生命Life[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-14 07:12:15

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Despite the high cost of living it remains1 a popular item.
-- Anonymous2

 

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous

 

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon

 

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings

 

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz

 

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown

 

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill

 

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo3 in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior4 and orator5, 1890

 

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate6 reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement7.
-- Ernest Dimnet

 

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein

 

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

 

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi

 

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene

 

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard

 

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

 

Life isn't a matter of milestones8, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy

 

Life can only be understood backwards9, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

 

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence

 

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation10 and regain11 the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb12 at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
-- Denis Leary

 

Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone

 

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses

 

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager

 

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins

 

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

 

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler

 

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration13 and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery14, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy15 and baseness.
-- Leon Trotsky, Diary In Exile, Entry for April 3, 1935

 

Being on the tightrope16 is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda

 

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde

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1 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
3 buffalo 1Sby4     
n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛
参考例句：
  • Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
  • The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
4 warrior YgPww     
n.勇士，武士，斗士
参考例句：
  • The young man is a bold warrior.这个年轻人是个很英勇的武士。
  • A true warrior values glory and honor above life.一个真正的勇士珍视荣誉胜过生命。
5 orator hJwxv     
n.演说者，演讲者，雄辩家
参考例句：
  • He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.他能言善辩，胜过最好的演说家。
  • The orator gestured vigorously while speaking.这位演讲者讲话时用力地做手势。
6 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的
参考例句：
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
7 chastisement chastisement     
n.惩罚
参考例句：
  • You cannot but know that we live in a period of chastisement and ruin. 你们必须认识到我们生活在一个灾难深重、面临毁灭的时代。 来自辞典例句
  • I think the chastisement to him is too critical. 我认为对他的惩罚太严厉了。 来自互联网
8 milestones 9b680059d7f7ea92ea578a9ceeb0f0db     
n.重要事件( milestone的名词复数 )；重要阶段；转折点；里程碑
参考例句：
  • Several important milestones in foreign policy have been passed by this Congress and they can be chalked up as major accomplishments. 这次代表大会通过了对外政策中几起划时代的事件，并且它们可作为主要成就记录下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dale: I really envy your milestones over the last few years, Don. 我真的很羡慕你在过去几年中所建立的丰功伟绩。 来自互联网
9 backwards BP9ya     
adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地
参考例句：
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
10 rehabilitation 8Vcxv     
n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位
参考例句：
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
11 regain YkYzPd     
vt.重新获得，收复，恢复
参考例句：
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
12 curb LmRyy     
n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制
参考例句：
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
13 frustration 4hTxj     
n.挫折，失败，失效，落空
参考例句：
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
14 misery G10yi     
n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦
参考例句：
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
15 perfidy WMvxa     
n.背信弃义，不忠贞
参考例句：
  • As devotion unites lovers,so perfidy estranges friends.忠诚是爱情的桥梁，欺诈是友谊的敌人。
  • The knowledge of Hurstwood's perfidy wounded her like a knife.赫斯渥欺骗她的消息像一把刀捅到了她的心里。
16 tightrope xgkzEG     
n.绷紧的绳索或钢丝
参考例句：
  • The audience held their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.杂技演员走钢丝时，观众都屏住了呼吸。
  • The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.走钢丝的演员举着一把伞，保持身体的均衡。

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