求一些苏格拉底的名言，最好是英文的

——English Adages——

[英文]：Life is sweet.
[中文]：人生是美好的.

[英文]：Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
[中文]：人生是美好的,但要学会如何享用美好的生活.

[英文]：Life is real, life is earnest.
[中文]：人生真实,人生诚挚.
[出处]：H.W.Longfellow 朗费罗(美国诗人)

[英文]：Life is compared to a voyage.
[中文]：人生好比是一次航程.
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[英文]：Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
[中文]：生活若无波折险阻,就会过于平淡无奇.

[英文]：Life means struggle.
[中文]：生活就是斗争.

[英文]：Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
[中文]： 人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程. /人生无坦途.

[英文]：Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.
[中文]：人生像一匹马,你不驾驭它,它便驾驭你.
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[英文]：Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
[中文]：人生是一幅大画布,你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面.
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[英文]：Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
[中文]：人生如一首乐曲,要用乐感,感情和直觉去谱写.不能只按乐律行事.

[英文]：Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
[中文]：生活是绘画,不是做算术.
[出处]：O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯

[英文]：Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.
[中文]：生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话.
[出处]：A.Lowell 洛威尔

[英文]：On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.
[中文]：地球上唯一伟大的是人,人身上唯一伟大的是心灵.
[出处]：A.Hamilton 哈密尔顿

[英文]：Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
[中文]：人的一切----面貌,衣着,心灵和思想,都应该是美好的.
[出处]：Chekhov 契诃夫

[英文]：All things in their being are good for something.
[中文]：天生我才必有用.

[英文]：The good or ill of man lies within his own will
[中文]：人的善良或邪恶都存在于他自己的意志之中.
[出处]：[古希腊]Epictetus 爱比克泰德

[英文]：He is born in a good hour who gets a good name.
[中文]：生逢其时,美誉自至.
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[英文]：Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
[中文]：生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成.
[出处]：T.Fuller 富勒

[英文]：Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limitless.
[中文]：要这样生活,仿佛你寿命永恒.要这样工作,仿佛你精力无穷.
[出处]：S.Bernhardt 伯恩哈特(法国女演员)

[英文]：To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
[中文]：生活是一种人人须学而无人能教的艺术.
[出处]：H.Ellis 埃利斯

[英文]：Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.
[中文]：生活是一种外语,谁都发不好它的音.
[出处]：C.D.Morley 莫利

[英文]：Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
[中文]：生活教会了我思考,但思考却没有教会我生活.
[出处]：A.Herzen 赫尔岑(俄国作家,哲学家)

[英文]：I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.
[中文]：人生道路艰难困苦,难怪婴儿出世就哭. /我方出世,哭泣不止,为何如此,日月自知.

[英文]：Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
[中文]：困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书.

[英文]：The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
[中文]：人的正确功能是生活,而不是生存.
[出处]：Jack London 杰克.伦敦(美国小说家)

[英文]：I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
[中文]：梦里见到人生无比美丽,醒时发现义务即是人生.

[英文]：One should eat to live, not live to eat.
[中文]：人生应为生而食,不应为食而生.
[出处]：Socrates 苏格拉底

[英文]：Live not to eat, but eat to live.
[中文]：不要为了吃饭活着,而要为了活着吃饭.

[英文]：I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
[中文]：我吃东西只是为了不再去想食物.
[出处]：N.F.Simpson 辛普森

[英文]：Life lies not in living but in liking.
[中文]：生活的意义并不在于活着,而在于爱好人生.

[英文]：The unexamined life is not worth living.
[中文]：浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过.
[出处]：Socrates 苏格拉底

[英文]：Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
[中文]：生活就像洋葱头:你只能一层一层地把它剥开,有时你还得流泪.
[出处]：C.Sandburg 桑德堡

[英文]：Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.
[中文]：生活不在于握有一手好牌,而在于把手里的牌打好.
[出处]：J.Billings 比林斯

[英文]：Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
[中文]：生活是一种艺术,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论.
[出处]：S.Butler 勃特勒

[英文]：Life is not all beer and skittles.
[中文]：人生并非只是啤酒和九柱戏. /人生并不全是吃喝玩乐.
[出处]：T.Hughes 休斯(英国作家)

[英文]：For man is man and master of his fate.
[中文]：人就是人,是自己命运的主人.
[出处]：A.Tennyson 丁尼生

[英文]：You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
[中文]：你并不掌管整个宇宙,但你得掌管你自己.
[出处]：A.Bennett 本涅特

[英文]：There is a history in all men's lives.
[中文]：所有人的生活里都有一部历史.
[出处]：Shakespeare 莎士比亚

[英文]：There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
[中文]：宇宙中只有一芥之地你肯定可以改善,那就是你自己.
[出处]：A.Huxley 赫胥黎

[英文]：The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
[中文]：生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们.
[出处]：[法]V.Hugo 雨果

英文]：Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
[中文]：人生应该树立目标,否则你的精力会白白浪费.
[出处]：R.Peters 彼得斯

[英文]：The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
[中文]：人生重要的在于确立一个伟大的目标,并有决心使其实现.
[出处]：Goethe 歌德

[英文]：None is of freedom or life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
[中文]：只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由.
[出处]：[荷兰]Erasmus 伊拉斯漠

[英文]：What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
[中文]：没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光.
[出处]：George Eliot 乔治.埃略特

[英文]：Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
[中文]：不要认为取胜就是一切,更重要的是要有信念,倘若你没有信念,那胜利又有什么意义呢?
[出处]：Lane Kirkland 莱恩.柯克兰

[英文]：He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon than he who aims at a tree.
[中文]：瞄准月亮的人总比瞄准树的人射得高. /目标远大,效果必佳.

[英文]：Hitch your wagon to a star.
[中文]：把你的马车拴到星星上. /要胸怀大志.

[英文]：We are not born for ourselves.
[中文]：人之有生,不为一已.

[英文]：As long as you live, you should be man useful to the people. /Be useful to the people all your life.
[中文]：活着就要做一个对人民有用的人.

[英文]：Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
[中文]：只有为别人而活,生命才有价值.
[出处]：A.Einstein 爱因斯坦

[英文]：He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.
[中文]：只为自己活着的人,不值得活在世上.

[英文]：Make yourself necessary to someone.
[中文]：使自己成为别人需要的人.
[出处]：R.W.Emerson 爱默生

[英文]：Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people.
[中文]：白求恩同志毫不利已专门利人的精神,表现在他对工作的极端负责任,对同志对人民的极端热忱.
[出处]：Mao Zedong 毛泽东

[英文]：I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.
[中文]：我想揭示大自然的秘密,用来造福人类.我认为,在我们的短暂一生中,最好的贡献莫过于此了.
[出处]：Edison 爱迪生

[英文]：Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
[中文]：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.
[出处]：Lincoln 林肯

[英文]：To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
[中文]：活着就要发挥作用,这就是生活的全部内容.
[出处]：Holmes 霍姆斯

[英文]：Only when one plunges into the powerful current of the times will one's life shine brilliantly.
[中文]：一个人只有投身于伟大的时代洪流中,他的生命才会闪耀出光彩.

[英文]：Man can only be free through mastery of himself.
[中文]：只有通过掌握自己,才能使自己得到解放.
[出处]：S.E.Morison 莫里森

[英文]：One man, no man.
[中文]：个人是渺小的.

[英文]： Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
[中文]：只有向后看才能理解生活;但要生活好,则必须向前看.
[出处]：Kierkegaard 克尔恺郭尔

[英文]：While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will. And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living.
[中文]：只要还有一块知识和意志尚未征服的领域,只要人们能自由思考和行动,生活就是值得的.
[出处]：A.Austin 奥斯汀(英国作家)

[英文]：Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
[中文]：不要害怕你的生活将要结束,应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始.
[出处]：J.H.Newman 纽曼

[英文]：We are here to add what we can you to life, not to get what we can from it.
[中文]：我们来到世上是为了尽自己所能给生活增加一些东西,而不是为了从生活中获取我们所能得到的一切.
[出处]：W.Osler奥斯勒

[英文]：Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
[中文]：生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它,有百分之九十在于你如何对待它.
[出处]：I.Berlin 柏林

[英文]：The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.
[中文]：生命的最大用处是将它用于比生命更长久的事物上.
[出处]：W.James 詹姆斯

[英文]：Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary and practical work that is needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be sweet to the ear.
[中文]：多做一些人民需要的,日常的,细小的,平凡而实际的工作,胜过说一千句漂亮动听的话语.

[英文]：Life is made up of little things.
[中文]：生活是由许多小事构成的.

[英文]：No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
[中文]：在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的.
[出处]：C.Dickens 狄更斯

[英文]：Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
[中文]：衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为,而不是时间.
[出处]：J.Lubbock 卢伯克

[英文]：The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
[中文]：生命的价值不在于能活多少天,而在于我们如何使用这些日子.
[出处]：Montaigne 蒙田

[英文]：Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
[中文]：要选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生.
[出处]：[古罗马]C.Nepos 内波斯

[英文]：The first step is as good as half over.
[中文]：第一步是最关键的一步.

[英文]：Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
[中文]：河流虽历尽险阻,也能蜿蜓流入大海.

[英文]：Goals determine what you are going to be.
[中文]：目标决定你将成为什么样的人.
[出处]：Julius Erving 朱利叶斯.欧文

[英文]：Young people must equip themselves for life's duties and guard against its temptations.
[中文]：年轻人必须为履行生活所赋予他们的职责充实自己,同时要抵制生活的诱惑.

[英文]：Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
[中文]：生活没有目标就像航海没有罗盘.

[英文]：All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
[中文]：人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个----等待和希望.
[出处]：Alexandre Dumas Pere 大仲马(法国作家)

[英文]：Ideals are like the stars--we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
[中文]：理想就像是星星--我们永远够不着星星,但是我们像水手一样,用它们指引航程.
[出处]：C.Schurz 舒尔茨(美国政治家)

[英文]：Hope is life and life is hope
[中文]：希望就是生活,生活也就是希望.

[英文]：If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
[中文]：人靠希望活着.

[英文]：While there is life there is hope.
[中文]：一息尚存,希望不灭.
[出处]：英国谚语

[英文]：He that lives in hope dances without music.
[中文]：生活在希望中的人,没有音乐照样跳舞.

[英文]：Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
[中文]：人生永远满怀希望. /只要有人,就有希望.

[英文]：I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
[中文]：我告诉你,没有希望的悲伤是没有感情的.
[出处]：E.B.Browning 布朗宁夫人(英国诗人)

[英文]：Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
[中文]：希望是美好的早餐,却是糟糕的晚餐.
[出处]：F.Bacon 培根

[英文]：Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
[中文]：机会是个没有意义的词;任何事物都不会无缘无故地存在.

[英文]：He who has never hoped can never despair.
[中文]：从来没有抱过什么希望的人也永远不会失望.
[出处]：Bernard Show 萧伯纳

[英文]：When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[中文]：当一个内心开始斗争时,他就有了价值.
[出处]：R.Browning 布朗宁

[英文]：He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life.
[中文]：一切都指望机会的人使自己的生活变得像赌彩票一样.

[英文]：Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
[中文]：希望本身是一种幸福,也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福.
[出处]：S.Johnson 约翰逊

[英文]：Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy.
[中文]：希望对幸福的人是不好的事,对不幸福的人是好事.
[出处]：L.Tolstoy 托尔斯泰

[英文]：You never know your luck.
[中文]：命运好坏不由已.
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[英文]：Chance generally favours the prudent.
[中文]：运气通常照顾深思熟虑者.
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[英文]：The wish is father to the thought.
[中文]：思考源于愿望. /心有所欲,脑有所思.
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[英文]：Man is not made for defeat.
[中文]：创造人不是为了让他遭受失败. /人不是为失败而生的.
[出处]：E.Hemingway 海明威

[英文]：Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
[中文]：不要为成功而努力,要为作一个有价值的人而努力.
[出处]：A.Einstein 爱因斯坦

温蒂·格兰杰 2005-3-27 12:10 PM

[英文]：Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
[中文]：我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来.
[出处]：O.Goldsmith \ 戈德史密斯

[英文]：Popularity?It's glory's small change.
[中文]：名望吗?那不过是光荣的零头.
[出处]：V.Hugo 雨果

[英文]：There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
[中文]：只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生.
[出处]：C.Morley 莫利

[英文]：It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
[中文]：光勤劳是不够的,蚂蚁也是勤劳的.要看你为什么而勤劳.
[出处]：H.D.Thoreau 梭罗

[英文]：Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
[中文]：人类生存的最大魔法,是从稍纵即逝的事物中攫取永恒.

[英文]：We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
[中文]：我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无穷的.
[出处]：Martin Luther King.Jr. 马丁.路德.金

[英文]：Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
[中文]：横眉冷对千夫指,俯首甘为孺子牛.
[出处]：Lu Xun 鲁迅

[英文]：Take little, but give(or offer)much.
[中文]：应少索取,而多奉献.

[英文]：The cow eats grass but gives milk.
[中文]：牛吃的是草,挤出来的是奶.
[出处]：Lu Xun 鲁迅

[英文]：A man's life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people. I will dedicate my limited life to the limitless job of serving the people.
[中文]：人的生命是有限的,可是,为人民服务是无限的,我要把有限的生命,投入到无限的为人民服务之中去......
[出处]：LeiFeng雷锋

[英文]：You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
[中文]：人必须相信自已,这是成功的秘诀.
[出处]：Charles Chaplin查理.卓别林

[英文]：Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing.
[中文]：永远记住:你争取成功的决心才是头等重要的.
[出处]：Abraham Lincoln亚伯拉罕.林肯

[英文]：Even a small star shines in the darkness.
[中文]：星星再小,也会发光.
[出处]：芬兰谚语

[英文]：Be concerned about the affairs of state before others, and enjoy comfort after others. Be the first to feel concern about state affairs and the last to enjoy yourself.
[中文]：先天下之忧,后天下之乐而乐.

[英文]：Give me liberty or give me death.
[中文]：不自由,毋宁死.

[英文]：Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
[中文]：没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了.
[出处]：( 越南)Ho Chi Minh胡志明

[英文]：Who loses liberty loses all.
[中文]：失掉自由使失掉一切.

[英文]：Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
[中文]：宁自由而贫困,毋奴于人而富足.

[英文]：Only the selfless can be fearless.
[中文]：无私才能无畏.
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
[中文]：人活百年不嫌多.

[英文]：To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
[中文]：活在生者的心里,就是不死.
[出处]：T.Campbell坎贝尔

[英文]：You should, like a candle, burn yourself out to give light to others.
[中文]：要像蜡烛一样燃烧自已,照亮别人.

[英文]：He devoted himself entirely to the service off the people until his death. /Give one's all till one's heart stops beating.
[中文]：鞠躬尽瘁,死而后已.

[英文]：The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
[中文]：人生在世的首要大事是保持灵魂的高尚.
[出处]：(法)Flaubert福楼拜

[英文]：Business before pleasure.
[中文]：先工作,后娱乐. /干完正事再玩儿.

[英文]：Be sure before you marry of a house where in to tarry.
[中文]：先立业,后成家.

[英文]：I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
[中文]：我不缅怀过去的历史,而致力于未来的梦想.
[出处]：T.Jefferson杰弗逊(美国第3任总统)

[英文]：I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
[中文]：我不害怕明天,因为我见过昨天,又热爱今天.
[出处]：W.A.White怀特美国记者)

[英文]：Hope well and have well.
[中文]：善寄希望于未来,又善保有现在.

[英文]：Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
[中文]：有所成就乃是人生唯一的真正乐趣.
[出处]：T.Edison爱迪生

[英文]：The world is his who enjoys it.
[中文]：世界属于热爱世界的人.

[英文]：Establishing goals is all right if your don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
[中文]：不妨订立目标,只要你不让它阻挡你兜有趣的圈子.

[英文]：What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
[中文]：因循蹉跎,一事无成.

[英文]：Little things please little minds.
[中文]：小事满足小志者. /胸无大志,事事称心.

[英文]：A penny soul never came to two penny.
[中文]：志小者成不了大事. /心胸狭窄,一事无成.

[英文]：The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
[中文]：世事如长梯,有人上来有人下.

[英文]：The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement off the heart.
[中文]：生活的地平线是随着心灵的开阔而变宽广的.
[出处]：H.Black布莱克

[英文]：Nothing seek, nothing find.
[中文]：无所求则无所获.

[英文]：Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
[中文]：幸福是太多和太少之间的一站.
[出处]：C.Pollock波洛克

[英文]：Most folks are about as happy as they make up