马克吐温的名言英文版

马克吐温的名言英文版
1. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
2. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
3. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
4. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
5. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
6. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
7. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
8. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
9. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
10. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
11. The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
12. Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
13. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
14. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
15. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
16. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
17. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
18. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
19. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
20. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
21. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
22. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
23. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
24. The lack of money is the root of all evil.
25. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
26. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
27. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
28. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
29. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
30. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
31. When in doubt, tell the truth.
32. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
33. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
34. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
35. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
36. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
37. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
38. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
39. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
40. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
41. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
42. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
43. There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
44. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
45. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
46. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
47. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
48. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
49. Out of the public schools grows the greatness of a nation.
50. Repartee is something we think of 24 hours too late.
51. Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
52. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
53. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.。