Music is the universal language of mankind poetry their universal pastime and delight. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
音乐是人类的通用语言 -诗歌则是人类共同的消遣和嗜好。 - H·W·朗费罗( 1807-1882,美国诗人)
Let bygones be bygones. - English proverb
往事不可谏。 -英国谚语
Forgive and forget. - English proverb
原谅并忘却。 -英国谚语
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity . We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each others folly that is the first law of nature. - Voltaire
何谓宽容? —宽容就是博爱的果实。我们都是脆弱和错误的综合体,那么让我们彼此原谅对方的过错—这是自然第一法则。 -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)
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission. - US Proverb
请求宽恕总比要求许可来得容易。 -美国谚语
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
原谅你的敌人吧,但永远不要忘记他们的名字。 - J·F·肯尼迪( 1917-1963,美国前总统)
The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln
民有、民治、民享的政府永世长存。 - A·林肯( 1809-1865,美国前总统 1861-1865)
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder,dispenses a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
民主政治是一种具有魔力的政体,它充满了变化和混乱,并且把所谓的平等施与那些平等的和不平等的人们。 -柏拉图( 427? -347B.C., 希腊哲学家)
We need in politics men who have something to give, not men who have something to get. - Bernard Baruch
我们在政治中需要有所给予的人,而不需要想有所得的人。 - B·巴鲁克( 1870-1965,美国商人、政治家)
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. - Thomas Hardy
身居要职的平庸者随便作出的决定,在某个关键时刻竟会影响事态发展达百年之久。 - T·哈代( 1840-1928,英国小说家、诗人)
Democracy is the expression of popular will. Not one man, not a group of men,but the people are supreme. Sovereignty resides in them. - Sebastien Nicolas Roche Chamfort
民主即民众意愿的表达。处于至高无上地位的不是一个人,也不是一群人,而是全体人民,主权属于他们。 -尚福尔( 1741-1794,法国作家)
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. - Grover Cleveland
政府官员是人民的奴仆和代理人,执行人民制定的法律。 - G·克利弗兰( 1837-1908,美国总统前 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. - John F. Kennedy
一个国家不仅通过它所造就的人,也通过它给予荣誉的人和它所铭记的人来展示自己。 -约翰·F·肯尼迪( 1917-1963,美国前总统)
The government of the world is a great thing, but it is a very coarse one, too,compared with the fineness of speculative knowledge. - George Savile Halifax
管理世界是件大事,但若与理论知识的精巧相比,却又显得十分粗糙。 - G·S·哈利法克斯( 1633-1695,英国散文家、政治家)
The idea of a perfect and immortal commonwealth will always be found as chimerical as that of a perfect and immortal man. - David Hume
完美而不朽的国家,就像完美而不朽的人一样纯属幻想,绝难寻觅。 - D·休漠( 1711-1776,苏格兰哲学家、历史学家)
Revolution is not the up-rising against the existing order, but the setting-up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one. - Gasset
革命并不是反对现存秩序,而是要建立一种与传统秩序相悖的新秩序。 -加塞特
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human. - Suzanne La Follette
毫无疑问,当大多数人支持人权时,他们对正确运用“人”这个词是持有自己的内心想法的。 - S·L·福莱特
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. - Pope John Paul
自由并非是指做我们乐意的事,而是指享有履行义务的权利。 -罗马教皇约翰二世( 1920)
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. - Desiderius Erasmus
只有每天为生活与自由拼搏的人,才配享有生活和自由。 - D·伊拉斯谟( 1466-1536,文艺复兴时期人文主义者,荷兰人)
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others may take;but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.- Patrick Henry
难道生命如此宝贵,和平如此甜美,以致于不惜以枷锁和奴役为代价去换取它们吗?万能的上帝,请千万别让这种事发生。 —我不知道别人会走什么路,但是就我而言,不自由,毋宁死。 - P· 亨利( 1736 - 1799,美国政治家、演说家)
Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
那些为了获取少许暂时的安全而放弃基本自由的人既不配获得自由,也不配获得安全。 - B·富兰克林( 1706-1790,美国政治家、作家、科学家)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others. - William Allen White
你不给别人自由,你自己也得不到:唯有自由有这种特性。 - W·A·怀特( 1868-1944,美国记者)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
自由意味着责任,所以大多数人害怕自由。 -萧伯纳( 1856-1950,英国剧作家)
Liberty’s in every blow! - Robert Burns
自由来自每一击! - R·彭斯( 1759-1796,苏格兰诗人)
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. - Friedrich August von Hayek
我们必须面对这样一个事实:保存个人自 由与充分满足我们对于分配公平的观点是不能并存的。 - F·A·海耶克( 1899—?,英国经济学家,诺贝尔奖 金获得者)
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle require creative imagination and marks real advances in science. - Unknown
问题的明确表达比它的解决方法更重要, 解决的办法可能只不过是数学或实验技巧方面的事情。而提出新的问题,新的可能性,从新的角度考虑老问题却需要有创造力的想象,这意味在科学上的真正进步。 -无名氏
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
问题不过是披着工作外衣的机会。 - H·凯瑟( 1882-1967,美国工业家)
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Unknown
原子能的释放并没有创造新的问题。它只是使解决已经存在的问题的需要更加迫切。 -无名氏
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright
积极的态度也许不能解决所有的问题,但它却足以令人们为此而不懈努力。 -汉姆·奥尔布莱特
The company you keep will determine the trouble you meet. - Unknown
交什么样的朋友决定你会遇到什么样的麻烦。 —无名氏