英语名人名言

1. Rabindranath Tagore

poet, novelist, musician, and playwright

罗宾德拉纳特

-

泰戈尔

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility

.

当我们是大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

使生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之精美。

Man does not reveal himself in his history

, he struggles up through it.

人不能在他的历史中表现出他自己，他在历史中奋斗着露出头角。

2.

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。

Time is money

.

时间就是金钱。

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

选择朋友要谨慎，换朋友更要谨慎。

Resolve to perform what you ought.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

自己该做的事下定决心去做；决心去做的事一定做好。

3. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

French writer

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.

生命的价值不在于能活多少天，而在于我们如何利用这些日子。

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了。

4. Oscar Wilde

Irish playwright, poet and author

True friends stab you in the front.

当面扎刀的是真朋友。

Too much experience is a dangerous thing.

经验过多反而危险。

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

爱自己就是开始一场延续一生的罗曼史。

Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the broom is gone.

无知就像一朵精致的花朵

:

摸一下，它就消失了。

5. Thomas Carlyle

Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.

生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。

Work is worth doing of worth doing well.

一件事如果值得做好，就值得去做。

Cease to struggle and you cease to live.

生命不止，奋斗不息。

Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.

如果不竭尽所能，也就是未尽职责。

6.

Romain

Rolland

a

French

dramatist,

novelist,

essayist,

art

historian

and

mystic,

awarded

the

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915

To see the world as it is and to love it.

看清这个世界，然后爱它。

Love is an enternal belief.

爱情是一种永恒的信仰。

Never do I

hesitate to

look squarely at

the

unexpected

face that every passing

hour unveils to

us, and

to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be.

每一个流逝的时刻都为我们揭开面纱，露出一张不期而至的面庞，我毫不犹豫地正视她，抛弃

先前不真实的幻想，不管它们多么宝贵。

Whitman

American poet, essayists, journalist, and humanist

Failure is great too if it is unavoidable.

当失败不可避免时，失败也是伟大的。

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of light of letters, is simplicity

.

艺术之真谛，表达之荣耀，文字之光芒，唯简洁而已。

I exist as

I am, that

is enough.

If

no other

in

the world be aware I sit content, and

if each and all be

aware I sit content.

我活着像我自己，这已经足够。即使世上无人知晓，我也能满足地坐着；即使世上所有人都知

晓，我也能满足地坐着。

8. Homer

Ancient Greek epic poet

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生。

Let bygones be bygones.

过去的事就让它过去吧。

He serves me most, who serves his country best.

侍我最勤者，必是侍国最忠者。

9. Alexandre Dumas, pere

French writer

亚历 山大

-

仲马

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。

All for one, one for all.

人人为我，我为人人。

All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个字

-

等待和希望。

10. Francis Bacon

English philosopher, statesman

法兰西斯

-< /p>

培根

Knowledge is power.

知识就是力量。

To choose time is to save time.

合理安排时间就是节约时间。

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

学使人善辩。

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study

.

天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。

11. Gustave Flaubert

French writer

The principal thing in this world is to keep one

’

s soul aloft.

人生在世首要大事是保持灵魂的高尚。

The

most

glorious

moment

in

your

life

are

not

the

so-called

days

of

success,

but

rather

those

days

when out of dejection and despair

you

feel

rise

in

you a challenge to

life,

and the promise of

future

accomplishment.

人的一生中，最为辉煌的一 天并不是功名成就的那些天，而是从悲叹与绝望中产生对人生的挑

战和对未来辉煌的期盼 的那些日子。

12. Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright and poet

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。

Money

may

be

the

husk

of

many

things,

but

not

the

kernel.

It

brings

you

food,

but

not

appetite;

medicine, but

not

health; acquaintances, but

not

friends; servants, but

not

loyalty; days of

joy

, but

not

peace of happiness.

金钱可以是许多东 西的谷皮，却不是里面的谷粒，它能带来食物，却带不来胃口；能带来药，

却带不来健康 ；能带来相识，却带不来友谊，能带来仆人，却带不来他们的忠心；能带来享受，

却带不 来幸福的宁静。

13. Charlotte Bronte

British novelist

If

all

the

world

hated

you,

and

believed

you

wicked,

while

your

own

conscience

approved

you,

and

absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

哪怕全世界的人都恨你，都相信你坏，只要你自己问心无愧，你也不会没有朋友的。

True friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day

.

真正的友谊不是一株瓜蔓，会在一夜之间蹿起来，一 天之内枯萎下去。

14. Charles Dickens

British novelist

No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.

在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

倘若世上没有坏人，也就不会有好的律师。

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered

to, in the strongest conjuration.

家是一个名字，一个非常强大的字眼。它比最为强大的魔法 中，巫师说过，神灵回答的字眼，

都更加强大。

15. Helen Keller

American author, political activist and lecturer

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。

The best and

most beautiful things

in the world

cannot be seen or even

touched.

They

must be

felt

within the heart.

世界上最好与最美的事 物，是无法被看到或甚至是被触摸。他们一定是在内心的深处才能被感

觉到。

When one door of

happiness closes, another opens; but often

we

look so

long

at

the closed door

that

we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

< br>当一扇幸福之门关闭时，另一扇会打开；但经常我们总是注视那扇关闭的门太久，以致于无法

看到那扇已为我们打开的门。

16.

The world is like a mirror; Frown at it and it frowns at you; Smile and it smiles too.

世界像一面镜子；你朝他皱眉，他也朝你皱眉；你微笑，他也微笑。

Egotists do not see the world with them in it, but see themselves with the world around them.

自大者看到的并非是自己存在与世界当中，而是世界围绕着他在转。

The truest politeness comes from sincerity

.

最真的礼貌来自真诚。

17. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russian writer

Science is the business to serve the people.

科学的事业就是为人民服务。

There is no wisdom mind, just as there are no candle lanterns.

没有智慧的头脑就像没有拦住的灯笼。

Successful teaching required is not compulsory

, but rather to stimulate students

’

desire.

成功的教学所需要的不是强制，而是激发学生的欲望。

18. George Bernard Shwa

Irish Playwright

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

行动是通往知识的唯一道路。

He who has never hoped can never despair.

从来没有抱什么希望的人永远不会失望。

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, make them.

在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机 会，他们便自己创

造机会。

19. Honore de Balzac

French journalist and writer

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。

Genius

is suffering

for a

stepping stone capable person,

is a

wealth of

the

weak,

is an

unfathomable

abyss.

< br>苦难对于天才是一块垫脚石，对能干的人是一笔财富，对弱者是一个万丈深渊。

Love is memory of treasure.

爱情是回忆的宝库。

20. Eileen Chang

Chinese modern writer

张爱玲

在没有人与人 交接的场合，我充满了生命的欢悦。可是我一天不能克服这种咬啮的小烦恼，生

命是一袭 华美的袍，爬满了蚤子。

Without

social

contact

with

people,

I’

m

imbued

with

merriness

and

gladness

of

life.

However,

I

can

’

t

get

rid

of

such

biting

annoyance

even

for

one

day

.

Life

is

just

a

gaudy

robe

abounding

with

louses.

于千万人之中，遇见你要遇见的人。于千万年 之中，时间无涯的荒野里，没有早一步，也没有

迟一步，遇上了只能轻轻地说一句：

“哦，你也在这里吗？”

Among

thousands

of

people,

and

meet

you

’

ve

met;

through

thousands

of

years,

among

the

boundlessness of time, you happen to meet them.

Neither too earlier nor a bit too late, when the only

softly say:

“

you are here?

”

20. Albert Einstein

a theoretical physicist

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

一个从未犯错的人是因为他不曾尝试新鲜食物。

Before God we are all equally wise- and equally foolish.

在上帝面前，我们都一样聪明

-

也都一样愚蠢。

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep moving.

人生就像骑单车。想保持平衡就得往前走。

21.

A lifetime of happiness!

No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

终身幸福！

这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

成功由大量的失望铸就。

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.

< br>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。

22. Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author and poet

Either loving poems or smart essays or leisurely happiness can not substitute for true friendship.

不论是多情的诗 句，漂亮的文章，还是闲暇的快乐，都不能代替真正的友情。

A foreign tongue is spread not by fire and the sword but by its own richness and superiority

.

诗歌是最精炼，最有力的语言。

23. Percy Bsshe Shelley

English poets

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

冬天来了，春天还会远吗？

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.

伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。

Beware O man

—

for knowledge must be thee, I like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

记取吧人类，因为知识对于你，正如广阔的河水之于埃及。

Wolfgang von Goethe

German winter and polymath

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。