四 六 级 作 文 中 常 用 的 言 语 及 名 人 名 言

一．常用谚语

1.Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。

2.God helps those who help themselves. 天助自助者

3.Easier said than done. 说起来容易做起来难。

4.Where there is a will,there is a way. 有志者事竟成。

5.One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，谬之千里。

6.Slow and steady wins the race. 稳扎稳打无往而不胜。

7.A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。

8.Experience is the mother of wisdom. 实践出真知。

9.All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. 只工作不休息，聪明孩子也变傻。

10.Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance. 无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰，徒有其表。

11.More hasty,less speed. 欲速则不达。

12.It's never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。

13.All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的未必都是金子。

14.A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.千里之行始于足下。

15.Look before you leap. 三思而后行。 中国英语学习网

16.Rome was not built in a day. 伟业非一日之功。

17.Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。

18.well begun,half done. 好的开始等于成功的一半。

19.It is hard to please all. 众口难调。

20.Out of sight,out of mind. 眼不见，心不念。 英语四六级

21.Facts speak plainer than words. 事实胜于雄辩。

22.Call back white and white back. 颠倒黑白。

23.First things first. 凡事有轻重缓急。

24.Ill news travels fast. 坏事传千里。

25.A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。 中国英语学习网

26.live not to eat,but eat to live. 活着不是为了吃饭，吃饭为了活着。

27.Action speaks louder than words. 行动胜过语言。

28.East or west,home is the best. 金窝银窝不如自家草窝。

29.It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. 君子在德不在衣。

30.Beauty will buy no beef. 漂亮不能当饭吃。

二．常用名言

1、WORK 工作篇

Don’t gild the lily.

不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚 . W .)

I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain , American writer)

只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。(美国作家 马克?吐温)

It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do . (Winston Churchill , British prime minister)

不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.)

My philosophy of life is work . (Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor)

我的人生哲学就是工作。 (美国发明家 爱迪生 . T . A .)

When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )

工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。

(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)

Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty. (Voltaire , French philosopher )

工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰)

2、KNOWLEDGE 知识篇

Activity is the only road to knowledge .

(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)

行动是通往知识的唯一道路 。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)

A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books . (Thomas Jefferson , American president)

一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。(美国总统 杰斐逊 . T.)

A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way .(Adams Franklin , American humorist )

我的大部分知识都是这样获得的：在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料。

(美国幽默作家 富兰克林. A.)

If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him , an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )

倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )

想象力比知识更为重要。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A. )

Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根. F.)

The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )

满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

3、EDUCATION 教育篇

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)

Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of

misfortune .(Plato , Ancient Greek philosopher)

与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源.(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

Genius17 without education is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin , American president )

未受教育的天才，犹如矿中之银。 (美国总统 富兰克. B.)

The roots of education are bitter , but the fruit is sweet .(Aristotle , Ancient Greek philosopher )

教育的根是苦的，但其果实是甜的。( 古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)

4、CULTURE 文化篇

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight .(P. B. Shelley , British poet )

伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱. P. B)

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road .( Stendhcl , French writer )

一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。 (法国作家 司汤达)

Art is a lie that tells the truth .( Picasso , Spanish painter ) 美术是揭示真理的谎言。 (西班牙画家 毕加索)

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain , American novelist )

幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国小说家 马克?吐温)

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet )

文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 . J . W .)

When one loves one’s art no service seems too hard .( O. Henry, American novelist )

一旦热爱艺术，什么奉献也不难。 (美国小说家 欧?亨利)

 

第二篇：作文中常用的英文谚语及名人名言

作文中常用的英文谚语及名人名言

一．英文名人名言（90个）

（1）“创造”题材（6个）

1. All work is empty save when there is no love. (Gibran)

没有爱，所有的工作都空洞无物 （纪伯伦）

2. Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. (John Locke)

哪里缺乏热情，哪里就不会有勤奋 （约翰.洛克）

3. Darkness closes two eyes, but darkness opens a thousand others within us. Those unseen eyes are sometime troublesome. Yes, night brings strange fears and longings. (Louis Dens)

黑暗使我们闭上双眼，然而却又打开了我们内心的无数双眼睛，这些看不见的眼睛有时令人烦恼；的确，夜晚带来稀奇谷关的恐惧和渴望 （路易斯.但泽）

4. It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. (Homer)

常常是最后一首歌赢得的掌声最多 （荷马）

5. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. (Chesterton) 初生牛犊是一切事物中的最终胜利者，正是它赢取并饱尝了生活的精华 （切斯特顿）

6. Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls. (Henry Miller)

没有人只用眼睛看，我们用心灵去看 （亨利.米勒）

（2）“事业”题材（42个）

1. Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. (John Dewey)

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，真正列哦接变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标 （约翰.杜威）

2. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. (John F. Kennedy).

变化是生活的法则，只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来 （约翰.弗.肯尼迪）

3. Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life. (Goethe)

天才消无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成 （歌德）

4. With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything. (Joseph Roux) 一个人既自然又胆怯，将永远一事无成 （约瑟夫.鲁）

5. 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. (Jung)

加入我们想让孩子在某个方面有所发展，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 （荣格）

6. The finest inheritance you can five to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. (Isadora Duncan)

你能留给孩子的最好的财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路 （伊莎多拉.邓肯）

7. 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. (Goethe)

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 （歌德）

8. Don’t wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities. (Janet Erskine Stuart)

不要等候最好的条件或者最佳的时机，它们永远不会降临 （珍妮特.厄斯金.斯图亚特）

9. Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. (Alexander pope)

有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于它们什么都理解的太快 （亚历山大.蒲柏）

10. To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

要正确的思考，我们须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己讲解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响 （威廉.黑兹利特）

11. No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. (John Donne) 没有人是完全孤独的岛屿，每个人都是构成大陆的一小块 （约翰.邓恩）

12. No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too. (Emerson) 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 （爱默生）

13. Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that ht who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another. (La Rochefoucauld)

习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人作假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚 （拉.罗什福科）

14. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. (Mark Twain) 每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面 （马克.吐温）

15. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. (Aesop)

思想月狭隘，自负越膨胀 （伊索）

16. What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. (Epictetus)

哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西 （爱比克泰德）

17. 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. (Sir Winston Churchill)

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 （温斯顿.丘吉尔）

18. The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides. (Emerson) 胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方 （爱默生）

19. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. (William Hazlitt)

稳固的友谊和持久的爱情，这两者是善良和睿智的证明 （威廉.黑兹利特）

20. Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw)

沉默是蔑视的最好表达 （肖伯纳）

21. If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. (Democrit)

倘若你心满意足，你将无所建树 （德谟克利特）

22. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain) 拥有良书、益友和一颗宁静的心：这就是理想的生活 （马克.吐温）

23. Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible; good talk rises upon much self-discipline. (John Erskine)

我们唯有约束自己，对话才能进行；友好的交谈是依赖于良好的自我克制得以产生 （约翰.尼斯金）

24. The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. (Christopher Morley)

世界上最不幸的破产者摸过于言语消耗过大而思想无力支付的人 （克里斯托弗.莫里）

25. Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. (Benjamin Franklin)

阅读培养学问丰富的人，思考培养见识深刻的人，演讲培养思路清晰的人 （本杰明.富兰克林）

26. I ought to be no more than one mirror, in which my reader can see his own thinking with all its deformities so that, helped in this way, he can put it right. (Wittgenstein)

我应该只是一面镜子，我的读者可以通过这面镜子看到他思想的全部缺陷，从而借助这个途径将思想端正 （维特根斯坦）

27. Perhaps at bottom I’m … a country man. The warm earth feelings gets me hardest. It’s land

love, ground love. (Sherwood Anderson)

或许在内心深处我是——属于乡村的，那温暖的土壤的感觉让我最难释怀，这是对乡村和土地的眷恋 （谢伍德.安德森）

28. It is a brave act of valor to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. (Thomas Browne)

蔑视死亡是一种英勇的行为，但是当或着比死亡更加可怕的时候，那么敢于生活下去才是至高无上的勇气 （托马斯.布朗）

29. Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. (Rollo May)

勇气是每个人首要的美德，只要他还在成长，还在前进 （罗洛.梅）

30. The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. (Oscar Wilde)

想象是模仿，判断的精神才具有创造力 （奥斯卡.王尔德）

31. The greater one’s love for a person, the less room for flattery. The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism. (Moliere)

爱一个人爱的越深就越少恭维他，毫无保留的批评才验证真的感情 （莫里哀）

32. Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. (Lodovico Ariosto) 残忍永远处于卑劣之性，而且往往源于胆怯之心 （路.阿里奥斯托）

33. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. (Matthew Arnold)

文化令我们知悉世界上最好的知识和话语，从而了解人类精神的历史 （马修.阿诺德）

34. It is vain to find faults with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. (John Locke)

当人们心甘情愿受骗上当，抱怨骗术实属徒劳无益 （约翰.洛克）

35. It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. (Publilius Syrus)

被人拒绝也比被人欺骗好受 （普布里利亚斯.西拉斯）

36. The passing years steal from us one thing after another. (Horace)

逝去的年华从我们这偷走一样有一样东西 （贺拉斯）

37. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single action. (James Russell Lowell)

世间所有美丽的情感抵不过一次可爱的行动 （詹姆斯.罗素.洛威尔）

38. It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. (Publilius Syrus)

假如你不注重实践，满腹经纶也是狂妄 （普布里利亚斯.西拉斯）

39. Isn’t the best defense always a good attack? (Ovid)

最佳的防御难道不是绝妙的攻击吗？ （奥维德）

40. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. (Schopenhauer)

一个人可以干他想干的一切，却不能要求得到他想要的一切 （叔本华）

41. Difficulties in crease, the nearer one comes to the goal. (Goethe)

困难增加于是这距离目标更远 （歌德）

42. If a sense of duty tortures an man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. (H.L.Mencken) 如果责任感令人痛苦，那它也是人创造奇迹 （亨.路.门肯）

（3）“实践”题材（34个）

1. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. (Emerson)

竭尽全力掌握各种语言，结交各式朋友，精通各类技艺及行业，如此努力方能成为一个完整的人 （爱默生）

2. In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for. (Edgar Friedenberg)

在我们这个经验的世界里，一个不懂得自己精通什么的青年不会确切地知道他的价值所在 （埃德加.弗里登伯格）

3. Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us. (Pindar)

技能因人而异，我们必须凭借天生的资质引导我们执著前行，奋斗不息 （品达）

4. The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. (Tagore)

拒人千里源于分裂的意识；宽容大度源于统一和谐的意识 （泰戈尔）

5. A men dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. (Homer)

无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生 （荷马）

6. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. (Bacon)

不要寻求令人称美的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃 （培根）

7. A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes. (Samuel Butler) 生活是否成功以来于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重任 （塞缪尔.小巴特勒）

8. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself. (George Eliot) 你想要钻入一个圆洞，你就必须将自己变为球形 （乔治.爱略特）

9. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. (Aristotle)

人们泰然自若地承受接踵而来的灾难，并不是由于感觉迟钝，而是具有崇高个英勇的品质，这是，尽管在厄运中，心灵美仍放射出灿烂辉煌 （亚里士多德）

10. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy. (Boethius)

在各种逆境中，人们感受到得最大痛苦莫过于回忆起曾经拥有过的幸福 （波伊提乌斯）

11. Adversity is the first path to truth. (Byron)

逆境是通往真理的第一条路 （拜伦）

12. Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

忠告就像雪花，飘落得越轻柔，就越能持久，也越能深深地潜入人心 （塞缪尔.泰勒.柯勒律治）

13. To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder: but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. (William Thackeray)

看见一对年轻人相亲相爱不足为奇，然而看到一对咋样的老人却是人间最美丽的景致 （威廉.萨克雷）

14. It is not be who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper. (Samuel Butler)

辩论中得分最高的并非一语中的的人，二十显出最大耐心，更具涵养的人 （谁缪尔.巴特勒）

15. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. (Joseph Joubert) 争辩或讨论理应着眼于从中获益二不是非分出胜负不可 （约瑟夫. 尧伯）

16. The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself. (Aristotle)

一切技艺都与创造有关，运用技艺就是研究如何创造某种可以创造的东西。创造这种东西的始点在创制者中，而不是在被创制物中 （亚里士多德）

17. Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. (Hans Hofmann)

艺术与科学在物质生活领域构成平衡，并且拓宽经验世界。艺术导致对生活更为深刻的

思考，因为它本身乃是情感的深层表现 （汉斯.霍夫曼）

18. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. (George Bernard Shaw)

你在镜中看到自己的容貌；在艺术作品中见到自己的灵魂 （肖伯纳）

19. It constantly happens that the arts influence one another, that they, or that, as a result of their natural evolution, they overflow their boundaries and invade the domains of neighboring arts. Now it is music that would become painting, now painting that would become music. (Roman Rolland)

各种艺术形式经常互相影响，互相融合，或者作为自然演化的结果，它们超越各自的边界，侵入邻近的艺术形式的领域，时而音乐变成绘画，时而绘画变成音乐 （罗曼.罗兰）

20. Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. (Pablo Picasso)

绘画是盲人的职业，他不画所见之物，而画所感之物，画他就看到的事物向自己倾吐的感受 （巴勃罗.毕加索）

21. The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust. (George Bellows)

理想的艺术家通晓一切，感知一切，经历一切。他怀着惊讶获取经验，并以创作欲来满足他的惊奇 （乔治.贝洛斯）

22. First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Epictetus) 首先默默告诉自己想成为什么样的人，然后再着手必须做的事情 （爱比克泰德）

23. People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do. (Edgar Waston Howe)

人们致力于力所不及的事情的同时，往往忽略了力所能及的事情 （埃德加.沃斯顿.豪）

24. Beauty hath no true glass, except it be/ In the sweet privacy of loving eyes. (James Russell Lowell)

美不在镜前显现/ 只隐于含情脉脉的眉目之间 （詹姆斯.罗素.洛威尔）

25. Such is beauty ever, --neither in Rome nor in Athens, but whenever there is a soul to admire. (Thoreau)

美既不在罗马也不在雅典，而是深藏于每一颗欣赏美的心灵，这才是永恒的美 （梭罗）

26. Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded, (Norman Douglas)

学会培养富有激情的想象，如此你将发现别人忽视而错过的美 （诺曼.道格拉斯）

27. The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. (Seneca)

赋予我们生命的那一刻又开始将生命带走 （塞内加）

28. In difficult situations when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest. (Livy)

处于希望渺茫的困境中，最大胆的计划反而最可靠 （利维）

29. Yield not thy neck/ To fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind/ Still ride in triumph over all mischance. (Shakespeare)

切勿屈服命运的奴役/ 振作你勇敢无畏的精神/ 以胜利者的姿态压倒所有的不幸 （莎士比亚）

30. The easiest books are generally the best, for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. (Lord Chesterfield)

最通俗易懂的书籍往往最优秀。因为无论什么作者如果他用自己的语言都表述的晦涩而艰难，可以断定其思考亦不会清晰 （切斯特菲尔德）

31. It is with books as with men –a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude. (Voltaire)

书和人有相通之处——极少数人举足轻重，其他则淹没在芸芸众生之中 （伏尔泰）

32. The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Katherine Mansfield)

当你和一个人住在一起，共享相同的书籍，一切快乐将会加倍 （凯瑟琳.曼斯菲尔德）

33. A book is part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there – that of the pulse, the heart beat. (Henry Miller)

书构成生命的一部分，是生命的表现，正如一棵树，一匹马，一颗星。无论是小说、戏剧还是日记，它遵循自己的节奏和规律。在书里总有着深沉、隐秘的生命节奏——那是脉搏的跳动，心脏的起伏 （亨利.米勒）

34. Promise is most given when the least is said. (George Chapman)

最深的承诺是用最少的言语作出的 （乔治.查普曼）

（4）“教育”题材 （8个）

1. Who neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. (Euripides) 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲 （欧里庇得斯）

2. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Plato) 强灌的知识记不牢 （柏拉图）

3. From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. (Alfred North Whitehead)

在儿童教育的初级阶段，应让他体味到发现的快乐 （阿尔弗雷德.诺斯.怀特海）

4. Nothing can come of nothing. (Shakespeare)

无中不能生有 （莎士比亚）

5. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. (Elbert Hubbard)

失败与成功的界限如此微妙，我们跨过它时极少察觉，以至我们往往意识不到自己就处在这条线上 （艾尔伯特.哈伯德）

6. When we can begin to take our failures no seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. (Katherine Mansfield)

当我们不把失败当回事，这意味着我们不再畏惧它，学会自嘲是至关重要的一步 （凯瑟琳.曼斯菲尔德）

7. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy) 幸福的家庭几近一致；不幸的家庭各有不幸 （列夫.托尔斯泰）

8. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor ii freedom. (Einstein)

自由无拘、努力奋斗的人创造一切真正伟大而激动人心的事件 （爱因斯坦）

二、英语谚语 （59个）

1. Virtue and a trade are the best portion for children.

德行和一门技能是孩子最好的遗产

2. Better early than late.

宁早勿迟

3. A man can do no more than he can

量力而行

4. Honesty and diligence should be your eternal mates.

诚实和勤奋应成为你永远的伴侣

5. Early birds catch worms.

早起的鸟儿有虫吃

6. Every coin has its tow sides.

有利有弊

7. Every man has his hobby-horse. Every man has his taste.

人各有所好

8. Every one is born equal.

人人生而平等

9. Every rose has its thorn.

每朵玫瑰都有刺

10. Good things stay indoors while bad things will go far away. 好事不出门，恶事行千里

11. Gossip is a fearing thing.

人言可畏

12. He who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑

13. It is never too late to learn.

学习永远不嫌晚

14. Where there is a will, there is a way.

有志者事竟成

15. Health is better than wealth.

健康胜于财富

16. A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

知足常乐

17. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患难见真情

18. Every advantage has its disadvantages.

有利有弊

19. Every little makes a nickel.

积少成多

20. Self-trust is the first secret of success.

自信是成功的第一秘诀

21. Example is better than precept.

言传不如身教

22. No pains, no gains.

不劳无获

23. Throw the baby out with the bath water.

把洗澡水连同婴儿遗弃倒掉

24. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

百人有百好

25. If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.

不听老人言，吃亏在眼前

26. Parents are the first teacher of the children.

父母是孩子的第一任老师

27. Different strokes for different folks.

各有所好

28. An old man is treasure of a family.

家有老人便是宝

29. You live with a lame, you will learn a limp. He that lives with cripples learns to limp. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑

30. It is good to learn at another man’s cost.

前车之鉴

31. The devil knows many things because he is old.

人老见识广

32. All bread is not baked in one oven.

人与人不同，花有几样红/ 不能强求一致

33. There is a good side and bad side to everything

任何事情都有利有弊

34. Forgetting history means betrayal.

忘记历史意味着背叛

35. Strictness helps, indulgence spoils.

严是爱，松是害

36. Father is one hundred headmasters.

一个父亲胜过一百个老师

37. All work without play makes Jack a dull boy.

只干活不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻

38. Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.

今天的事情今天干

39. If you want to understand today, you have to research yesterday.

要想懂的今天，就必须研究昨天

40. Each man has his limitation.

人各有极限

41. They that live longest see most.

人越老越有智慧

42. Think thrice before we leap.

三思而后行

43. Too much liberty spoils all.

自由过了头，一切乱了套

44. A wise man and a fool together know more than a wise man. Tow heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠赛过诸葛亮

45. The older, the wiser.

年岁增长，智慧增长

46. The onlooker sees the game best. The spectator sees most clearly.

旁观者清

47. Years bring wisdom.

年岁增长智慧

48. A friend is easier lost than found.

朋友易失不易结

49. Time waits for no man.

时不待人

50. Look before you leap.

三思而后行

51. Every man has his liking.

人各有所好

52. Variety is the spice of life.

多样化是生活的调味品

53. It is a two-edged sword.

他是双刃剑

54. Ill news travels fast.

坏事传千里

55. Knowledge is power.

知识就是力量

56. Life is irreversible.

生命只有一次

57. More gain for more pay.

多劳多得

58. No garden is without weeds.

没有花园无杂草

59. No sweet without sweat.

苦尽甘来

注：引用名人名言及谚语时，可以使用如下句型：

1. Just as the saying goes：“……”

2. As the proverb goes ：“…”