学习与工作
1. One is never too old to learn.
人有老的时候, 没有老得不能学的时候。
2. Cleverness does not take the place of knowledge.
聪明不能代替知识。
3. A wise man is never less alone than when alone.
智者独处不寂寞。
4. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
好书乃积累智慧之长明灯。
-----G. W. Curties 寇第斯
5. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
好书使人开卷有所求, 闭卷有所获。
-----L. W. Alcott 奥尔科特
6. No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
没有比读书更便宜的娱乐, 也没有比读书更持久的欢乐。
7. A man who knows two languages is worth two men.
懂得两种语言的人抵得上两个人。
8. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
智慧之于头脑, 犹如健康之于躯体。
9. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
阅读使人渊博, 会谈使人机敏, 写作使人严谨。
10. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep;moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
读史使人明智, 读诗使人灵秀, 数学使人周密, 科学使人深刻, 伦理学使人庄重, 逻辑修辞学使人善辩。
-----F. Bacon 培根
11. Bread nourishes the body, and books enrich the mind.
面包滋养身体, 书本充实头脑。
12. The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
读书越多, 越感到学识不足。
13. A book that is shut is but a block.
有书不读如藏木
14. All readers can be divided into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
所有的读者都可以分为两类: 有人为了记住而读, 有人为了忘却而读。
15. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴望读书的人和一个累了想找本书看的人是大不相同的.
-----G. K. Chesterton 切斯特顿 (英国作家)
16. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
阅读好书, 就好比是同过去多少世纪最杰出的人们交谈。
-----R. Descartes 笛卡尔
17. Laziness in youth spells regret in old age.
少壮不努力, 老大徒伤悲。
18. Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚， 无知使人骄傲。
19. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
同时追二兔， 全都抓不住。
20. One must draw back in order to leap better.
退后才能跳得更远。