经典英文句子

1．What you have is God’s gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God. 2．There are good ships, and there bad ships, but the best ships are friendships.3．He who gives to me teaches me to give.4．To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your hearts .5．Home is where you hang your heart.6． A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part.7．As long as you live, keep learning how to live.8．You will never make your dreams come true by oversleeping .9．Don’t be unhappy if your dreams never come true--- just be thankful your nightmares don’t. 10． A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dream. 11．Excellence is to do a common thing in a uncommon way.12. Yesterday is gone; forget it ! Tomorrow never comes; don’t wait for it. Today is here; use it!13. To stay youthful, stay useful.14. In youth, the days are short and the days are long; in old age , the years are short and the days are long.15. Love is blind, and marriage is an eye-opener.16. He who kills time buries opportunity.17. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.18. Pessimists think the sun sets in the morning.19. A pessimist says the lily belongs to the lily family; an optimist declares that the onion belongs to the lily family.20. It ’s not how old you grow but how you grow old.21. The worst pest in the world is a pessimist; he sees only the mist.22. Optimist is the ability to smile at misfortune when fortune doesn’t smile at you.23. When you’re thirsty, it’s too late to think about digging a well.24. Keep your ideas high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.25. When a man is wrapped up in himself; he makes a pretty small package.26. It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.27. He who wakes up and finds himself successful has not been asleep.28. The farther of success is work; the mother of achievement is ambition.29. A lot of people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges .30. If you don’t believe in cooperation, look what happens when a car loses one of its wheels.31. When a man loses his temper, his reason goes on vacation.32. One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hand busy.33. We may not always see eye to eye, but we should walk hand in hand.34. When I go to bed, I leave my troubles in my clothes.35. I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.36. Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are r .37. A fool tells what he will do; A boaster tells what has done; A wise man does it and says nothing.38. Many a bee has been drowned in his own honey.39. A man has three names; the name he inherits, the name hisparents give him, and the name he makes for himself.40. You must speak up to be heard, but sometimes you have to shut up to be appreciated.41. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.42. Smile---it’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.43. A smile is the lighting system of the face and the heating system of the heart.44. You’re never fully dressed without a smile.45. All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.46. There are no language barriers when you’re smiling.47. Life itself becomes a classroom, and the curriculum is patience.48. You can be a miracle worker.49. Do not speak of your life only in the future.50. Minds are like parachutes, it they are closed, they won’t hold you up.51. Why is it that whenever a piano needs to be moved, everybody volunteers to carry the stool?52. Nature versus science: Nature breeds better mice since builds better mouse traps.53. It’s not what they take away from you that counts; it’s what you choose to do with what you have left.54. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.55. Success is never final; failure is seldom fatal.56. God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn’t throw it into the nest.57. To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things everyday.58. Don’t try to hire extraordinary people; Get ordinary people to do extraordinary work.59. My eyesight may be fading, but my vision has never been better.60. Memories are good or bad: which ones are you making?61. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.62. We don’t remember days. We remember moments.63. I have never met an enthusiastic failure.64. The best things in life aren’t things.65. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when quits.66. We often discover what will do by finding out what will no do.67. True education is training of both the head and the heart.68. We are born with five senses---- touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing. But successful people have a sixth sense-common sense.Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to make a life.69. When people don’t know how to recognize opportunities, they complainAbout the noise when it knocks.71. Just like your bodies need good food everyday, our minds need good thought every day.72. Winners are a part of the team. Losers are apart from the team.73. Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.74. Winners choose what they say; Losers say what they choose.75. Winners use hard arguments but soft words; Losers people don’t do great things. They only do small things in a soft way.76. Successful people don’t do different things. They only do things in a great way.77. Successful people don’t do different things. They only do things differently.78. Our minds, like muscles, stretch or shrink, depending on how much or how little we exercise them.79. Most people go to their graves with music still in them.80. One reason that I don’t drink is that I want to know when I can having a good time.81. A rose smells better than a cabbage, but you can’t eat roses.82. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.83. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.84. The fly must be break before the bird history.85. Historians may give life---but not as a finished product.87. Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.88. Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.89. You’ll never get rid of a bad temper by losing it.90. Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.91. The tongue is boneless, but it breaks bones.92. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.93. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.94. The only golden that women dislike is silence.95. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from human face.96. We live in this world when we love it.97. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is not young .98.”After you”, as the glass of water said to the pill.99. If you try to kill time, it will eventually kill you.100. Laughter is a brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the hearts.101. Don’t try so hard about your hard luck that you cannot hear opportunity knocking.102. Having passion toward something makes the unimaginable imaginable .103. If you live in the rivers, make friends with the crocodiles.104. Do the right thing at the right time.105. Take advantage of an advantage.106. Our greatest songs are still unsung.107. do not quit trying during trying times.108. I saw the angle in the marble and carved until I set him free.109. Government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth. 110. Where there is a marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.111. By all means marry if you get a good wife, you will because very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.112. The proof of good is fire; the proof of woman is pockets; the proof of man is woman.113. Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?114. When “if “and “when” are planted, ”nothing ” grows.115. Life is a coin you can only spend once.116. There is no elevator to success, only stairs .117. Better to feel pity than be pitied.118. If you give more, then you have more to give.119. Inspired people inspire people.120. Snowflakes are some of nature’s most fragile things ----but look what they can do when they stick together.121. Learning has a snowball effect.122. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by friends.123. Long faces make short lives.124. Don’t let them push your buttons.125. The brook would lose its songs if you removed the rocks.126. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.127. The door to success is labeled “push“.128. Life is like a bicycle: you do not fall off unless you stop peddling.129. Pass on more than our gens to our children.130. Use, do not abuse.131. The best kind of peace is peace of mind.132. Don’t kill a fly with a hatchet.133. Every person must climb out if his own hole.134. In stead of thinking about doing something, do something.135. Bloom where you are planted.136. Learning is like eating food. It is not how much you eat that matters. What counts is how much you digest.137. Life is like a cafeteria. You take your tray, select your food and pay at the end. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.138. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, a weak desire can not produce great result. 139. The harder a person works, the better he feels; and the better he feels, the harder he works. 140. A horse that pulls can not kick. A horse that kicks can not pull.141. It is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years！142. The more one sleeps the less one lives.143. Many lose when they win, and others win when they lose.(Germany)144. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is now.145. Talkers are no good doers.146. Seconds are the gold dust of time.(USA)147. When you eat a round cake, do you begin at the centre?(Nigeria)What is done cannot be undone.(England)148. Peace makes money and money makes war.(France)At birth we cry------at death we see why.(Bulgaria)149. “If I rest, I rust” says the key. (Germany)150. Ideas start with “I”.151.It is easy to drive a frog into the water.(Serbia)152.Good words make us laugh; good deals make us silent. (France)153. A dog with money is addressed “Mr Dog”. (USA)154.God is never going to come down from a cloud and say, “You now have permission to be successful!”155.Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.156.Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.157.Insomniacs don’t sleep because the worry about it, and they worry about it before they don’t sleep. 158.Turn our lemons into lemonade.159.Turn our minus into a plus.160. A parrot talks much but flies little.161.If we want more roses, we must plant more trees!162. A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.163.The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.164.Being happy requires looking fro good things. One person sees the beautiful view and the others sees the dirty window.165.It is not where you start that counts, but where you choose to finish.166. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.167. God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.168. You know you are getting old when the candles cost than the cake.169. After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.170. Time and tide wait fro no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.171.. Age doesn’t matter, unless you’re a cheese.7. An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.8. The “good old times”: all times, when old, are old.9. I am as old as my tongue and other than my teeth.10. An old young man will be a young old man.11. In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.12. Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.13. We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.14. I love everything that’s old------old friends, old times, old manners, old looks, old wine.15. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.16. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.17. You are only young once, but you can be immature all your life.18. There’s nothing worse than being an aging young person.19. Most people say that you get old, you have to give things up. I think you get old because you give things up.20. The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.21. If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you are old.22. We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.23. There are years that ask questions and years that answer.1. Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.2. Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.3. Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.4. Folks who never do any more than they are paid for never get paid for more than they do.5. A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.6. The love we give away is the only love we keep.7. You have two hands. One to help yourself; the second to help others.8. The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing.9. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.10. Keep yourself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. I failed my way to success.11. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.12. Education is the movement from darkness to light.13. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.14. Seeing is believing------but don’t believe all you see.15. Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.16. Wisdom in the mind is better than the money in the hand.17. It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.18. Under adverse circumstances, some people break records and others break down.19. Most of us just exist and keep counting our days rather than making our days count.20. How a person master his fate is more important than what his fate is.21. Make your life a mission, not an intermission.22. You will never have what you like until you learn to like what you have.23. The chains of a habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.24. I’m not happy when I’m writing. But I’m more unhappy when I’m not.25. Laugh to forget, but don’t forget to laugh.26. The time is always right to do what is right.27. You can not always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.28. I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.29. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.30. The three immutable facts: You own stuff, you will die. Some will get that stuff.31. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.32. You don’t get choose how you are going to die. Or when, you can only decide how you’re going to live, now.33. Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.34. The best age is the age you are.35. Failures are divided into classes------those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.36. Grammar must be learned through language, and not language through grammar.37. Nothing is too small to know. Nothing is too big to attempt.38. Be learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.39. I’d much rather be a learner in the winner’s circle than a ruler in the loser’s circle.40. When opportunity knocks open the door even if you’re in your bathrobe.41. It is better to wear out than to rust out.42. It is not what happens to me that matters but what happens in me.43. We are all swimmers in the ocean of dream.44. Don’t go through life. Grow through life.45. Turn scars into stars. Turn zeros into heroes.46. Turn victims into victors. Turn problems into possibilities.47. You have to be unkind to be kind; Not all medicine is sweet, not all surgery is painless, but we have to take it.48. Life is an echo we get back what we give.49. Most people say that you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.50. The difference between success and failure is the difference between doing exactly right and almost right.51. to find something you can enjoy is far better than to find something you can possess.52. Sympathy is,” I understand how you feel.” Empathy is ,” I feel how you feel.”53. Doubt your doubts, not your beliefs.54. Anger is just one letter short of danger.55. Small children give you headache, big children, heartache.56. God provides the nuts, but he does not crack them.57. Some people who think they are dreamers are just sleepers.58. Patrick Henry shouted, “Give me liberty or give me death!” The now generation shoots “Give me.”59.Promises are like crying bubies in church -------they should be carried out immediately.60. There is no such thing as free lunch.61. When your “there” has become a “here”, you’ll simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here”.62. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between.63. The Chinese is always described as a person who does things because they have been done before. The American is always described as a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.64. don’t count the days------make the days count. Don’t limit your challenges-------challenge your limits.65. If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?66. We all want to have the balls we throw received. We all want to have people listen to what we are saying.67. Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.68. You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.69. Learn to say “NO” to the good. So you can “Yes” to the beat.70. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.71. A hammer shatters glass but forges steel. Are you made of glass or steel?72. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.73. A great violinist once said:“If I don’t practise for a month, the audience can tell the difference.If I don’t practise for a week, my wife can tell the difference.If I don’t practise for a day, I can tell the difference.”74. Do what’s right,Do it right.Do it right now.75. Do what you know best;If you are a runner, run.If you’re a bell, ring.76. Some people are chronic complainers. If it is hot, it’s too hot. If it is cold, it’stoo cold.77. Winners say:” It may be difficult but it is possible.”Losers say:” It may be possible but it is too difficult.”When a winner makes a mistake, he says:” I was wrong.”When a loser makes a mistake, he says:” It wasn’t my fault.”80. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a game, play.Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a sacrifice, offer it.Life is a love, enjoy.。