最简单的英语名言30句
nothing in the world is impossible if you set your mind to do it 有志者事竟成 never put off till tomorrow what you can do today 今日事,今日毕 the early bird catches the worm 早到的鸟儿有虫吃 it's better than never 有总比没有好 Pain past is pleasure. 过去的痛苦即快乐。
All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事必先难后易。
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 心之所愿，无事不成。
Where there is life, there is hope. 有生命必有希望。
I feel strongly that I can make it. 我坚信我一定能成功。
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. 与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。
The shortest answer is doing. 最简短的回答就是行动。
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. 成功的秘诀就是四个简单的字：多一点点。
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同 One picture is worth a thousand wards.百闻不如一见 Nothing ventured,nothing gained.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Life is full of ups and dowms.生活充满起伏。
It's no use crying over spilt milk.\\\/What's done cannot be undone.覆水难收 The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.隔岸风景好；邻家芳草绿。
Hunger is the best sauce.饥饿是最好的调味品 Better late than never.迟做总比不做好。
God helps those who help themselves.天助自助者。
Love me,love my dog.爱屋及乌 He bites off more than he can chew.贪多嚼不烂 To teach a fish how to swim.孔子面前卖文章。
Rome wasn't built in a day.伟业非一业建成。
Well begun,half done.好的开始是成功的一半 Every cloud has a silver lining.否极泰来 Look before you leap.三思而后行。
Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚 A little knowledge is dangerous.一知半解最危险 Clothes make the man.人要衣装，佛要金装 A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口 History repeats itself.历史会重演 Strike while the iron is hot.趁热打铁
30词英语名言
1. Do one thing at a time, and do well.一次只做一件事，做到最好
2. Never forget to say thanks .永远不要忘了说“谢谢”
3. Keep on going never give up.勇往直前， 决不放弃
4. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.任何值得做的事就值得把它做好
5. Believe in yourself.相信你自己
6. I can because i think i can.我行，因为我相信我行
7. Action speak louder than words.行动胜于言语
8. Never say die.永不气馁!9. Never put off what you can do today until tomorrow.今日事今日毕
10. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好
11.You cannot improve your past, but you can improve your future. Once time is wasted, life is wasted.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，生命就浪费了。
12.Knowlegde can change your fate and English can accomplish your future.知识改变命运，英语成就未来。
13.Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.如果你想要成功，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.Jack of all trades and master of none.门门精通，样样稀松。
15.Judge not from appearances.人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
16.Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
17.Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
18.Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。
19.Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
20.Kings have long arms.普天之下，莫非王土。
21.Knowledge is power.知识就是力量。
21.Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
22.Learn and live.活着，为了学习。
23.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
24.Learn not and know not.不学无术。
25.Learn to walk before you run.先学走，再学跑。
26.Let bygones be bygones.过去的就让它过去吧。
27.Let sleeping dogs lie.别惹麻烦。
28.Let the cat out of the bag.泄漏天机。
29.Lies can never changes fact.谎言终究是谎言。
30.Lies have short legs.谎言站不长。
31.Life is but a span.人生苦短。
32.Life is half spent before we know what it is.人过半生，方知天命。
33.Life is not all roses.人生并不是康庄大道。
34.Life without a friend is death.没有朋友，虽生犹死。
35.Like a rat in a hole.瓮中之鳖。
36.Like author, like book.文如其人。
37.Like father, like son.有其父必有其子。
38.Like for like.一报还一报。
39.Like knows like.惺惺相惜。
40.Like mother, like daughter.有其母必有其女。
41.Like teacher, like pupil.什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
42.Like tree, like fruit.羊毛出在羊身上。
弄了42条来，楼主可以选，望采纳~
30个英语好句带翻译
这些都是歌颂爱情的，能将就吧。
1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.我爱你不是因为你是谁，而是因为在你面前我可以是谁。
2.No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry. 没有男人或女人值得你为他（她）流眼泪的，值得的那一位，舍不得让你哭。
3.Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don‘t love you with all they have. 一个人不是你所想般爱你，并不代表那人不是全心全意地爱你。
4. There‘s always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.这个世界永远都会有一些伤害你的人，你要做的就是继续去信人和小心你下次信的人。
5. Don‘t waste your time on a man\\\/woman, who isn’t willing to waste their time on you.不要花时间在一个不愿花时间在你身上的人。
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 就算你不快乐也不要皱眉，因为你永不知道谁会爱上你的笑容。
7. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. 可能神要我们在遇到对的人之前先遇上一些错的人，这样当我们遇到生命中真正的人的时候就会更懂得珍惜和感激。
8. To the world ，you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. 对于世界来说，你可能只是一个人；但对某个人来说，你可能就是全世界。
英语爱情名言警句Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。
(法国作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)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)First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.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)友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。
(美国幽默作家 比林斯 .J.)Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, Bdritish poet)友谊是没有羽翼的爱。
(英国诗人 拜伦.G,G)Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。
(美国科学家)The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Burke Edmund, British statesman)权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。
(英国政治家 埃德蒙.B.)The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.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)国会的最高职责是恢复始终是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法，以制止财政赤字。
(美国总统 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)人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。
倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。
(美国总统 杰斐逊.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，他统治也就结束；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。
(丹麦宗教哲学家 基尔克戈德.S.)There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。
(英国政治家 皮特.W.)To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。
(国籍不明书信代理人 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)欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。
(英国牧师 查尔斯.C.C.)Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. (Oliver Goldsimith, British poet)过分喜欢权力就会不择手段。
(英国诗人 哥尔德斯密斯.O.)We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. (Bernard Baruch, Averican economist)在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人，而不是想有所收获的人。
(美国经济学家 巴鲁克.B.)When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson, American President)当一个人受到公众信任时，他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。
(美国总统 杰斐逊.T.)When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. (John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist)当社会需要重建时，试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。
(英国经济学家 穆勒.J.S.)Sweetheart, My thoughts are deep into you From the moment that I wake up And to the whole day through Happy Valentine's Day 亲爱的， 我深深地想念著你， 从我每天早上起来的那一刻起， 每一分每一秒直到一天结束。
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七十条英文爱情箴言Where there is great love, there are always miracles.哪里有真爱存在，哪里就有奇迹。
Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.爱情就像一只蝴蝶，它喜欢飞到哪里，就把欢乐带到哪里。
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.假如每次想起你我都会得到一朵鲜花，那么我将永远在花丛中徜徉。
Within you I lose myself, without you I find myself wanting to be lost again.有了你，我迷失了自我。
失去你，我多么希望自己再度迷失。
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。
Look into my eyes - you will see what you mean to me.看看我的眼睛，你会发现你对我而言意味着什么。
Distance makes the hearts grow fonder.距离使两颗心靠得更近。
I need him like I need the air to breathe.我需要他，正如我需要呼吸空气。
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.如果没有相等的爱，那就让我爱多一些吧。
Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.爱是长在我们心里的藤蔓。
If I know what love is, it is because of you.因为你，我懂得了爱。
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.爱情是生活最好的提神剂。
Love never dies.爱情永不死。
The darkness is no darkness with thee.有了你，黑暗不再是黑暗。
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.如果没有人爱我们，我们也就不会再爱自己了。
There is no remedy for love but to love more.治疗爱的创伤唯有加倍地去爱。
When love is not madness, it is not love.如果爱不疯狂就不是爱了。
A heart that loves is always young.有爱的心永远年轻。
Love is blind.爱情是盲目的。
Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases.爱情就像月亮，不增则减。
The soul cannot live without love.灵魂不能没有爱而存在。
Brief is life, but love is long.生命虽短，爱却绵长。
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.在爱人眼里，一千里的旅程不过一里。
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.爱比大衣更能驱走寒冷。
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.没有了爱，地球便成了坟墓。
My heart is with you.我的爱与你同在。
I miss you so much already and I haven't even left yet!尽管还不曾离开，我已对你朝思暮想
I'll think of you every step of the way.我会想你，在漫漫长路的每一步。
Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. 无论你身在何处，无论你为何忙碌，我都会在此守候。
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.热烈的爱情是不可抑制的渴望。
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.在这个世界上，男人最珍贵的财产就是一个女人的心。
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.That word is love. 有一个词可以让我们摆脱生活中所有的负担和痛苦，那就是爱情。
Every day without you is like a book without pages.没有你的日子就像一本没有书页的书。
Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.爱很难投入，但一旦投入，便更难走出。
Love is a light that never dims.爱是一盏永不昏暗的明灯。
May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight.愿你的爱乘着飞翔的白鸽，展翅高飞。
She who has never loved, has never lived.人活着总要爱一回。
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.生命如花，爱情是蜜。
No words are necessary between two loving hearts.两颗相爱的心之间不需要言语。
Precious things are very few in this world. That is the reason there is just one you.在这世上珍贵的东西总是罕有，所以这世上只有一个你。
You make my heart smile.我的心因你而笑。
The road to a lover's house is never long.通往爱人家里的路总不会漫长。
Why do the good girls, always want the bad boys?为何好女孩总喜欢坏男孩
Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning.和你在一起就像在一个清爽的早晨漫步。
It is never too late to fall in love.爱永远不会嫌晚。
To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world.对于世界，你可能只是一个人，但对于某个人，你却是整个世界。
Where there is love, there are always wishes.哪里有爱，哪里就有希望。
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. 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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
