英语散文中也有很多简短的优美段落值得赏析，下面是关于优美英语散文段落摘抄的内容，欢迎阅读！
1、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）
2、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）
3、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）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家约翰逊）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美国作家梭罗）
6、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）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法国化学家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
——Voltaire（法国思想家伏尔泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英国批评家散文家哈滋里特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英国作家史蒂文森）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英国诗人小说家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法国思想家孟德斯鸠）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德国剧作家诗人席勒）
15、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）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美国实业家施瓦布）
17、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）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
——Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
20、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）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（爱尔兰总统魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
——G. Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美国散文家雷诺兹）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家和评论家约翰逊）
25、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）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
——（La Racheforcauld（法国作家罗切福考尔德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英国小说家萨克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美国诗人斯托达德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
——J.Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
30、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）
31、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）
32、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）
33、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）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
——George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
35、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）
36、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）
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，
但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美国政治家舒尔茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。
——R. Peters（美国法学家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, 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）
40、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）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.爱略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里穆尔）
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝；这是低能的表现，真正了解变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
——John Dewey 约翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
——John F.Kennedy 约翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。
——Joseph Roux 约瑟夫·鲁
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
——Jung 荣格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·邓肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯图亚特
51、Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于他们什么都理解得太快。
——Alexander Pope 亚历山大·蒲柏
52、To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
要正确地思考，我们须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己见解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·黑兹利特
53、No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
没有人是完全孤立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的一小块。
——John Donne 约翰·邓恩
54、No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
没有人能让社会服从个人的意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。
——Emerson 爱默生
55、Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人做假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚。
——La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什福科
56、Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
——Mark Twain 马克·吐温
57、The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。
——伊索
58、What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不可能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西。
——Epictetus 爱比克泰德
59、Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
不惜一切代价夺取胜利，不畏任何恐怖夺取胜利。不论道路多么漫长，多么崎岖，一定要夺取胜利！因为没有胜利就不能生存。
——Sir Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔
60、The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。
——Emerson 爱默生
无论工作、人际关系还是其他杂七杂八的日常琐事中遇到多大的压力，一个好文章绝对能让你把这些都抛在脑后。下面为大家分享了英语美文欣赏，欢迎阅读！
英语美文欣赏1
Betty,the friend who I met in the elementary school is my best friend as it used to be , I still cherish the enjoyable and unforgettable time and our friendship to this day. Despite we are separated from each other for the time being, I can revisit the bittersweet memories at any time, that's enough .
As far as I'm concerned, she used to be keen on reading, especially novels------she was crazy in reading so much that she almost forgot to have meals or stayed up all night. There seemed to be a private library her house, which belonged to her.
Few years ago, Betty played various and important roles in my life , such as a teacher , an elder sister , a close friend and so on . She often kept an eye on my daily life , even looked over my shoulder so that I wouldn't do harm to others or myself . When I did something wrong , she got tempered and threatened me:"There will soon be something new in your life." referring to her temper . Her stubbornness leaves a profound impression on me . Once she made up her mind , she was as stubborn as a mule , few people were strong-minded enough to persuade her.
After our graduation , we gradually lose tough with each other . If we were both in the same college , the life would change for the better .
英语美文欣赏2
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
英语美文欣赏3
That must be the story of innumerable couples， and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace。 It reminds you of a placid rivulet， meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees， till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm， so silent， so infifferent， that you are troubled suddently by a vague uneasiness。 Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature， strong in me even in those days， that i felt in such an existence， the share of the great majority， something amiss。 I recognized its social value。 I saw its ordered happiness， but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course。 There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights。 In my heart was desire to live more dangerously。 I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous， shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen。
这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深：我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。我承认这种生活有社会价值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的'旅程．这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西．我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。
英语美文欣赏4
we tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.
我们竭尽全力想让我们的儿女们过得更好，而结果却是适得其反。
for my grandchildren, i d know better.
对我的孙辈们，我就明智得多了。
i'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf.
我真的希望他们能够了解什么是兄长传下来的旧衣服，家制的冰淇淋，以及吃剩的肉糕。
i really would.我真的希望。
my cherished grandson,我的宝贝孙子，
i hope you learn humility by surviving failure and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking.
我希望你在经受失败的考验之后能学会谦卑，也希望你能学会诚实，即使在没有人注视你的时候。
i hope you learn to make your bed ,
我希望你能学会自己叠被子，
and mow the lawn and wash the car-and i hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
自己刈草坪，自己洗车--我还希望在你满十六岁时没有人送给你一辆崭新的轿车。
英文摘抄有助于提高英语
1、Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know。 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
2、One's sin will find one out。 坏事终归要败露。
3、Doubt is the key to knowledge。怀疑是知识的钥匙。
4、The heart is seen in wine。酒后吐真言。
5、You may be out of my sight， but never out of my mind。你也许已走出我的视线，但从未走出我的思念。
6、The first wealth is health 。健康是人生第一财富。
7、He that promises too much means nothing。轻诺者寡信。
8、Just because someone doesn't love you as you wish， it doesn't mean you're not loved with all his/her being。只因为某人不如你所愿爱你，并不意味着你不被别人所爱。
9、This is courage in a man： to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends。 真正的勇气是：无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
10、Sow nothing， reap nothing。春不播，秋不收。
11、Every why has a wherefore。凡事必有因。
12、Birds of a feather flock together。 物以类聚，人以群分。
13、Goals determine what you are going to be。目标决定你将成为为什么样的人。
14、A man is only as good as what he loves。一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。
15、Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue。勇气和坚定是美德的精神与灵魂。
16、Great works are performed not by strength，but by perseverance。完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
17、For man is man and master of his fate。人就是人，是自己命运的`主人。
18、A friend in need is a friend indeed。 患难见真情。
19、Beware beginning。以谨慎开始。
20、When the whole world is about to rain， let’s make it clear in our heart together。当全世界约好一起下雨，让我们约好一起在心里放晴。
21、Sweat is the lubricant of success。汗水是成功的润滑剂。
22、Strike the iron while it is hot。 趁热打铁。
23、Nurture passes nature。教养胜过天性。
24、Do you love life？Then do not squander time；for that's the stuff life is made of。你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。
25、Do not teach fish to swim。不要班门弄斧。
26、Out of sight， out of mind。眼不见，心不烦。
27、No cross， no crown。未经苦难，得不到荣冠。
28、Gratitude is the sign of noble souls。感恩是精神高尚的标志。
29、The first step is as good as half over。第一步是最关键的一步。
30、You're uinique，nothing can replace you。你举世无双，无人可以替代。
31、Money is not everything。 There's Mastercard & Visa。钞票不是万能的，有时还需要信用卡。
32、One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning。一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
33、One for all， all for one。我为人人，人人为我。
34、You can't eat your cake and have it also。世事两难全。
35、One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers。曾经沧海难为水。
36、If you have great talents， industry will improve them；if you have but moderate abilities， industry will supply their deficiency。如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
37、A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush。手中的一只鸟胜于林中的两只鸟。
38、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest。能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
39、Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people。 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
40、You never know your luck。命运好坏不由己。
41、Time and tide wait for no man。时间不等人。
42、All lay load on the willing horse。人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
43、Clothes do not make the man。人不在衣装。
44、I have nothing to offer but blood， boil， tears and sweat。我能奉献的没有其它，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。
45、It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous。 从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。
46、True mastery of any skill takes a lifetime。对任何技能的掌握都需要一生的刻苦操练。
47、Anything one man can imagine， other men can make real。但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能将它实现。
48、A watched pot never boils。心急喝不了热粥。
49、Ordinary people think merely of how they will spend time， a man of intellect tries to use it。常人只想如何消磨时间，智者则努力利用时间。
50、Life is a journey， not the destination， but the scenery along the should be and the mood at the view。人生就是一场旅行，不在乎目的地，在乎的应该是沿途的风景以及看风景的心情。
51、It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman。使人成为君子的并不是讲究的衣着。
52、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。
53、There is no royal road to learning。求知无坦途。
54、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed。成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
55、Beggars cannot be choosers。行乞者不得有选择。
