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。
求一些英语的名言，不要太复杂的，那种明显直译的不要，至少六句话
A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist ) 豁达者长寿。
(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.) Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.) The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker ) 健康是人生第一财富。
(美国思想家 爱默生. R. W.) All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience. (Philip Sideney, British satesman) 凡是没有实际经验的，都只是口头智慧。
(英国政治家 锡得尼 D .) Expericence is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Law Vernon, British writer) 经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。
(英国作家 弗农. L.) Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that ,it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist) 经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，事实上，直到那时才算得上经验。
(英国小说家 鲍恩 E.) Expericence is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Leonard Huxley, American writer) 经验不会从天而降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。
(美国作家 郝胥黎.A.L.) Experience is the child of thought , and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman) 经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
(英国政治家 迪斯雷利 B .) Experience is the na me give their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde, British playwriter and poet) 经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。
(英国剧作家、诗人 王尔德 O.) Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence. (Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician) 有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
(英国哲学家、数学家 罗素.B.) I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry, Americna statesman) 我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步，而那盏灯就是经验，对于未来，我只是能以过去来判断。
(美国政治家 享利.P.) Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher) 从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。
(英国哲学家 罗素 . B .) Neither beliver nor reject anything, because any other person has rejected of believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judging truth and error, Use it. (Thomas Jefferson, American president) 不要因为别的人相信或否定了什么东西，你也就去相信它或否定它。
上帝赠予你一个用来判断真理和谬误的头脑。
那你就去运用它吧\\\/ (美国总统 杰斐逊 .T.) One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic) 一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
(英国诗人、批评家 洛威尔 .J. R .) Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. (Samuel Smiles, British writer) 实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
(英国作家 斯迈尔斯 . S .) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer) 谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。
(班牙作家 塞万提斯.M.) The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and nathematician) 世界的悲剧就在于有想象力又缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。
(英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 .A . N.) The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Grorge Santayana, Spain-born American philosopher and poet) 教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。
(西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人 桑塔亚那.G.) The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill. British statesman) 傻瓜有时候也是对的。
(英国政治家 丘吉尔 .W.) To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. (Stanislars I, Polish king) 青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。
(波兰国王 斯坦尼劳斯一世) To most men , experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed. (Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet) 对于大多数人，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。
(英国诗人 柯勒津治. S .T .) Too much experience is a dangerous thing. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist) 经验过多反而危险。
(英国剧作家 王尔德 . O.) We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience. (Abraham Lincoln , American president) 除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。
(美国总统 林肯 . A .) 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.) 1. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. 做自己命运的主人及灵魂的统率。
2. If Mohammed will not come to the mountain, then the mountain must go to Mohammed. 山不就我，我向山行。
3. Where there’s a will there’s a way. 有志者事竟成。
4. Slow and steady wins the race. 锲而不舍事竟成 5.Boy’s, be ambitious. 年轻人应胸怀大志。
6. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. 人生最重要的是树立一个远大目标，并下定决心去实现。
7. It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. 决定人之苦乐的不是地点，也不是环境，而是思想。
8. Life would be to smooth if it had no rubs in it.生活若无波折险阻，就会过于平淡无奇。
9. All things in their being are good for something.天生我才必有用。
10. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
11. Failure is the mother of success.失败乃成功之母。
12. For man is man and master of his fate.人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
13. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.人生应该树立目标，否则会白白浪费精力。
14. None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.只有每天战胜生活的人，才配享受生活的自由。
15. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。
16. What makes life dreary is the want of motive.没有了原动力，生活便会沉郁无光。
17. Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.卓越的天才不屑走别人走过的路。
他寻找迄今尚未开拓的地区。
18. There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。
19. The good seaman is known in bad weather.惊涛骇浪中，方显英雄本色。
20. 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。
21. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.生活的目标是唯一值得寻找的财富。
22. Where there is life there is hope.生命满希望，前路由我创。
23. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.与其做一个成功的人，还不如做一个有价值的人。
24. You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。
25. 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。
26. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.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。
27. Energy and persistence conquer all things.能量加毅力可以征服一切。
28. Nothing seek, nothing find.无所求便无所获。
29. Cease to struggle and you cease to live.生命不止，奋斗不息。
30. Taking the first step stars thousand-mile journey.千里之行始于足下。
31. A strong man will struggle with storms of fate.强者能与命运的风暴抗争。
32. He who seizes the right moment, is the right man.谁能把握机运，谁就心想事成。
33. Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.胜利不会向我走来，我必须自己走向胜利。
34. Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed.全力以赴，你就会成功。
35. Man struggles upward, water flows downwards.人往高处走水往低处流。
1. Money doesn't grow on trees. 钱不是从天上掉下来的。
2. I know that my future is not just a dream. 我知道我的未来不是梦。
3. To convert defeat into victory. 反败为胜。
4. Youth means limitless possibilities. 年轻就是无限的可能。
5. Leave behind a clean world for future generations. 留给下一代一个清洁的地球。
6. You can do it too! 你也做得到
7. Get to another summit in your career. 开创职业生涯的另一个高峰。
8. Pursue breakthroughs in your life. 追求自我的突破。
9. Never say die. 永不放弃。
10. Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
11. Never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
12. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
13. Go for it! = Just do it! 加油
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14. No pain, no gain. 天下事没有不劳而获的东西。
15. Everyday and in every way I'm getting better. 每天每个方面我的生活都正在好转。
16. Time is money. 时间就是金钱。
17. Man can conquer nature. 人定胜天。
18. Better late than never. 只要开始，虽晚不迟。
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。
21A 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。
31A 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
奥斯卡颁奖典礼经典台词有哪些
文艺范的英文名言名句：I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.(我做任何事不过是为了有所回报,我总要得到报酬)In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.(哪怕是世界末日我都会爱着你)There is nothing I couldn’t give you, there is nothing I would deny you, if you would not deny me. Open you’re heart to me. 如果你不违背我,你要什么我就能给你什么,你要什么都可以.把你的心交给我吧.What the purpose of university is to find a suitable husband. 读大学的目的是找一个好丈夫.I love waking up in the morning and not knowing what’s going to happen, or who I’m going to meet, where I’m going to wind up.我喜欢早上起来时一切都是未知的,不知会遇见什么人,会有什么样的结局。
I figure life is a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you’re going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.我觉得生命是一份礼物,我不想浪费它,你不会知道下一手牌会是什么,要学会接受生活。
To make each day count. 要让每一天都有所值。
God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death. Neither shall there be sorrow or dying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former world has passed away. 上帝擦去他们所有的眼泪.死亡不再有,也不再有悲伤和生死离别,不再有痛苦,因往事已矣.1You’re going to get out of here. You’re going to go on and you’re going to make lots of babies and you’re going to watch them grow and you’re going to die an old, an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here. Not this night. Not like this.你一定会脱险的,你要活下去,生很多孩子,看着他们长大.你会安享晚年,安息在温暖的床上,而不是今晚在这里,不是像这样的死去。
Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. 世界上所有的生命都在微妙的平衡中生存。
I laugh in the face of danger. 越危险就越合我心意。
I’m only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble. 我只是在必要的时候才会勇敢，勇敢并不代表你要到处闯祸。
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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
