经典英语名言：生存法则

1. it is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. (n. coward )
令人沮丧的是，有那么多人对诚实感到吃惊，而对欺骗感到吃惊的人却那么的少。（科沃德）
2. when i was young, i admired clever people. now that i am old, i admire kind people. (a.j.heschel )
少时喜欢聪明人，老来喜欢仁厚人。（赫歇尔）
3. achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.(thomas edison, american inventor)
有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。(美国发明家 爱迪生. t. )
4. love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea.(henryfielding, british writer)
风流韵事与丑闻是品茶聊天时的最佳话题。(英国作家菲尔丁h)
5. 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 , american president )

倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. b.)
6. ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it. (arthur schopenhauer, german philosopher )
普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。(德国哲学家 叔本华. a. ) 　
7. the ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.(albert einstein, american scientist)
有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是--真、善、美。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. a.)
8. the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ( bernard shaw )

明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。 (萧伯钠)
9. don't part with your illusions. when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (mark twain, american writer)
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。（(美国作家 马克•吐温)
10. if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.( pearl buck, american female writer) 想要懂得今天，就必须研究昨天。(美国女作家 赛珍珠) 　
11. when an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory.(abraham lincoln, american statesman)
如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. a.)

12. a man is not old as long as he is seeking something. a man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (j. barrymore)
只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。（巴里摩尔）
13. if you would go up high , then use your own legs! do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads . (f. w . nietzsche , german philosopher)
如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采. f. w.)
14. do you love life? then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.(benjamin franklin, american president)
你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。(美国总统 富兰克林. b.) 　
15. it is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. what are you industrious about?( h.d. thoreau)
光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。（梭罗）