・・・The collection of English proverbs [No.2]・・・
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose
your money;
Lend, and the chances are that you lose yourfriend if ever you
get back your money.
-Sir Edward Bulwar-Lytton
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age
a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Every man desires to live long; but no man
would be old.
-Johathan Swift
War is much too serious a thing to be left to
military man.
-Talleyrand
I do not know why I am so sad; there is an old
fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
-Heine
Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.
-Emile Zola
Imperialism is a paper tiger.
-Mao-Tse-Tung
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes
place everyday.
-Albert Camus
Home, home, sweet, sweet, home!
There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
Be it ever so humble, there's no place home!
-John Howard Payne
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring
from trifles.
-Aristotle
While there's life, there's hope.
-Terence
There is no greater grief than to recall a time
of happiness when in misery.
-Dante
I am going in search of a great perhaps.
-Rabelais
To live is like to love-all reason is against
it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-Butler
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles,
with sniffles predominating.
-O. Henry
A woman's whole life is a history of
affections.
-Irving
Love is like the measles; we all have to go
through it.
-Jerome K. Jerome
It matters not how a man dies, but how he
lives.
-James Boswell
Is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable
to be incapable of enduring blindness.
-John Milton
I saw that was a way to hell, even from the
gates of heaven.
-John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
Never make a defence of apology before you be
accused.
-Charles Ⅰ
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; know
it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his purpose to
resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves then
dies; the same.
-Edward Young
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do
not tell them so.
-Chesterfield
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no
pleasures.
-Samuel Johnson
This world is a comedy to those that think, a
tragedy to those that feel.
-Horace Walpole
It is better that ten guilty persons escape
than one innocent suffers.
-William Blackstone
If you have great talents, industry will
improve them;
If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their
deficiency.
-Joshua Reynolds
Never despair. But if you do, work on in
despair.
-Edmund Burke
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is
nothing, with tools he is all.
-Thomas Carlyle
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you
were having an adventure.
When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
- Thornton Wilder
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a
buzzard:
nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him.
- William Faulkner
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not
with their pleasures.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's
happiness.
- Aldous Huxley
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't
know because we don't want to know.
- Aldous Huxley
There is no security on this earth. There is
only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArther
Everytime a child says, "I don't believe
in fairies,"there is a little fairy somewhere that falls
down dead.
- James Matthew Barrie
If you have charm, you don't need to have
anything else;
and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.
- James Matthew Barrie
I'd rather lose in a cause that will one day
win than win in a cause that will someday lose.
- Woodrow wilson
Experience is the name everyone gives to his
mistakes.
- Oscar wild
Read, read, read. Read everything--trash,
classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies
master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it is good, you will find out. If it's not, throw
it out the window.
- William Faulkner
Do not buy what you want, but what you need;
what you do not need is deer at a farthing.
- Cato the Elder
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