英语谚语和名人名言集：Human，Nature and Society

it takes all sorts to make a world。

大千世界，千奇百怪。

On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind.

在世界上没有一件东西有如人那样伟大，在人之身上没有一件东西有如心那么伟大。

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

— George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist

正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。

——英国剧作家 G. 肖伯纳

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.

— Michel de Montaigne, French Writer

生活的价值不在于生命的长短，而在于我们是怎样度过的。

—— 蒙田 法国作家

If you would have new knowledge, you must get a whole world of questions.

— Susanne K. Langer, American philosopher

要想有新的知识，就必须提出大量的问题。

—— 美国哲学家 S. K. 兰格

As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.

— Hugh Black, American writer

水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜和寒冷的雨水才能成熟。同样，人的性情陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。

——美国作家 H. 布莱克

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom and prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

— Omar Bradley, American general

这是个只有核巨人和道德侏儒的世界。如果我们继续无知而随意地发展科技，我们的仆人也许就是我们的掘墓人。

—— 美国上将 O. 布雷德利

Work is more than a necessary for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity and creativity.

— Leonard R. Sayles, British writer

对大多数人来 说，工作不仅仅是一种必需，它还是人们生活的焦点，是他们的个性和创造性的

源泉。

—— 英国作家 L.R. 塞尔斯

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

—Albert Einstein, American scientist

任何一种人与人之间的和平合作首先是基于相互信任基础上的，其次才是基于诸如法庭、警察等制度上的。

——美国科学家 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

What's the use of worrying

It never was worthwhile

So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag

And smile, smile, smile

—George Asaf, British poet

担忧又有什么用

不值得为它浪费时间

把烦恼塞进行囊去

让微笑永远充满你的心田

节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》（第二册）（主编 李华田，武汉大学出版社，2012年6月）