名人經典語錄1

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

歷史對我不錯，因為都是我寫的。

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

謊言環游全球的時候，真相還沒穿好褲子。

Never, never, never give in!

永不，永不，永不屈服。

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill

阿斯特女士：如果你是我老公，我就在你酒里下毒。

丘吉爾：如果你是我老婆，我毫不猶豫喝下去。

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

我本人是個樂觀主義者，因為做別的貌似沒什么用。

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

成功不要緊，失敗不致命。繼續前行的勇氣，才最可貴。

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

悲觀主義者在每個機會里看到困難。樂觀主義者在每個困難里看到機會。

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

勇氣是能站起來侃侃而談。勇氣也是能坐下來靜靜傾聽。

You have enemies? Good. That means you‘ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

你有敵人?很好。這說明在你的生命中的某個時刻，你曾經吶喊過。

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

要求不高，只求最好。

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

人經常被真相困擾。但是大多數人裝作沒看見就走了。

“If you are going through hell, keep going.

如果你感覺自己在走過地獄。走著別停。

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

圓滑就是能讓人滿懷憧憬的走向地獄。

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

成功就是不斷失敗不失信心。

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

我喜歡豬。狗崇拜人類。貓鄙視人類。豬對我們一視同仁。

A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk‘, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

先生，你醉了。

女士，我今天是醉了。但明天我清醒了，你就要丑了。

A fanatic is one who can‘t change his mind and won‘t change the subject.

神經病就是既不肯聽勸又不肯換個話題。

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

僅僅做到我們的最好是不夠的，有時候我們得達到要求。

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

命運不靠機緣，而是靠你的抉擇。命運不是等來的，而是爭來的。

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

我們都是小蟲。但我是發著光的小蟲。

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

無限的努力是打開潛能的關鍵—而不是實力與頭腦。

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

人生最重要的一課就是：傻子有時候也是對的。

We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

我們相信美國會做正確的事。當然，是在她嘗盡其他一切可能之后。

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is Ppared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

我準備好見上帝了。上帝準沒準備好見我還很難說。

You don‘t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

劫富無法濟貧。

Don‘t interrupt me while I‘m interrupting.

我打斷你的時候不許打斷我!

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

求和者就是希望鱷魚最后一個吃自己的人。

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

我們是沒說出的話的主人。我們是說出的話的努力。

“The price of greatness is responsibility.

偉大的代價是責任。

All the great things are simple, and many can be exPssed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

偉大的事情總是簡單，最偉大的事情只有一個詞：自游，正義，榮譽，責任，仁慈，希望。

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people‘s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if