The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。--Suetonius
forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon who have done wrong.
受害者有权宽恕，但他们永远也不能原谅那些害人者。
--Dryden 加德莱顿
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent．
该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。
--Caxton卡克斯顿
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
在这个世界上只有两种悲剧：一种是得不到自己想要的东
西，另一种是得到了。
——Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡·王尔德
You have freedon when you are easy in your harness.
在约束中能感到自如，那你就是自由的了。
——Robert Frost罗伯特·弗罗斯特
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else, They are just braver five minutes longer.
英雄也许不比别人更勇敢。他们只不过比别人多勇敢五分钟。
——Ronald Reagan罗纳德·里根
50．He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
在胜利后能控制自己的人赢得了第二个胜利。
——Frances bacon 培根
The man who has never made a mistake will never make else.
从不犯错的人将一事无成。
——G.B.shaw 萧伯纳
First catch your hare.
首先必须捕获兔子，然后才能宰之。—— Thackeray 萨克雷
Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.
胜利是不会向我走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。—— M. Moore 穆尔
A great man is always willing to be little.
伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。—— R. W. Emerson 爱默生
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
懦夫在未死之前，已身历多次死亡的恐怖了。 —— Julius Caesar 凯撒
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。 —— Jules Verne 凡尔纳
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
早睡早起使人健康、富裕又聪明。—— Benjamin Franklin 富兰克林
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。—— T. Fuller 富勒
Goals determine what you are going to be.
目标决定你将成为为什么样的人。—— Julius Erving欧文
All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope.
人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词 — 等待和希望。—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲马（法国作家）
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?
光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。—— H. D. Thoreau梭罗
You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。—— Charles Chaplin卓别林
People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。
--Arnold Glasgow阿诺德·格拉斯哥
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
制造不公比承受不公更可耻。
--Plato柏拉图
Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.
无论我们有多大的耐心，我们都希望永远不要用到它。
--James TO.O'Brien詹姆士·T·奥布赖恩
Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big．
有些人从来不有夸张—他们只是记错了。
--Audrey Snead奥德丽·斯尼德
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
盗贼尊重财产权，他们只是希望财产能变成他们的财产，因为这样，他们才能更尊
重这财产权。
--G．K．Chesterton G．K．切斯特顿
In a way, nobody sees a flower really. It is so small; we haven't time. And to see takes time, as to have a friend takes time.
在某种意义上，没有人真正看过一朵花。花那么小，我们又没有时间，要看可要花
时间的，就像交朋友也要花时间。
--Georgia O'keeffe乔治亚·奥基夫
How majestic is naturalness．I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
自然是多么高贵呀。我从不认为不自然不简单的人是真正伟大的人。矫揉造作不可
避免的会暴露不能肯定自己的人。
--Charles Daves查尔斯·戴夫斯
The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm．
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
-- H．W．Arnold H．W．阿诺德
People want know how much you care before they care how much you know.
人们首先想知道你在乎多少，然后才在乎你知道多少。
--James Hind 詹姆斯.欣德
There are good man everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
到处都是好人，我只希望他们声音大一些。
--Louis L'Amour 路易斯.拉穆尔
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
我们的自我感觉越良好，我们就越用不着把别人打倒在地才觉得自己伟大。
--Brian Lanker 布赖恩.兰克
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
神奇的是我们分享得越多，我们拥有的也越多。
--Leonard Nimoy 伦纳德.莫尼哀
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的，但在夜晚就是另外一回事。
--Hemingway 海明威
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
如果有一天，母亲不在为儿子做的糟糕事操心，而为她的孙子孙女做的令人惊讶的
事而欣喜，她就是一位真正的祖母。
--Loise Wyse落伊丝.怀斯
Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
在这个世界的某一地方，每个人都会失败，有的人为失败所毁，有的人被成功变得
小气吝啬。同时战胜失败和成功的人才是了不起的人。
--John Steinbeck 约翰.斯坦贝克
Don't fool yourself that you going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
别欺骗自己以为你能得到一切。你办不到。从心理学角度说，拥有一切甚至都不是
一个有意义的概念。人类的精彩之处是我们永远伸着手想摘星星。我们得到的越
多，想要的就越多。由于这个原因，我们永远不能拥有一切。
--Joyce Brothers乔伊斯.布拉泽斯
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
有许多人将他们的想象当做记忆。
--Josh Billings 乔希.比林斯
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。
--Pope 蒲柏
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
人们往往坚持完美而扔掉了一些他们原本可以有的东西，
但他们是不可能拥有完美的，虽然他们还在永远找不到完
美的地方到处搜寻。
——Edith Schaeffer 伊迪丝·谢弗
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
在别人身上我们抱怨最多的东西往往也是我们自身中自己
也不喜欢的东西。
——William Wharton 威廉·沃顿
Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.
只有上帝才处于可以俯视所有人的位置。
——Sarah Brown 萨拉·布朗
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
忍耐超过了一定的限度便不再是美德了。
——Edmund Burke 埃德蒙·伯克
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
每个人都在抱怨他的记忆力，却没有人抱怨他的判断力。
——La Rockefoucauld 拉罗什富科
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
我们惟一不得不害怕的就是害怕本身。
——Franklin Roosevelt 富兰克林·罗斯福
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream．
有许多人总故意作对，他们即使掉进河里，也还会坚持往上
游漂。
——Josh Billings 乔希·比林斯
Solitary shots should be ignored, but when they come from several directions, It's time to pay attention. As someone once said, "If one calls you a donkey, ignore him. If two call you a donkey, check for hoof prints. If three call you a donkey, get a saddle."
不要理睬零星的枪声，但如果枪声来自几个方向就该注意
了。就像有人曾经说过：“一个人叫你驴子，别理他。两个
人叫你驴子，检查一下蹄印。三个人叫你驴子，还是买一副
鞍座来吧。”
——Marshall Shelley 马歇尔·谢利
There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合，虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。
——Colleen McCullough 科林·麦卡洛
You shall have joy or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
上帝说：你或者拥有欢乐，或者拥有权利，你不能两者兼而有之。
——Emerson 爱默生
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.
邪恶这个魔鬼生得面目可憎，开始时人们只需看上她一眼
就无比厌恶；然而天长日久，对她的脸蛋渐渐熟悉起来，于
是我们先是容忍，接着怜惜，最后将她揽身人怀。
——Pope 蒲柏
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him.
不了解一个人却要尊敬他，那是不可能的。
——Erich Fromm 埃立克·弗洛姆
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。
——Pope 蒲柏
There are more things between heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
在这天地问有许多事情是人类哲学所不能解释的。
——Shakespeare 莎士比亚
If money be not you servant, it will be your master. The covetous man can not so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
如果钱财不是你的仆役，那就是你的主人。贪财的人与其
说是他拥有钱财，不如说是钱财占有他。
——Francis Bacon 培根
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇
气的人则失去一切。
——Cervantes 塞万提斯
