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1. A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship.—Rockefeller
   建立在商務基礎上的友誼勝過建立在友誼基礎上的商務 —洛克菲勒

2. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -Coleridge
忠告有如雪片,掉的越輕柔,盤據心頭越久,滲入心靈越深 -柯勒律治

3. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
廣告可被視為一種長久蒙蔽人類智慧以期從中賺錢的技巧

4. All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
世人皆懷著一種與生俱來的欲望,要把支出超過收入,此乃一切進步的動力

5. Avarice, the spur of industry. 貪婪是工業的興奮劑

6. A politician think of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. -J.F. Clarke
政客想的是下一次選舉;政治家想的是下一代 -克拉克

7. All religion must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way. -Frederick the Great
所有宗教都得容忍,因為每個人都必須以自己的方式上天堂 -菲特烈大帝

8. A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -Santayana
人的雙腳必須植根於他的國家,但他的雙眼必須縱覽全世界 -桑塔亞那

9. Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
忠告很少受到歡迎。最需要忠告的人最不喜歡忠告

10. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
衰微之心有若顯微鏡,只能放大瑣碎之物,但無法接納宏偉之物

11. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
膽小者在危險之前害怕,懦弱者在危險時害怕,勇者在事後害怕

12. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. —Mark Twain
銀行家就是晴天借傘給你,一下雨便把傘討回去的傢伙 —馬克吐溫

13. Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. —Horace 苦難顯才華,好運隱天資 —賀瑞斯

14. Almost any situation—good or bad —is affected by the attitude we bring to. —Seneca
任何一種處境—無論是好是壞—幾乎都受到我們態度的影響 —塞內加

15. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller
雖然世界多苦難,但是苦難總是能戰勝的—海倫·凱勒

16. Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilized life. -Spencer
建築、雕塑、繪畫、音樂與詩歌,可真正稱為文明生活之花盛開 -史賓塞

17. All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. -Ruskin
所有書可分成兩類:一時之書與永恆之書 -羅斯金

18. A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. -David McCord 一把沙就是宇宙的一本選集 -馬考德

19. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
跟往常一樣,勝利找到一百位父親,但失敗是位孤兒

20. Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.
只有經由荷馬,阿奇里斯才能存在。把寫作藝術從這世界拿走,你也許拿走了這個世界的光采

21. A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials.
好的佈道應像女人的裙子:短得足以激起興趣,又長得足以遮掩重要部位

22. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. —Oscar Wilde
女人都變得好像她們的媽,那是她們的悲劇。男人卻不會,那是他們的悲劇

23. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.—Mark Twain
你這一生只需要無知與信心,那就一定會成功

24. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill
雖已準備當烈士,我仍寧可拖晚一點—邱吉爾

25. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde
永遠要原諒你的敵人。沒有什麼更讓他們惱火的了   —王爾德

26. A work of art is a magic mirror in which man is able to see his own soul. -Shaw
藝術作品是一面人們能看到自己靈魂深處的魔鏡 -蕭伯納

27. All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -Conrad
除了那些站在人類不幸與輕信之上往上爬的野心之外,所有野心都是合法的 -康拉德

28. A fence sets men together, not apart. —Peck
籬笆把人圍在一起,而不是把人分開 —派克

29. All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. —John Locke
人都會犯錯誤,而且多半仍是由於欲望或興趣的引誘而犯錯誤。—洛克

30. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. —Montaigne
害怕痛苦的人已經在承受他所害怕的痛苦了 —蒙田

31. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers. —Plato
正如空容器發出的聲音最大,智力最低者最善於嘮叨不休 —柏拉圖


32. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
教師的影響是永恆的;無法估計他的影響會有多深遠

33. And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. —Chaucer 勤於學習的人才能樂意施教 —喬叟

34. A great man is always willing to be little. — Emerson 偉大的人物總是願意當小人物 —愛默生

35. A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.
一個人可以把馬帶到河邊,但他不能令它飲水

36. All for one, one for all. —Dumas pére 人人為我,我為人人 —大仲馬

37. Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. — Jules Verne
但凡人能想像到的事物,必定有人能將它實現 —凡爾納

38. A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.—Durant 政治家成不了道德家 —杜蘭

39. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.—Hugo
稱讚有點像是透過面紗的親吻

40. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
我不願當主人,正如我不願當奴隸

41. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
智者得自他敵人的益處,多過愚人得自他朋友的益處

42. All who take the sword will perish with the sword. 凡動刀的人必死於刀下

43. All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope.
人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個詞—等待和希望

44. As a rule, men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they actually possess.
一般說來,人習慣上只運用了他們真正擁有能力的一小部分

45. A hungry man is not a free man.—Stevenson
飢餓的人並非自由的人 —史蒂文生

46. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
母親不是賴以依靠的人,而是使依靠成為不必要的人

47. All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. —Abraham Lincoln
我之所有,我之所能,都歸功於我天使般的母親 —林肯

48. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. —G. B Shaw
終身幸福!這是任何活著的人都無法忍受的,那將是人間地獄 —蕭伯納

49. Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.
離別之於愛情好比風之於火,它能將小火熄滅,使大火熊熊燃燒

50. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. —Picasso
藝術是一種使我們能夠實現真實的謊言 —畢卡索

51. All men are creative, but few are artists. 人人皆有創意,但藝術家卻少之又少

52. Art is a lie that tells the truth. —Picasso  美術是揭示真理的謊言 —畢卡索

53. All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience. 凡是沒有實際經驗的,都只是口頭智慧

54. Art is long, and time is fleeting. —Longfellow
 藝術是永恆的,時間則是瞬息即逝的 —朗費羅

55. Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it!
藝術遠沒有生活重要,但是沒有藝術生活是多麼乏味呀!

56. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. —Tolstoy
藝術不是手藝,它是藝術家的體驗到的感情的傳遞 —托爾斯泰

57. Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.
藝術是感情的模式,猶如語言是思想的模式

58. Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature.
藝術是情感的客觀表現。也是本性的主觀反映

59. Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. —Schiller
藝術是自然的右手。自然只讓我們存在,而藝術讓我們成為人類 —席勒

60. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
藝術是人類靈魂貯存的蜂蜜,由不幸和勞苦的雙翼採集而來

61. A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. —Shelley
偉大的詩篇即是永遠噴出智慧和歡欣之水的噴泉 —雪萊

62. A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. —Stendhal
一部小說猶如一面在大街上走的鏡子 —司湯達爾

63. At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. —Benjamin Franklin
二十歲時支配我們的是意志,三十歲是機智,四十歲是判斷 —佛蘭克林

64. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.—Orwell
所有動物皆平等,但有些動物比其他動物更平等 —歐威爾

65. A picture is a poem without words. —Horace
 一幅畫是一首沒有文字的詩歌 —賀瑞斯

66. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
詩人是這樣的人,他架起通向星星的梯子,一邊爬梯子,一邊拉提琴

67. A poet is born, not made.  詩人靠天分,不是靠培養

68. Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. —Da Vinci
辯論時引經據典的人,不是運用自己的才智,而是運用記憶力 —達文西

69. Activity is the only road to knowledge.—George Bernard Shaw
行動是通往知識的唯一道路 —蕭伯納

70. A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. —Thomas Jefferson
一個自由的人除了從書本上獲取知識外,還有許多別的來源 —傑弗遜

71. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
  -Anton Chekhov
任何白癡都能面對危機—讓你筋疲力竭的卻是日常生活—契可夫

72. A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
我的大部分知識都是這樣獲得的:在尋找某個資料時意外的發現了別的資料

73. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
—Benjamin Franklin
傾己所有追求知識,沒有人能奪走它;投資知識,收益最佳 —佛蘭克林

74. A good book does reward you for trying to read it.
一本好書確實會因你想讀它而獎賞你

75. All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.  —Marie Curie
我這一生看見大自然的新景象時,總會像個孩子似的雀躍—居禮夫人

76. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
一顆草不過就是偽裝中的花朵罷了

77. A flower is an educated weed.
一朵花就是有教養的草

78. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
不要問國家能為你們做些什麼,而要問你們能為國家做些什麼

79. Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.  —Albert Camus
秋天是第二個春天,每片葉子皆是花朵—卡謬

80. Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. 秋天是一年最後、最可愛的微笑

81. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. 擁抱有如飛去來—馬上可以回收

82. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
一個親吻可能是逗點、問號或是驚嘆號。那是每個女人都該知道的基礎拼字法

83. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.  -Thomas Carlyle
一個充滿愛的心是所有知識的開始—卡萊爾

84. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.  -Thomas Carlyle
男人透過眼睛墜入情網,女人則透過耳朵—卡萊爾

85. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
  -William Shakespeare 為了如此和善的心,女人寧可赴湯蹈火—莎士比亞

86. A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. 第一流的湯勝於第二流的繪畫

87. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.  -Michelangelo
人用腦子畫圖,而非用手—米開蘭基羅

88. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. 廣告是二十世紀的洞穴藝術

89. Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life. —Thomas Edison
有所成就是人生唯一的真正樂趣 —愛迪生

90. A light heart lives long. —Shakespeare  豁達者長壽 —莎士比亞

91. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
任何人都可能熱情奔放,但真正的戀人才會傻呼呼的

92. A faithful friend is the medicine of life.  —The Bible, Ecclesiastics 6. 16
有個忠實的朋友是人生的良藥。   聖經傳道書第六章16節

93. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
真正的朋友是世人都出走的時候,仍然願意走進來的人。

94. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
真正的朋友是忽略你的挫敗、忍受你的成功的人。

95. All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend. —Voltaire
人世間所有的榮華富貴不如一個好朋友 —伏爾泰

96. Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. 書之於人類,正如記憶之於個人

97. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. —Socrates
一定要結婚;如果娶到好老婆,你會幸福;如果娶到惡妻,你會成為哲學家 —蘇格拉底

98. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. 金窩,銀窩,不如自家的草窩

99. But has the last word been said? Is all hope to be lost? Is the defeat final? No! —Charles De Gaulle
但是難道敗局已定,勝利已經無望?不是的! —戴高樂

100. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. 明槍易躲,暗劍難防

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