a generation without a cause in its youth has no legacy in its old age.
一代人如年轻时没有事业 ,老了就不会有遗产可以传下去.
e.kennedy 肯尼迪
a glass at supper is not amiss.
晚酌一杯也无妨。
a good anvil does not fear the hammer.
好砧不怕铁锤砸
a good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim.
神箭手因其射中靶子而非因其箭而闻名。
john lyly 约翰 黎里
a good beginning is half the battle.
好的开端等于成功了一半
a good beginning makes a good ending.
欲善其终 ,先善其始.
a good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
好书如好友 ,友情永不渝.
m.tupper 塔珀(英国诗人)
a good conscience is a continual feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
a good deed is never lost.
好心一定有好报。
a good face is a letter of recommendation.
漂亮的面孔就是推荐书。
a good face needs no band, and a pretty wench no land.
英俊的.小伙子无需吹鼓手 ,漂亮的村姑无需田地.
a good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲
英语格言
a good horse cannot be of a bad color.
好马无劣色
a good horse should be seldom spurred.
好马无需用鞭抽。
a good husband makes a good wife. a good jack makes a good jill.
丈夫好 ,妻子也好.
英语谚语
a good man can no more harm than a sheep.
好人像绵羊，为恶不在行。
a good man terminates a friendship with out rancor.
君子绝交不记仇
a good marksman may miss.
好射手也有失手的时候
a good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. you put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
美满婚姻就像一笔丰厚得难以置信的退休金盛年时你将一切所得放入其中,经过积年累月,它便会从白银变成黄金,再从黄金变成白金.
a good name is better than riches.
美名胜过金钱。
a good name is sooner lost than won.
美名难得而易失
a good neighbor, a good morrow.
邻居好 ,日子好.
a good newspaper, i suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
我认为，一份好的报纸是一个民族在同自己谈话。
a.miller 米勒(美国剧作家)
a good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
好名不出门，恶名传四方。
a good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.
好的推诿之词或许长期有用，但不会永远有用。
a good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
一个好外科医生要有鹰的眼、狮子的胆和女性的手。
a good tale ill told is marred in the telling.
好故事还要讲得好。
a good tale is none the worse for being told twice.
好戏不厌两回看。
/好故事百听不厌。
a good thing is soon snatched up.
好货卖得快。
a good tongue is a good weapon.
会说话的舌头是一件精良的武器。
a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
好树不会结坏果子，坏树不会结好果子。
西方箴言
a good tree is a good shelter.
枝叶茂盛的大树是躲避风雨的好去处 /大树底下好乘凉.
名人名言是指为人类发展做出贡献的，富有知识的名人所说的能够让人懂得道理的一句较为出名的话。
二、有关英文的名人名言（精选100句）
1、No cross,no crown.没有苦难，就没有快乐。
2、Honesty is the best policy.诚实乃上策。
3、Life is not all beer and skittles.人生并非尽是乐事。
4、All things are difficult before they are easy.凡事必先难后易。
5、A contented mind is a perpetual feast.知足长乐。
6、A stitch in time saves nine.防微杜渐。
7、Our pride chiefly rests on ignorance.骄傲主要来自于无知。
8、An idle youth，a needy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
9、Bite the hand that feeds one.恩将仇报。
10、All roads lead to Rome.行行出状元。
11、Where there is life,there is hope.留得青山在，不怕没柴少。
12、Action speaks louder than words.行动胜过语言。
13、A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。
14、By doing we learn.经一事，长一智。
15、Grasp all,lose all.欲尽得，必尽失。
16、Big mouthfuls ofter choke.贪多嚼不烂。
17、Idleness is the root of all evil.懒惰是万恶之源。
18、Be slow to promise and quick to perform.不轻诺，诺必果。
19、Long absent,soon forgotten.别久情疏。
20、First things first.凡事有轻重。
21、A merry heart goes all the way.心情愉快，万事顺利。
22、Where there‘s smoke，there‘s fire.无风不起浪。
23、He that knows nothing，doubts nothing.无知即无疑。
24、Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.功亏一篑。
25、Teaching others teaches youself.教学相长。
26、Will is power.意志就是力量。
27、Be honest rather clever.诚实比聪明更要紧。
28、pain past is pleasure.过去的痛苦即快乐。
29、Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚，人以群分。
30、Being on sea,sail; being on land,settle.随遇而安。
31、Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.良药苦口利于病。
32、The shortest answer is doing.最简短的回答就是行动。
33、Doing nothing is doing ill.无所事事，必干坏事。
34、Brevity is the soul of wit.言以简洁为贵。
35、Adversity reveals genius,fortune conceals it.苦难显才华，好运藏天知。
36、The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.精神的财富是唯一的财富。
37、Be just to all，but trust not all.要对一切人都公正，但不要对一切人都信任。
38、Difficulties strengthen the mind,as labour does the body.劳动强体，磨难强智。
39、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。
40、Education has for its object the formation of character.教育的目的在于品德的培育。
41、He is truly happy who makes others happy.使他人幸福的人，是真正的幸福。
42、Education has for its object the formation of character.教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。
43、Better (be) alone than in bad company.宁可独处，勿交坏友。
44、Confidence is a plant of slow growth.信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
45、The unexamined life is not worth living.混混噩噩的生活不值得过。
46、Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.家规再严，事端难免。
47、When youre good to others，you are best to yourself.善待他人，即是最善待自己。
48、Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
49、A great man is always willing to be little.伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。
50、Better an empty purse than an empty head.宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
51、Sadness and gladness succeed one another.乐极生悲，苦尽甘来。
52、Youth and white paper take any impression.青年和白纸能接受任何印记。
53、A great talker is a great liar.最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
54、The good seaman is known in bad weather.惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。
55、Education is the chief defence of nations.教育是国家的主要防御力量。
56、live not to eat，but eat to live.活着不是为了吃饭，吃饭为了活着。
57、Wise men are silent; fools talk.智者沉默寡言，愚者滔滔不绝。
58、You may be too cunning for one，but not for all.蒙骗得了一人，但蒙骗不了所有的人。
59、life without a friend is a life without a sun.人若无友，犹如只有生命没有太阳。
60、Dont throw stones at your neightbours，if your own windows are glass.假如你家的窗户是玻璃做的，别用石头打你的邻居。
61、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。
62、If you dont learn to think when you are young ,you may never learn.如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。
63、Always aim for achievement and forget about success.永远要争取去做出成就，别去多考虑成功。
64、The roots of education are bitter,but the fruit is sweet.教育之树根部是苦的，但其果实是甜蜜的。
65、Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.在你信任一个人之前，先要深入了解他。
66、Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。
67、If you do what you should not，you must hear what you would not.若做了不应做之事，则必然会听见不愿听之语。
68、Laugh,and the world laughs with you; Weep,and you weep lone.欢笑，整个世界伴你欢笑。哭泣，只有你独自向隅而泣。
69、He that can bear a reproof，and mend by it，if he is not wise，is in a fair way of being so.能承受责备并据此改过者，若不算是智者，也距之不远。
70、Life is measured by thought and action not by time.衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为，而不是时间。
71、Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。
72、Education begins a gentleman,conversation completes him.君子开始形成于教育，而完成于交际。
73、Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being:face,dress,soul and idea.人的一切都应当是美丽的：容貌、衣着、心灵和思想。
74、Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
75、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。
76、One never notices what has been done;one can only see what remains to be done.切不要注意已经做了哪些，而只能去考虑还有哪些有待去做。
77、Each year one vicious habit rooted out，in time minght make the worst man good throughout.每年根除一恶习，恶根亦会成完人。
78、Time tries all things.时间检验一切。
79、Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.不幸与幸运都是正直的试金石。
80、Education makes a people easy to lead,but difficult to drive;easy to govern but imposible to slave.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。
81、Life itself,without the assistance of colleges and universities,is becoming an advanced institution of learning.没有学院和大学的帮助，人生本身也正在变成一所高等学府。
82、Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.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。
83、Every person has two educations,one which he receives from others,and one,more important which he gives himself.每个人都接受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。
84、Histories make men wise;poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend.历史使人明智;诗词使人灵秀;数学使人周密;自然哲学使人深刻;伦理使人庄重;逻辑修辞学使人善辨。
85、Bad times make a good man.艰难困苦出能人。
86、You cant judge a tree by its bark.人不可貌相。
87、The first step is as good as half over.第一步是最关键的一步。
88、Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.礼貌不用花一分钱，却能赢得一切。
89、Conceit is the quicksand of success.自负是成功的流沙。
90、The best hearts are always the bravest.心灵最高尚的人，也总是最勇敢的人。
91、Doubt is the key to knowledge.怀疑是知识的钥匙。
92、There is no disputing about tastes.人各有所好。
93、Wasting time is robbing oneself.浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
94、Honesty is the best policy.诚实为上策。
95、Every man at forty is a fool or a physician.人到四十，如果不是傻子，就该知道保养身体。
96、Sharp tools make good work.工欲善其事，必先利其器。
97、There is no royal road to learning.求知无坦途。
98、There is no garden without its weeds.没有不长杂草的花园。
99、Sow nothing, reap nothing.春不播，秋不收。
100、Work wont kill but worry will.劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
be a rascal among rascals.
—— plautus
近墨者黑。
—— 普劳图斯
man is the only animal that blushes. or needs to.
—— mark twain.
人是惟一会脸红的动物，或者说是惟一需要脸红的动物。
—— 马克·吐温
to a few,rashness brings luck, to most misfortune.
—— phaedrus
鲁莽也许给少数人带来运气， 但给大多数人带来的是不幸。
—— 费德鲁斯
eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.
—— benjamin franklin
吃为了满足自己，穿则为了取悦他人。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
everything passes-even regret.
—— james huneker
一切都会成为过去-遗憾也是如此。
—— 詹姆斯·亨内克
time partially reconciles us to anything.
—— charles lamb
时间在一定程度上让我们对任何事都习以为常。
—— 查尔斯·兰姆
my honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉， 我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
——andre gide (1869-1951)
没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。
——安德烈·纪德
we have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
——george bernard shaw (1856-1950)
不创造幸福的人无权享用幸福，正如不创造财富的人无权享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
if a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
—— benjamin franklin
如果一个人倾其所有以
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
a fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
——william blake
智者见到树木，和蠢者看到的是不一样的。
——威廉·布莱克
everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
——will rogers
所有人只是在某些方面无知。
——威尔·罗杰斯
nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
——francis bacon
谦恭的外表最易使人上当。
——培根
content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
——benjamin franklin.
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。
——本杰明·富兰克林
all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
—— john ruskin
一切书籍都可以分为两类，即：一时之书与永久之书。
—— 约翰·罗斯金
