标题: Quotes of the Day [打印本页]
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-7-21 13:04 标题: Quotes of the Day
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
- Robert Bloch
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-7-23 10:13
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-7-25 21:01
"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable." - Woody allen
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-7-28 22:11
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-1 21:10
"Life is one of the most important causes of death. "
Kocher, Gerhard
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-1 21:10
"Life is a loss of time. "
Kocher, Gerhard
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-2 07:49
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-7 11:44
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-7 19:17
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-7 19:18
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
- Agassiz, Louis
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-8 12:55
I like this one, but I like to make money as well 
Originally posted by
晨思 at 2007-8-7 19:18:
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
- Agassiz, Louis
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-8 12:57
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-9 11:00
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-9 22:14
智慧的代价是矛盾。这是人生对人生观开的玩笑。
- 出处不详
我喜欢短短的奇思妙语, 一句话顶千言.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-10 09:28
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-12 08:50
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-12 12:32
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-12 12:35
To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
-Schopenhauer, Arthur
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-14 09:34
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
- Jimmy Buffett
I don't get this one 
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-16 19:54
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This is a good one ;)
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-17 13:02
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
作者: weili 时间: 2007-8-17 13:07
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
-Shakespeare
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-18 11:17
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-19 16:27
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-20 13:51
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner
作者: tukeli 时间: 2007-8-20 14:44
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
- Jimmy Buffett
I don't get this one
It means I don't call but I am thinking of you all the time, just like me missing many of my friends.
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-8-20 22:20
It's never too late to have a happy childhood: Walk in the rain, collect rainbows, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sand castles, watch the moon & stars come out, say hello to everyone, make up new rules, go on adventures, act silly, take bubble baths, hold hands & hug & kiss, dance, laugh & cry for the health of it, feel happy, say the magic words, trust the universe.
-Bruce Williamson
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-21 07:43
I see. I will give it to my two daughters in the future.
Thanks!
Originally posted by tukeli at 2007-8-20 14:44:
It means I don't call but I am thinking of you all the time, just like me missing many of my friends.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-23 09:57
Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin
What does this mean
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-25 23:57
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-26 15:27
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-27 11:05
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
- Darby Conley
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-28 10:54
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-30 11:04
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-8-31 13:45
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Anatole France
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-9-7 16:33
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-9-12 17:46
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-9-17 08:53
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-9-20 14:29
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-9-27 08:15
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
- Willis Player
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-10-1 09:01
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-10-8 12:19
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
- Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-10-11 09:31
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- Ferdinand Foch
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-10-16 14:25
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-10-30 14:53
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
- Bill Nye
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-14 18:07
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-16 11:04
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett
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It's a very good one. Do you get it? ;)
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-18 10:23
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-11-18 16:31
There will come a time when you believe everything is
finished. That will be the beginning.
~Louis L'Amour
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-11-18 16:32
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the
dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
~ Samuel Rutherford
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-21 11:34
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
作者: 晨思 时间: 2007-11-21 19:02
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
~William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-23 10:18
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-11-25 19:12
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
- Allan Goldfein
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-12-5 11:54
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
- James Thorpe
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-12-11 14:53
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2007-12-19 12:30
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-2 17:02
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-1-3 12:09
Having the true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
– Steve Prefontaine
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-1-3 12:11
When you reach for the stars, you won’t quite get one, but you won’t come with handful of mud either. 
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-1-3 12:13
Few of us know what we are capable of doing, we have never push ourselves hard enough.
- Alfred montapert
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-8 17:38
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
- Zach Braff
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-12 09:51
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-26 22:19
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
- Suzanne Necker
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-28 11:27
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-1-31 12:08
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
- Mike Myers
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-2-2 12:40
To be here is so much。
- Rainer Maria Rilke
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-2-2 12:44
The human person is a threshold where many infinities meet. There is the infinity of space that reaches out into the depths of the cosmos and the infinity of time reaching back over billions of years.
- JOHN O’DONOHUE
John is a wonderful writer i discovered recently, an Irish poet and scholar, Unforunately, died last month at 53 years.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-6 17:03
Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching.
- Scott Adams
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-9 10:09
I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-12 13:36
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
- Michael Crichton
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-20 12:49
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-22 13:57
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-24 10:16
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-25 16:13
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard
作者: 青冈 时间: 2008-2-26 04:20
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
how to translate this sentence?
thesunlover,pls.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-26 10:25
Help, help, 晨思!
作者: 青冈 时间: 2008-2-27 04:32
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-2-27 13:04
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
一篇好散文有这样的特质；它营造的氛围像帷帐一般把我们围在里面，而不是外面。
～最近工作太忙，没时间文学了。。。
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-2-27 13:04
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
- Rilke
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-2-27 13:08
"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving"
Vincent van Gogh
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-2-27 14:02
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-1 09:57
Thanks alot for your help, 晨思! Nice job as always.
Originally posted by 晨思 at 2008-2-27 13:04:
一篇好散文有这样的特质；..
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-1 09:58
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-8 22:16
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-10 12:02
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- GK Chesterton
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-11 13:36
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-11 13:37
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-11 13:38
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-11 13:40
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-12 13:51
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- CS Lewis
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-14 22:56
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-15 17:59
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-18 12:14
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-20 07:55
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-20 13:58
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-21 13:37
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-21 13:38
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-21 13:44
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
-Erma Bombeck
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-25 08:12
It's impossible. At that time, I would be very happy if I used half of my talent God gives me.
Originally posted by 晨思 at 2008-3-21 13:44:
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
-Erma Bombeck
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-25 08:13
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-3-25 13:56
Originally posted by thesunlover at 2008-3-25 01:12 PM:
It's impossible. At that time, I would be very happy if I used half of my talent God gives me.
of course, it's impossible, it is a humorous quote.
Many bring their talent to their grave, if you use half of your talent, that's already too good to be true, if 10%, that's good enough, life has infinite possibilities.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-3-30 19:12
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
- Lee Iacocca
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-4-9 16:55
I'm a born-again atheist.
- Gore Vidal
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-4-10 16:46
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-4-12 17:11
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-4-25 22:32
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-4-28 18:32
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-4-28 19:10
Originally posted by thesunlover at 2008-4-26 03:32 AM:
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-5-4 14:37
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- EB White
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-6-1 16:51
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-6-3 13:11
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
- Evan Esar
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-6-16 12:10
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-6-24 11:32
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-6-26 11:01
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-11 15:54
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-13 16:27
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
- Donald Foster
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-14 12:53
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
- Bill Vaughan
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-17 15:24
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Robert Heinlein
Why?
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-18 11:11
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-7-25 12:52
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-9-24 08:01
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-9-24 14:03
Originally posted by thesunlover at 2008-9-24 01:01 PM:
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
I've heard of above phrase before, here is my version:
Life is never finished, it is only abandoned.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-9-26 14:19
How about:
Life is never abandoned, it is only finished.
Originally posted by
晨思 at 2008-9-24 14:03:
I've heard of above phrase before, here is my version:
Life is never finished, it is only abandoned.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-9-26 14:20
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-9-27 18:07
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-10-2 17:03
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
- Evan Esar
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-10-7 08:54
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-10-7 18:59
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-10-7 18:59
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-10-18 11:26
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2008-11-7 09:00
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw
作者: 晨思 时间: 2008-11-7 17:08
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
- Niels Bohr
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2009-2-8 13:55
A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2009-8-21 19:38
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2009-8-27 17:49
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Jascha Heifetz
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2009-9-20 22:04
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
- James Buchanan (1791-1868) 15th US President
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2010-4-24 19:26
I didn't really say everything I said.
- Yogi Berra
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2010-5-13 09:08
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) American lyricist and librettist
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2010-6-6 14:03
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler
作者: 廖康 时间: 2010-6-6 15:05
No matter how many eggs a fly lays, no silkworms will come out of them.
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2012-6-27 18:58
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
- Author unknown
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2020-4-8 09:02
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
作者: thesunlover 时间: 2023-1-12 15:14
God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal.
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