・・・The Collection of English Proverbs [No.1]・・・
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not
ignorance --it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred
or bitterness towards anyone.
- Edith Cavell(Last words)
Somebody must play the bad parts in this world,
on and off the stage.
- A.W.Pinero
The Whole world is about three drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart
When childhood dies, its corpses are called
adults.
- Brian Aldiss
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid
that it will never begin.
- Grace Hansen
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two
days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
- Jascha Heifetz
Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Make the most of yourself for that is all there
is to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of
mind.
- Samuel Ullman
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
To marry be like jumping into a river because
you're thirsty.
- Eden Phillpotts
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
- Charles Churchill
Live well. It is greatest revenge.
-The Talmud
It's better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all.
- Alfred Tennyson
People ask you for criticism, but they only
want praise.
- Samerset Maugham
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
There is only one success - to be able to spend
you life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley
What counts in making a happy marriage is not
so much how compatible you are,
But how you deal with incompatibility.
-Giorge Levinger
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt
those who find it.
-Andre Gide
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
Children have more need of models than of
critics.
-Joseph Joubert
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their
names.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Other things may change us, but we start and
end with the family.
-Anthony Brandt
Man knows so much and does so little.
-R・Buckminster Fuller
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of
course, the world itself.
-Wallace Stevens
Men are not against you; they are merely for
themselves.
-Gene Fowler
Hell is other people.
-Jean P Sartre
A sad barnyard where the hen crows louder than
the cock.
-English Proverbs
Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle
of a wedding ring.
-Colley Cibber
Every man can rule an ill wife but him that has
her.
-English Proverbs
The uglier the woman, the better the
house-wife.
-German proverbs
A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only,
choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
-Thomas Fuller
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a
man's certainty.
-Rudyard Kipling
We women do talk too much, but even then we
don't tell half we know.
-Nancy Astor
The reason you have no money is because you
don't love it for itself alone.
Money won't ever surrender to such a flirt.
-Finley Peter Dunne
Money is like a sixth sense--and you can't make
use of the other five without it.
-Somerset Maugham
When I was young, I used to think that money
was the most important thing in life. Now that I know it is.
-Oscar Wilde
It is not the man has too little, but the man
who craves more, that is poor.
-Seneca
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