自大与谦恭Egotism/Humility[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 06:18:48

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People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego1}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba

 

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

 

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
-- Margaret Halsey

 

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson

 

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper

 

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

 

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
-- Olin Miller2

 

I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President

 

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
-- Colin Powell

 

When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde

 

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown3 is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell

 

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer

 

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly4 taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters

 


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1 ego 7jtzw     
n.自我，自己，自尊
参考例句：
  • He is absolute ego in all thing.在所有的事情上他都绝对自我。
  • She has been on an ego trip since she sang on television.她上电视台唱过歌之后就一直自吹自擂。
2 miller ZD6xf     
n.磨坊主
参考例句：
  • Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
  • The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
3 breakdown cS0yx     
n.垮，衰竭；损坏，故障，倒塌
参考例句：
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
4 humbly humbly     
adv. 恭顺地，谦卑地
参考例句：
  • We humbly beg Your Majesty to show mercy. 我们恳请陛下发发慈悲。
  • "You must be right, Sir,'said John humbly. “你一定是对的，先生，”约翰恭顺地说道。

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