个人都会失败，有的人为

12、失败所毁，有的人被成功变得小气吝啬。同时战胜失败和成功的人才是了不起的人。-John Steinbeck 约翰. 斯坦贝克28.Dont fool yourself that you going to have it all. You are not.Psychologically,having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvellousthing about human beings is that we perpetually reaching for the stars.The more we have,the more we w

13、ant. And for this reason,we never have itall.别欺骗自己以为你能得到一切。你办不到。从心理学角度说，拥有一切甚至都不是一个有意义的概念。人类的精彩之处是我们永远伸着手想摘星星。我们得到的越多，想要的就越多。由于这个原因，我们永远不能拥有一切。-Joyce Brothers 乔伊斯. 布拉泽斯29.There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.有许多人将他们的想象当做记忆。-Josh Billings 乔希.比林斯30.To err is human,to

14、 forgive,divine.人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。-Pope 蒲柏31People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection,which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will neverfind it.人们往往坚持完美而扔掉了一些他们原本可以有的东西，但他们是不可能拥有完美的，虽然他们还在永远找不到完美的地方到处搜寻。Edith Schaeffer 伊迪丝谢弗32What we all tend to complain about m

15、ost in other people are thosethings we dont like about ourselves.在别人身上我们抱怨最多的东西往往也是我们自身中自己也不喜欢的东西。William Wharton 威廉沃顿33Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.只有上帝才处于可以俯视所有人的位置。Sarah Brown 萨拉布朗34. There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.忍耐超过了一定的限度便不再是美德了。Edmund Burke 埃德

16、蒙伯克35Everyone complains of his memory,and nobody complains of hisjudgment.每个人都在抱怨他的记忆力，却没有人抱怨他的判断力。La Rockefoucauld 拉罗什富科36. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.我们惟一不得不害怕的就是害怕本身。Franklin Roosevelt 富兰克林罗斯福37Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river,they would i

17、nsist upon floating upstream有许多人总故意作对，他们即使掉进河里，也还会坚持往上游漂。Josh Billings 乔希比林斯38Solitary shots should be ignored,but when they come from severaldirections,Its time to pay attention. As someone once said,“Ifone calls you a donkey,ignore him. If two call you a donkey,check for hoof prints. If three call you a donkey,get a saddle.“不要理睬零星的枪声，但如果枪声来自几个方向就该注意了。就像有人曾经说过：“一个人叫你驴子，别理他。两个人叫你驴子，检查一下蹄印。三个人叫你驴子，还是买一副鞍座来吧。 ”Marshall Shelley 马歇尔谢利39There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind whichmends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.