Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life .( Thomas Edison , American inventor)
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。( 美国发明家 爱迪生. T. )
But has the last word been said ? Is all hope to be lost ? Is the defeat final No !(Charles De Gaulle , French president )
但是难道败局已定，胜利已经无望?不，不能这样说! (法国总统 戴高乐. C.)
I succeeded because I willed it ; I never hesitated .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor )
我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇 。 (法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .)
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. (Thomas Edison , American inventor )
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily . (Friedrich Schiller , German Dramatist and poet).
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。(德国剧作家、诗人 席勒. F.)
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger .(Theodore Roosevelt , American president)
实力永远意味着责任和危险。 (美国总统 罗斯福. T.)
Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw , British Dramatist)
成功由大量的失望铸就。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want , and if they cannot find them .they make them. (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的`人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor )
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 (美国演员 卓别林. C.)
All the splendor 1 in the world is not worth a good friend .(Voltaire , French thinker)
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。 (法国思想家 伏尔泰)
Creditors 4 have better memories than debtors . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
放债的比借债的记忆好。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
If you would know the value of money , go and try to borrow some .
(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
If your Riches are yours , why don't you take them with you to the other world ?(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
如果财富是你的，那么你为什么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢?(
美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Money is a good servant and a bad master .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。( 英国哲学家 培根. F. )
Money is like muck , not good except it be spread .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher)
金钱好比粪肥，只有撒到在大地才是有用之物。(英国哲学家 培根. F.)
No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resources .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)
任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。(美国总统 罗斯富. F.)
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。(美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A.)
一、关于教育的谚语
1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)
教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯)
2.And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)
勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)
3.Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)
与其不受教育，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)
4.Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education:dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able
to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)
所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采)
5.Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)
教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢)
6.Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)
教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金)
7.Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)
8.Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)
教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得)
9.Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)
10.Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)
教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉)
11.Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)
教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝)
12.Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)
教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)
13.Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)
教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特)
14.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)
教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使;容易管理，却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)
15.Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)
每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋)
二、关于动物的
1.Bird
(1)Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕;一举两得。
(2)A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
(3)Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
(4)It's an ill bird that fouls own nest.
家丑不可外扬。
(5)Fine feathers make fine birds.
人要衣装，马要鞍。
(6)A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
听音识鸟，闻言识人。
(7)Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
鸟儿都爱听自己唱。(自我欣赏)
(8)You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
(粗糠)用粗糠捉不住老鸟。(有
(9)Birds in their little nests agree.
同巢之鸟心儿齐。
2.Cat
(1)A cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命;吉人天相。
(2)Cats hide their claws.
知人知面不知心。
(3)All cats are grey in the dark.
黑暗之中猫都是灰色的。(人未出名时看起来都差不多。)
(4)A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的猫，老鼠抓不到。(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事业。)
(5)When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
黄鼠狼和猫结亲，不是好事情。
(6)Who will bwll the cat?
谁去给猫系铃?(谁愿意为大家冒风险?)
(7)The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
帽偷吃奶油的时候总是闭着眼睛。(掩耳盗铃)
(8)There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter.
杀猫的办法很多。(达到目的的途径很多。)
(9)Care kill a cat.
忧虑愁死猫。
3.Chicken
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
鸡蛋未孵出，先别数小鸡。(不要过早乐观。)
4.Crow
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
江山易改，本性难移。
5.Dog
(1)He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(2)A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
(3)Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及乌。
(4)Too much pudding will choke a dog.
布丁太多噎死狗。
(5)Every dog has his day.
人人皆有得意时。
(6)Barking dogs don't (seldom) bite.
爱叫的狗很少咬人。
(7)Let sleeping dogs lie.
勿惹事生非。
(8)Dead dogs bite not.
死狗不咬人。
(9)All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗见了叫的不一定都是贼。(不要以貌取人。)
(10)Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家门口就成了狮子。
(11)Don't be a dog (lying) in the manger.
莫学狗占马槽不吃草。(不要占着茅坑不拉屎。)
(12)Dog does not eat dog.
同类不相残。
(13)Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
狗再傲慢也会吃脏布丁。
(14)A son never thinks his mother ugly,and a dog never shuns its owner's home however
shabby it is.
儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫
三、关于友谊的英语谚语
Set great store by friendship. 情意重千斤。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Old friends and old wine are best. 陈酒味醇, 老友情深。
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. 君子之交淡如水。
A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己, 天涯若比邻。
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友谊是无法言喻的。
Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友谊像生长着的植物, 是慢慢地建立起来的。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好书如挚友, 情谊永不渝。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遥知马力, 日久见人心。
I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
我喜欢这样的朋友, 他对我的缺点就像照镜子一样直言不讳。
It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .
世界上没有不犯错误的人. 想交没有错误的朋友, 你就没有朋友。
It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. 只有伟大胸怀的.人才是真正的朋友; 平庸和怯懦之辈决不可能了解真正友谊的含义。
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
没有朋友的人不会幸福，不处逆境不能识别朋友。
Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. 远方的朋友能使世界变得非常宽阔; 他们组成了经纬度。
Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. 在复杂的生命中, 有两点要牢记:为生存需要吃饭, 而心灵需要友谊。
The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
旅行中最愉快的事是交到一个真诚的朋友。
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事。
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. 对朋友爱得越深, 奉承得就越少。
The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. 铜臭味浓往往是友谊的不祥之兆。
The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.
真正的友谊追求的是给予, 而不是索取; 是帮助别人, 而不是被人帮助; 是为人服务, 而不是被人服务。
To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. 维护朋友, 有三件事情要做到：当面要尊重他, 不在场时要表扬他, 苦难时要帮助他。
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. 选择朋友要像选书那样, 数量要少, 但质量要精。
My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably.
朋友不会十全十美，你自己也一样，双方要互相尊敬。
For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 酒逢知己千杯少，话不投机半句多。
四、关于健康的名言
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.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , Americanpresident)
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (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.)
五、
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. ——Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize
it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin
生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。——乔治·埃略特
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.——Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。——林肯
六、关于哲理的谚语
1.Be honest rather clever.
诚实比聪明更要紧。
2.Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
随遇而安。
3.Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正对待所有的人，但不要轻信所有的人。
4.Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。
5.Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不轻诺，诺必果。
6.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
多听少说。
7.Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
8.Better an open enemy than a false friend.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
9.Better good neighbours near than relations far away.
远亲不如近邻。
10.Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
功亏一
11.Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
12.Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
13.Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
贪多嚼不烂。
14.Bind the sack before it be full.
做事应适可而止。
15.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
时光易逝。
2. Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
3. Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情;岁月易逝;岁月不待人。
4. Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
5. Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
6. Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
7. All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
8. No one can call back yesterday; Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
9. Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
10.One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
11.The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常;朝阳不能光照全日。
12.Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
13.Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
14.Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
15.Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
16.The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，光阴迫。
17.Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
18.Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.
明天如有事，今天就去做。
19.To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
20.To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命。
21.Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
22.Take time when time comes lest time steal away.
时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
23.When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
机不可失，时不再来。
24.Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。(抓紧时机)
25.Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
26.Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.
今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
27.Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为立业之要素。
28.Procrastination is the thief of time.
因循拖延是时间的大敌;拖延就是浪费时间。
29.Every tide had its ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
30.Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
31.Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
32.Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银，
33.Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
34.Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
35.Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识之钥。
36.If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
37.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
38.A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
39.Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
40.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
