Unit 01 知足篇—知足者常乐

一定要知道的经典名句

1. 要使人人满意，结果人人都不满意。

Please all, and you will please none.

出自The man, the boy and the donkey《男人、男孩与驴子》

2. 说说空话，是最容易不过的事了。

It is easy to propose impossible remedies.

出自Belling the cat《老鼠开会》

3. 知足常乐吧，人不可能在每件事上都是最出色的。

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

出自The peacock and juno《孔雀和天后赫拉》

伊索还有这样说

•抓在手中的东西虽小，也胜过美妙的幻想。

A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect.

•记住：切莫为追逐幻影而丢失已有的东西。

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

•宁可安安心心地吃蚕豆和咸肉，也不愿胆战心惊地享用糕饼和麦芽酒。Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

•卑微的安全胜过炫耀的危险。

Better humble security than gilded danger.

•挨饿而拥有自由，胜过饱食终日的奴隶。

Better starve free than be a fat slave.

•一种安全的方法胜过一百种靠不住的法子。

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

•平庸无名，常能保住身家性命。

Obscurity often brings safety.

•积少才能成多。

Little by little does the trick.

•攻击无知觉的东西是徒劳的。

It is useless attacking the insensible.

•未雨绸缪，才能防患于未然。

It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.

•不懈的爬，也能赢得赛跑。

Plodding wins the race.

其他名人也这么说

•达利(Dali)

不要为十全十美担心—你永远做不到十全十美。

Have no fear of perfection -- you’ll never reach it.

•艾迪生(Joseph Addison)

知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

•乔治•桑(George Sand)

幸福在于自知拥有幸福。

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

•林肯(Abraham Lincoln)

对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. •杰罗尔德(Jerrold)

幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边，而不能从别人的花园中采得。Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ garden.

•波洛克(Pollock)

幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

•波普(Alexander Pope)

无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

•里普利厄(Repplier)

要在自身找到幸福是不容易的，要在别的地方找到幸福则是不可能的。It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible

to find it elsewhere.

•伍德贝利(Woodberry)

如果感觉到自己在生活中有了一个位置，满足的问题就解决了一半。To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of

content.

•亨利•沃德•比切尔(Henry Ward Beecher)

幸福的艺术就在于从平常之事中提取快乐的能力。

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness

from common things.

作文画龙点睛抄这句

当写到和“知足常乐”有关的作文时，就可以这样抄！

... Do not take life for granted my friends. Cherish what

you have. The grass is not greener on the other side.

Take a moment, think a moment, share the moment with

your beloved ones. As Aesop says in《the dog and the

shadow》, "Beware lest you lose the substance by

grasping at the shadow."...

……朋友们，不要把生活的一切当作理所当然，珍惜你

当下所拥有的。不用去跟别人比较，这山望着那山高。花

点时间，想一会儿，跟你所爱的人一起分享那个美好时

刻。就如同伊索在《狗和影子》中告诫过的：“记住，切

莫追逐幻影而丢失已有的东西。”……