英语名人名言大全
moneyspentonthebrainisneverspentinvain.(智力投资绝白花)constantdroppingwearsthestone.(滴水穿石。
)experienceisthemotherofwisdom.（经验是智慧之母。
）everymanishisownworstenemy.(一个人最大人就是他自己。
)sayinganddoingaretwodifferentthings.(说和做是迥然不同的两回事。
)actionsspeaklouderthanwords.(行动比语言更响亮。
)fromsmallbeginningscomesgreatthings.(伟大始于渺小。
)wisdominthemindisbetterthanmoneyinthehand.（脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。
）thevoiceofonemanisthevoiceofnoone.(一个人的声音没有力量。
)agreatshipasksfordeepwaters.（大船要走深水。
）whilethereislife,thereishope.（有生命便有希望\\\/留得青山在,哪怕没柴烧）twoheadsarebetterthanone.(一人不及二人智;三个臭皮匠,胜个过一个诸葛亮。
)wisemenlearnbyothermen'smistakes;foolsbytheirown.(聪明人从别人的错误中学得教训；笨人则自己付出代价。
他山之石可以攻玉。
)goodcompanyontheroadistheshortestcut.(行路有良伴就是捷径。
)ittakesallsortstomakeaworld.(世界是由各种不同的人所组成的。
)nothinggreatwaseverachievedwithoutenthusiasm.(无热情成就不了伟业。
)greatworksareperformednotbystrengthbutbyperseverance.(没有恒心只有力量是完不成伟业。
)itisnevertoolatetolearn.(活到老，学到老。
)itisnevertoolatetomend.(亡羊补牢，犹时未晚。
)thesecretofsuccessisconstancyofpurpose.（成功的秘诀在于持之于恒。
）misfortunesnevercomealone\\\/single.(祸不单行。
)misfortunescomeonwingsanddepartonfoot.(遭祸容易脱祸难。
)misfortunestelluswhatfortuneis.(不经灾难不知福。
)toanoptimisteverychangeisachangeforthebetter.(对于乐观者总是越变越好。
)truthneverfearsinvestigation.(事实从来不怕调查。
)agoodmedicinetasksbitter.（良药苦口。
）greatmindsthinkalike.（英雄所见略同。
）stormsmaketreestakedeeperroots.（风暴使树木深深扎根。
）liveandletlive.(自己生活也让别人生活。
)betterlatethannever.(迟做总比不做好；晚来总比不来强。
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英语名言警句大全
英语励志名言Nodreamistoobig,andnodreameristoosmall.梦想再大也不嫌大，追梦的人再小也不嫌小。
Itdoesn'tmatterhowmanytimesyoufail.Whatmattersishowmanytimesyoustandupandtryagain.失败多少次不重要，重要的是你能重新站起来多少次，并且继续前行。
Amancanbedestroyedbutnotdefeated.人可以被毁灭，但不可以被打败。
Atrulyhappypersonisonewhocanenjoythescenerywhileonadetour.真正快乐的人是那种在走弯路时也不忘享受风景的人。
Yougottoputthepastbehindbeforeyoucanmoveon.放下过去，才能前行。
Thehardpartisn'tmakingthedecision.It'slivingwithit.做出决定并不困难，困难的是接受决定。
Themostimportantthinginlifeisnothowlongyouwilllive,butwhomyouarelivingwith.人生不问长短，但求白首同心之人。
Timewillbringasurprise,ifyoubelieve.时间会带来惊喜，如果你相信的话。
Whatmakeslifedrearyisthewantofamotive.没有了目的，人生便暗淡无光。
Whatothersthinkisnotimportant.Howyoufeelaboutyourselfisallthatmatters.别人怎么想并不重要，你怎么看自己才是关键。
Goodorbadwemustalllive.无论生活是悲是喜，我们都须承受。
Don'tcrybecauseitisover,smilebecauseithappened.不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，因为你曾经拥有。
经典英文名人名言
All for one, one for all. 人人为我，我为人人— [法] Dumas pre大仲马 Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而生存，我为生存而食。
—— Socrates 苏底 Easy come, easy go. 易得者亦易 —— Hazlitt赫斯特 Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 爱，统治了他的王国，不用一枝利剑。
—— Herbert 赫伯特 We soon believe what we desire. 我们欲望中的东西，我们很快就信以为真。
—— Chaucer乔叟 The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 黎明前的时分是最黑暗的。
—— Fuller 富勒 The longest day has an end. 最难过的日子也有尽头。
—— Howell 贺韦尔 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 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 手中的一只鸟胜于林中的两只鸟。
—— Heywood 希伍德 One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
—— Taverner 泰维纳 A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink. 一个人可以把马带到河边，但他不能令它饮水。
—— Heywood 希伍德 One cannot eat one’s cake and have it. 一个人不能把他的糕饼吃掉之后还留在手上。
—— Davies 戴维斯 Time is money. 时间就是金钱。
—— Benjamin Franklin富兰克林 Time and tide wait for no man. 时间不等人。
—— Scott 斯科特 There is no rose without a thorn. 没有玫瑰花是不长刺的。
—— Ray 雷 Lookers-on see most of the game. 旁观者清。
—— Smedley 斯密莱 Beggars cannot be choosers. 行乞者不得有选择。
—— Heywood 希伍德 First catch your hare. 首先必须捕获兔子，然后才能宰之。
—— Thackeray 萨克雷 Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it. 胜利是不会向我走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。
—— M. Moore 穆尔 A great man is always willing to be little. 伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。
—— R. W. Emerson 爱默生 Cowards die many times before their deaths. 懦夫在未死之前，已身历多次死亡的恐怖了。
—— Julius Caesar 凯撒 Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. 但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能将它实现。
—— Jules Verne 凡尔纳 Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 早睡早起使人健康、富裕又聪明。
—— Benjamin Franklin 富兰克林 Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. 生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。
—— T. Fuller 富勒 Goals determine what you are going to be. 目标决定你将成为为什么样的人。
—— Julius Erving欧文 All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope. 人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词 — 等待和希望。
—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲马（法国作家） It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? 光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。
要看你为什么而勤劳。
—— H. D. Thoreau梭罗 You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success. 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
—— Charles Chaplin卓别林
英语经典名言名句
英文励志名言1、Doonethingatatime,anddowell.一次只做一件事，做到最好
2、Neverforgettosay“thanks”.永远不要忘了说“谢谢”!3、Keepongoingnevergiveup.勇往直前，决不放弃
4、Whateverisworthdoingisworthdoingwell.任何值得做的事就值得把它做好
5、Believeinyourself.相信你自己
6、Icanbecauseithinkican.我行，因为我相信我行
6、Actionspeaklouderthanwords.行动胜于言语
7、Neversaydie.永不气馁
8、Neverputoffwhatyoucandotodayuntiltomorrow.今日事今日毕
9、Thebestpreparationfortomorrowisdoingyourbesttoday.对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好
10、Liescanneverchangesfact.谎言终究是谎言。
11、Youcannotimproveyourpast,butyoucanimproveyourfuture.Oncetimeiswasted,lifeiswasted.你不能改变你的过去，但你可以让你的未来变得更美好。
一旦时间浪费了，Array就浪费了。
12、KnowlegdecanchangeyourfateandEnglishcanaccomplishyourfuture.知识改变命运，英语成就未来。
13、Don'taimforsuccessifyouwantit;justdowhatyouloveandbelievein,anditwillcomenaturally.如果你想要Array，不要去追求成功；尽管做你自己热爱的事情并且相信它，成功自然到来。
14、Jackofalltradesandmasterofnone.门门精通，样样稀松。
15、Judgenotfromappeara
英语名言警句大全。
1. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海知己，天涯若比邻。
2. A common danger causes common action. 同舟共济。
3. A contented mind is a continual \\\/ perpetual feast. 知足常4. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
5. A guest should suit the convenience of the host. 客便。
6. A letter from home is a priceless treasure. 家书抵万金。
7. All rivers run into the sea. 殊途同归。
8. All time is no time when it is past. 机不可失，时不再来。
9. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医。
10. As heroes think, so thought Bruce. 英雄所见略同。
11. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
12. Behind the mountains there are people to be found. 天外有天，山外有山。
13. Bad luck often brings good luck. 塞翁失马，安知非福。
14. Bread is the stall of life. 面包是生命的支柱。
(民以食为天。
)15. Business is business. 公事公办。
16. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 笨鸟先飞。
17. Courtesy costs nothing. 礼多人不怪。
18. Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。
19. Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境。
20. Difficult the first time, easy the second. 一回生，二回熟。
21. Do not change horses in mid-stream. 别在河流中间换马。
22. Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂。
23. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket. 别把所有的蛋都放在一个篮子里。
(不要孤注一掷。
)24. Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。
25. East or west, home is the best. 东奔西跑，还是家里好。
26. Experience is the best teacher. 实践出真知。
27. Fact is stranger than fiction. 事实比虚构更离奇。
(大千世界，无奇不有。
)28. Faith can move mountains. 信念能移山。
(精诚所至，金石为开。
)29. First impressions are half the battle. 先入为主。
30. Give as good as one gets. 一报还一报。
(以德报德，以怨还怨。
)31. Give everyone his due. 一视同仁。
32. Good wine needs no bush. 酒香不怕巷子深。
33. Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达。
(忙中常出错。
)34. He that promises too much means nothing. 轻诺者寡信。
35. He who has an art has everywhere a part. 一招鲜，吃遍天。
36. He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 千里之行始于足下。
37. Home is where the heart is. 心在哪里，哪里就是家。
38. If you are not inside a house, you don not know about its leaking. 不在屋里，不知漏雨。
(亲身经历才有体会。
)39. In peace prepare for war. 平时准备战时。
(居安思危。
)40. It is never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢，犹未为晚。
41. It six of one and half a dozen of the other. 彼此彼此。
42. Just has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
43. Keep something for a rainy day. 未雨绸缪。
44. Life is a span. 人生如朝露。
45. Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。
46. Meet plot with plot. 将计就计。
47. Merry meet, merry part. 好聚好散。
48. Mind acts upon mind. 心有灵犀一点通。
49. Never hit a man when he is down. 不要落井下石。
50. Never judge by appearances. 切莫以貌取人。
51. No fire without smoke. 无风不起浪。
52. Nurture passes nature. 教养胜过天性。
53. One is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
54. One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
(一花独放不是春。
)55. One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers. 曾经沧海难为水。
56. Out of sight, out of mind. 眼不见，心不烦。
57. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
58. Poverty is stranger to industry. 勤劳之人不受穷。
59. Rome was not built in a day. 罗马不是一日建成的。
(伟业非一日之功。
)60. Sense comes with age. 老马识途。
61. So many men, so many minds. 人心各不同。
62. Some thing is learned every time a book is opened. 开卷有益。
63. Strike while the iron is hot. 趁热打铁。
64. The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there. 车到山前必有路。
65. The heart is seen in wine. 酒后吐真言。
66. The older the wiser. 人老智多。
(姜还是老的辣。
)67. The worse luck now, the better another time. 风水轮流转。
68. Thoughts are free from toll. 思想不用交税。
(人人都可以自由思考。
)69. Time tries all things. 时间检验一切。
70. Use legs and have legs. 经常用腿，健步如飞。
71. Virtue never grows old. 美德常青。
72. Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。
73. What is done cannot be undone. 覆水难收。
74. Wine in, truth out. 酒后吐真言。
75. You are only young once. 青春只有一次。
76. You cannot burn the candle at both ends. 蜡烛不可两头燃。
(鱼和熊掌不可兼得。
)77. You cannot have your cake and eat it. 有得就有失。
(事难两全其美。
)78. You never know till you have tried. 事非经过不知难。
79. Youth will be served. 青春好作乐。
80. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. 无知的狂热是脱缰的野马。
英语名言大全
Failure is mother of success.If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels ... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -- Robert Schuller You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. -- Sydney Smith Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. -- Arnold Toynbee If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal
经典的英语格言（带翻译）
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomatHis ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban (1915-2002)If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine (354-430)Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo GalileiThe artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola (1840-1902)This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a reviewThe full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings (1894-1962)Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Assassins! - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestraI'll moider da bum. - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William ShakespeareIn theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. - Jan L.A. van de SnepscheutI find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Discours de la MethodeIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns (1896-1996)I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar DijkstraC makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. - Bjarne StroustrupA mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides (556-468bc)The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato (427-347 B.C.)The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite songHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknownWomen might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon StoneIf you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire (1694-1778)He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La ManchaWhen you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin (1903-1977)I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the GreatMaybe this world is another planet's Hell. - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot (1819-1880)Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven WrightI've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney (1901-1966)We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince LombardiThe optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch CabellA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto EcoBe nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy DuranteThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank ZappaPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint ExuperyLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac AsimovIf you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl SaganIt is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. BurginOnce is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi HendrixA clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe (1749-1832)Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard BachA witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire (1694-1778)Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens (1882-1950)The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger (1923-)Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will DurantI have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario AndrettiI do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket? - Bumper StickerGod, please save me from your followers! - Bumper StickerFill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy lifeFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball TeamTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel BrooksMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - Gore VidalWise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer (1805-80)It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy DavenportWhen you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac (1902-1984)I would have made a good Pope. - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. PrescottAnyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann (1903-1957)The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening positionIt is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demandsReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. - C. A. R. HoareMake everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happyI heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill HirstThree o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria SteinemNo one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar TupperThank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe (1749-1832)In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. HarperYou got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. - Yogi BerraI love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney (1901-1966)He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West (1892-1980)Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail GodwinUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger (1923-)The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton (1885-1945)Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)I don't even butte
