英语名言名句
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. 知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
－Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生） If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. 要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
－Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林） If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. 如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
－Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生） Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
－Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦） You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. 你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
－Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林） The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible. 凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说不可能的。
－Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑） Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
－Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松） Genius only means hard-working all one's life. 天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
－Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫） You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
－Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯） The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
－Franklin Roosevelt（美国总统罗斯福） The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
－Mark Twain（美国作家马克?吐温） The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. 人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
－Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德） If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. 如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
－Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生） Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life. 理想是指路明灯。
没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。
－Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰） Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 不要放弃你的幻想。
当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
－Mark Twain（马克?吐温） Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
－Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚） A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. 知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
－Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生） If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. 要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
－Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林） If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. 如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
－Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生） Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
－Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦） You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. 你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
－Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林） The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible. 凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说不可能的。
－Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑） Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
－Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松） Genius only means hard-working all one's life. 天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
－Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫） You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
－Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯） The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
－Franklin Roosevelt（美国总统罗斯福） The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
－Mark Twain（美国作家马克?吐温） The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. 人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
－Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德） If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. 如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
－Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生） Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life. 理想是指路明灯。
没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。
－Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰） Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 不要放弃你的幻想。
当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
－Mark Twain（马克?吐温） Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
－Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）
5句关于学习的英语名言
well begin is half down 良好的开端是成功的一半 The planning lies with man, the outcome with Heaven. Man proposes, God disposes 谋事在人成事在天a thousand-li journey begins with the first step--the highest eminence is to be gained step by step 千里之行始于足下 Where there is a will, there is a way 世上无难事只要肯攀登He who does not advance loses ground.逆水行舟，不进则退
英语名言警句大全
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 庄子名言
苏格拉底I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance 智慧意味着自知无知柏拉图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)Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.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） Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. And only those can create brand-new pictures of life on the waves and tides of history who can understand themselves scientifically, design themselves correctly and manage themselves strictly. Plato 最先和最后的胜利总是征服自我,只有那些能够科学地认识自我,正确的设计自我,严格地管理自我的人,才能站在历史的潮头去开创崭新的人生。
---- 柏拉图For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.每个作用力都有相等的反政府的计划Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.年龄是个非常高的代价,成熟。
Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again总是屈服于诱惑的,因为它可能不会将您的方式再次。
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, if they get angry, they'll be a mile away and barefoot批评别人之前,步行一哩穿着他们的鞋子。
这样,如果人们生气的时候,他们就在一英里以外赤脚Middle age is when broadness of mind and narrowness of waist change places人到中年就开阔的理性和纤细的腰身换了位置。
Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.有人认为逻辑上提供了一个好的与真实的世界Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.经验是很有意思的东西。
它使你认识到你再次犯错时 Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it. （Plato, Ancint Grek philosopher） 人类对于不公正的行为加以指责，并非因为他们愿意做出这种行为，而是惟恐自己会成为这种行为的牺牲者。
（古希腊哲学家 柏拉图） As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers. (Plato , Ancient Greek Philosopher)正像空容器发出的声音最大，智力最低者最善于唠叨不休。
(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图) 亚里士多德卓越不是一种行为，而是一种习惯Excellence is not an act, but a habit
求一些简短精辟的英文名言警句
英语励志名言警句1• All things in their being are good for something. • 天生我才必有用。
2• Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
3• Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine • 失败乃成功之母。
4• For man is man and master of his fate.• 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
5• The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates• 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。
-- 苏格拉底6• None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. • 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
7• Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon • 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松8• Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin • 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。
-- 罗斯金9• What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot• 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。
-- 乔治 • 埃略特10• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- Lincoln • 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。
他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
11• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac • 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。
-- 巴尔扎克12• The good seaman is known in bad weather.• 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。
13• Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman • 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。
-- 纽曼14• Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving • 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。
-- 欧文15• An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson • 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。
-- 史蒂文森16• While there is life there is hope.• 一息若存，希望不灭。
-- 英国谚语17• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein • 不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。
-- 爱因斯坦18• You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin • 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。
-- 卓别林19• Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably. • 不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。
20• We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King • 我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。
-- 马丁 • 路德 • 金21• Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin• 能量加毅力可以征服一切。
-- 富兰克林22• Nothing seek, nothing find.• 无所求则无所获。
23• Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle• 生命不止，奋斗不息。
-- 卡莱尔24• A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step. • 千里之行，始于足下。
25• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. • 只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。
26• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw • 在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。
-- 萧伯纳27• A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison• 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。
--28• He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe 谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。
-- 歌德29• Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore • 胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。
-- 穆尔30• Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.• 人往高处走，水往低处流。
31• Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe• 失误是进取的代价。
-- 歌德32• The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. • 尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的33• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. • 一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
-- 巴勒斯34• Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。
( 英国哲学家 培根..)35• The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. (William Shakespeare) 人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。
(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. .) 36• We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) 我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。
(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)37. Goals determine what you’re going to be .人生的奋斗目标决定你将来成为怎样的人。
英语励志名言名句大全
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。
英语名言
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
