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英语谚语500句 A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。
A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward. 色厉内荏。
A burden of one's choice is not felt. 爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives. 猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king. 人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies. 病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome. 常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity. 穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need. 需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found. 没有十全十美的朋友。
'After you' is good manners. “您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife. 夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man's best wealth. 妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar. 说大话者多谎言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green. 君子之交淡如水。
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend. 戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
A leopard cannot change its spots. 积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A light heart lives long. 静以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul. 浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot. 狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies. 敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end. 天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。
All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well. 结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions. 不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can. 凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. 一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends. 什么人交什么朋友。
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。
A man without money is no man at all. 一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way. 心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother's love never changes. 母爱永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。
A new broom sweeps clean. 新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks. 老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year. 瑞雪兆丰年。
A sound mind in a sound body. 健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
A still tongue makes a wise head. 寡言者智。
A stitch in time saves nine. 小洞不补，大洞吃苦。
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe. 身正不怕影子斜。
A wise head makes a close mouth. 真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。
A year's plan starts with spring. 一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings. 好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite. 吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love's eyes. 情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never. 不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray. 问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。
Blood will have blood. 血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good. 读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business. 公事公办。
Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it. 读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees. 一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck. 谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety. 小心驶得万年船。
Cheats never prosper. 骗人发不了财。
Children are what the mothers are. 耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend. 择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won't fall. 做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study. 学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone. 水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Content is better than riches. 知足者常乐。
Count one's chickens before they are hatched. 蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. 来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk. 循序渐进。
Cry for the moon. 海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature. 习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy. 有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond. 强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by. 己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying. 与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now. 机不可失，时不再来。
Do nothing by halves. 凡事不可半途而废。
Don't claim to know what you don't know. 不要不懂装懂。
Don't have too many irons in the fire. 不要揽事过多。
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. 不要小题大做。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 今日事，今日毕。
Don't put the cart before the horse. 不要本末倒置。
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自找麻烦。
Don't try to teach your grandmother to **** eggs. 不要班门弄斧。
Do well and have well. 善有善报。
Each bird love to hear himself sing. 孤芳自赏。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 早睡早起身体好。
Easier said than done. 说得容易，做得难。
Easy come, easy go. 来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
Eat to live, but not live to eat. 人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
Envy has no holidays. 忌妒之人无宁日。
Even Homer sometimes nods. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends. 亲兄弟，明算账。
Every advantage has its disadvantage. 有利必有弊。
Everybody's business is nobody's business. 人人负责，等于没人负责。
Every day is not Sunday. 好景不常在。
Every dog has his day. 谁都有得意的时候。
Every door may be shut, but death's door. 人生在世，唯死难逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow. 各人有各人的苦恼。
Every little helps a mickle. 聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost. 人不为己，天诛地灭。
Every man has his faults. 金无足赤，人无完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse. 萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
Every man has his weak side. 人人都有弱点。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 自己的命运自己掌握。
Every minute counts. 分秒必争。
Every mother's child is handsome. 孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot. 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old. 东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Example is better then percept. 说一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. 经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought. 吃一堑，长一智。
Fact speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Far from eye, far from heart. 眼不见，心不烦。
Far water does not put out near fire. 远水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin. 一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance. 恐惧源于无知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. 隔墙有耳。
Fire and water have no mercy. 水火无情。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 火是一把双刃剑。
First come, first served. 先来后到。
First impressions are half the battle. 初次见面，印象最深。
First think and then speak. 先想后说。
Fools grow without watering. 朽木不可雕。
Fool's haste is no speed. 欲速则不达。
Fools has fortune. 呆人有呆福。
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. 愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。
Forbidden fruit is sweet. 禁果格外香。
Fortune favors those who use their judgement. 机遇偏爱善断之人。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. 风水轮流转。
Four eyes see more than two. 集思广益。
Friends agree best at distance. 朋友之间也会保持距离。
Friends are thieves of time. 朋友是时间的窃贼。
Friends must part. 再好的朋友也有分手的时候。
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence. 天才不过是勤奋而已。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 众口铄金，积毁销骨。
God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。
Gold will not buy anything. 黄金并非万能。
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly. 以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。
Good health is over wealth. 健康是最大的财富。
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth. 良药苦口利于病。
Good watch prevents misfortune. 谨慎消灾。
Great barkers are no biters. 好狗不挡道。
Great hopes make great man. 伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
Great men have great faults. 英雄犯大错误。
Great men's sons seldom do well. 富不过三代。
Great trees are good for nothing but shade. 大树底下好乘凉。
Great wits have short memories. 贵人多忘事。
Greedy folks have long arms. 心贪手长。
Guilty consciences make men cowards. 做贼心虚。
Habit cures habit. 心病还需心药医。
Handsome is he who does handsomely. 行为漂亮才算美。
Happiness takes no account of time. 欢乐不觉时光过。
Happy is he who owes nothing. 要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others. 吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。
Harm set, harm get. 害人害己。
Hasty love, soon cold. 一见钟情难维久。
Health is better than wealth. 健康胜过财富。
Health is happiness. 健康就是幸福。
Hear all parties. 兼听则明。
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. 自己不动，叫天何用。
He is a fool that forgets himself. 愚者忘乎所以。
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 背后说好话，才是真朋友。
He is a wise man who speaks little. 聪明不是挂在嘴上。
He is lifeless that is faultless. 只有死人才不犯错误。
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself. 正人先正己。
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. 自嘲者不会让人见笑。
He is wise that is honest. 诚实者最明智。
He knows most who speaks least. 大智若愚。
He laughs best who laughs last. 谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
He sets the fox to keep the geese. 引狼入室。
He that climbs high falls heavily. 爬得越高，摔得越重。
He that will not work shall not eat. 不劳动者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground. 逆水行舟，不进则退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion. 经常诉苦，没人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. 想不犯错误，就一事无成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing. 收获与风险并存。
History repeats itself. 历史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy. 做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. 抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. 朋友不能阿谀奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me. 上当一回头，再多就可耻。
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you. 人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you. 耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 杀鸡取卵。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success. 勤奋是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace. 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it. 挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easy to be wise after the event. 事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open. 创业容易守业难。
It is hard to please all. 众口难调。
It is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk. 覆水难收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome. 万事开头难。
It is the unforeseen that always happens. 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It never rains but it pours. 不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman. 十年树木，百年树人。
Jack of all trades and master of none. 门门精通，样样稀松。
Judge not from appearances. 人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Kill two birds with one stone. 一箭双雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it. 君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms. 普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. 博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live. 活着，为了学习。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
Learn not and know not. 不学无术。
Learn to walk before you run. 先学走，再学跑。
Let bygones be bygones. 过去的就让它过去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie. 别惹麻烦。
Let the cat out of the bag. 泄漏天机。
Lies can never changes fact. 谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs. 谎言站不长。
Life is but a span. 人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is. 人过半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses. 人生并不是康庄大道。
Life without a friend is death. 没有朋友，虽生犹死。
Like a rat in a hole. 瓮中之鳖。
Like author, like book. 文如其人。
Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。
Like for like. 一报还一报。
Like knows like. 惺惺相惜。
Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。
Like teacher, like pupil. 什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
Like tree, like fruit. 羊毛出在羊身上。
Little things amuse little minds. 小人无大志。
Look before you leap. 摸清情况再行动。
Lookers-on see more than players. 当局者迷，旁观者清。
Losers are always in the wrong. 胜者为王，败者为寇。
Lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回。
Love at first sight. 一见钟情。
Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。
Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。
Love is full of trouble. 爱情充满烦恼。
Love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情。
Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
Make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。
Make your enemy your friend. 化敌为友。
Man is the soul of the universe. 人是万物之灵。
Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。
Many hands make light work. 众人拾柴火焰高。
Many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. 有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。
Measure for measure. 针锋相对。
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英语名言
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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
