Doing nothing: That’s hard work. - Fowels
无所事事是项艰巨的工作。 -福尔斯( 1926— ,英国作家)
Be thankful if your job is a little harder than you like. A razor can’t be sharpened on a piece of velvet. - Unknown
如果你的工作比所希望的更艰苦,你应充满感激之情;要知道,剃刀是不可能在绒布上变得锋利的。 -无名氏
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work. - Unknown
美梦不会成真,除非你从梦中醒来并开始工作。 -无名氏
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
没有天赋,就没有艺术家;没有辛勤的劳动,就没有天赋。 - E·左拉( 1840—1902,法国作家、评论家)
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin
勤奋是幸运之母。 - B·富兰克林( 1706—1790,美国政治家、作家、科学家)
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
每个人的教育历程中都有这么一个时期,那就是他开始相信妒忌是无知,模仿无异于自杀。 - R·W·爱默生( 1803- 1882,美国诗人、作家、哲学家)
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
教育就是这么一个过程,你受某个你不认识的人的教导,学一些你不想知道的东西。 - G·K·切斯特顿( 1874-1936,英国作家)
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard
你可以把一个男孩领进大学校园,但你无法强迫他思考。- E·胡巴德( 1856-1915,美国作家)
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. - Aristotle
受过教育的人与未受教育的人的区别之大,就如同生与死的区别之大一样。 -亚里士多德( 384-322B.C.,希腊哲学家)
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - George Macaulay Trevelyan
教育……造就了一大批识字的人,却无法让他们区分哪些书是值得读的。 - G·M·特里维利安( 1876-1962,英国历史学家)
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
如果把金钱投资到智力上,就没有人可以把它拿走。在知识方面的投资总能获得最佳利息。 - B·富兰克林( 1706- 1790,美国政治家、作家、科学家)
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. - John F. Kennedy
国家的进步快不过其在教育方面的进步。 -约翰·F·肯尼迪( 1917- 1963,美国前总统)
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. - Anatole France
教育并不是你牢记了多少东西,或是你知道了多少东西。它是一种区分知与不知的能力。 - A·弗朗斯( 1844- 1924,法国作家, 1921 年获诺贝尔文学奖)
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey
教育是一种社会进程……教育是成长……教育不是对生活的准备;其本身就是生活。 -约翰·杜威
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
只教人做学问而不教人做人,这无异于给社会制造威胁。 - T·罗斯福( 1858-1919,美国前总统 1901-1903)
Love makes one fit for any work. - George Herbert
热爱使人适合任何工作。 - G·赫伯特( 1593- 1633,英国牧师、诗人)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles Schwab
只要有无穷的热情,几乎任何事情都能成功。 -查里斯·希沃伯
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
一切伟大事物的实现都离不开热情。 - R·W·爱默生( 1803-1882,美国诗人、作家、哲学家)
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Steve Droke
知识就是力量,由热情启动开关。 -史提夫·德洛克
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. - Charles A. Cerami
绝大多数伟人的性格并非完美无缺,但他们强烈的热情使得他们的缺点变得无关紧要。 -查里斯·塞弥
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today. - William Allen White
我并不害怕明天,因为我已见过昨天并且热爱今天。 - W·A·怀特( 1868- 1944,美国记者)
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. - Pearl Buck
如果你想了解今天,就必须研究昨天。 -赛珍珠( 1892-1973,美国小说家)
We are passing from the sphere of history to the sphere of the present and partly to the sphere of the future. - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
我们正经由历史的范畴进入现在的范畴,并部分地进入将来的范畴。 - V·I·列宁( 1870- 1924,俄国共产主义运动领袖)
Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.- Voltaire
古人充满了对更为遥远的古人的颂扬。 -伏尔泰( 1694- 1778, 法国作家、戏剧家、哲学家、历史学家,原名 Fran ois Marie Arouet)
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. - Richard Henry Tawney
一个时代确凿无疑的观念是下一个时代的难题。 - R·H·汤尼( 1880- 1962,英国经济历史学家)
Each generation believes on the one hand that the ancients were better than the moderns and on the other that the human race is continually progressing and improving. - Giacomo Leopardi
每代人都在一方面相信古代人要比现代人好,另一方面又相信人类在不断进步和改善。 - G·里奥柏蒂( 1798—1837,意大利诗人)
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Matsuo Basho
不要去追寻前人的足迹,去追求他们所追求的目标吧。 -松尾芭蕉( 1644-1694,日本诗人)
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. - Harold Macmillan
历史往往对那些为了今天而牺牲明天的人作出严厉的判决。 - H·麦克米伦( 1894?,英国首相 1957-1963)
History is the witness of the times, the torch of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
历史是时代的见证,真理的火炬,记忆的生命,生活的老师和古人的使者。 - M·T·西塞罗( 106-43B.C.,罗马政治家、演说家、作家)
The one thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes. - Marcel Proust
唯一不会改变的事实是:在任何一个时代似乎都发生了 “巨大的变化”。 - M·普鲁斯特( 1871-1922,法国小说家)