Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)
離別之於愛情好比風之於火,它能將小火熄滅,使大火熊熊燃燒。(法國作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)
Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato ancient Creek philosopher)
每個戀愛中的人都是詩人。(古希臘哲學家 柏拉圖)
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)
初戀就是壹點點笨拙外加許許多多好奇。(英國劇作家 肖伯納.G)
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings. American humorist)
友誼就像陶器,破了可以修補;愛情好比鏡子,壹旦打破就難重圓。(美國幽默作家 比林斯 .J.)
Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, Bdritish poet)
友誼是沒有羽翼的愛。(英國詩人 拜倫.G,G)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)
並非地球引力使人墜入愛河。(美國科學家)
人生篇:
Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher)
從錯誤中吸取教訓是教育極為重要的壹部分。(英國哲學家 羅素 . B .)
Neither beliver nor reject anything, because any other person has rejected of believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judging truth and error, Use it. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
不要因為別的人相信或否定了什麽東西,妳也就去相信它或否定它。上帝贈予妳壹個用來判斷真理和謬誤的頭腦。那妳就去運用它吧/ (美國總統 傑斐遜 .T.)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic)
壹次痛苦的經驗抵得上千百次的告誡。(英國詩人、批評家 洛威爾 .J. R .)
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. (Samuel Smiles, British writer)
實用的知識只有通過親身體驗才能學到。(英國作家 斯邁爾斯 . S .)
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)
諺語是從長期經驗中獲得的短句。(班牙作家 塞萬提斯.M.)
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 nathematician)
世界的悲劇就在於有想象力又缺乏經驗,而有經驗的人又缺乏想象力。(英國哲學家、數學家 懷特海 .A . N.)
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Grorge Santayana, Spain-born American philosopher and poet)
教育之艱苦在於從意念中獲得經驗。(西班牙裔美國哲學家、詩人 桑塔亞那.G.)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill. British statesman)
傻瓜有時候也是對的。(英國政治家 丘吉爾 .W.)
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)
青年而有老年之經驗,老年而有青年之朝氣,就能使人生發揮更大的作用。(波蘭國王 斯坦尼勞斯壹世)
政治篇:
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Burke Edmund, British statesman)
權力越大,濫用職權的危險就越大。(英國政治家 埃德蒙.B.)
The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
最大的惡和最兇的罪是貧窮。(英國劇作家 肖伯納.G.)
The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury. (William Mckinley, American president)
國會的最高職責是恢復始終是國家財政最堅實支柱的保護性立法,以制止財政赤字。(美國總統 科金利.W.)
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
人民是完全可以信賴的,應該讓他們聽到壹切真實和虛偽的東西,然後作出正確的判斷。倘使讓我來決定,我們應該是有壹個政府而不要報紙呢,還是應該有報紙而不要政府,我會毫不猶豫選擇後者。(美國總統 傑斐遜.T.)
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish religious philowopher)
暴君死了,他統治也就結束;烈士死了,他的統治剛開始。(丹麥宗教哲學家 基爾克戈德.S.)
There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)
在王座的後面還有比國王本人更偉大東西。(英國政治家 皮特.W.)
To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)
要了解政府的政績只需要觀察民情。(國籍不明書信代理人 朱尼厄斯)
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)
欲知權力帶來的痛苦,去問那些當權者;欲知權力帶來的樂趣,去問那些追逐權勢者:權力帶來的痛苦是真實的,而權力帶來的樂趣只不過是憑空想象的。(英國牧師 查爾斯.C.C.)
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. (Oliver Goldsimith, British poet)
過分喜歡權力就會不擇手段。(英國詩人 哥爾德斯密斯.O.)
We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. (Bernard Baruch, Averican economist)
在政治中我們需要能有所奉獻的人,而不是想有所收獲的人。(美國經濟學家 巴魯克.B.)
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson, American President)
當壹個人受到公眾信任時,他就應該把自己看作公眾的財產。(美國總統 傑斐遜.T.)
When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. (John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist)
當社會需要重建時,試圖墨守舊的藍圖重建它是徒勞無益的。(英國經濟學家 穆勒.J.S.)