1. 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. ~Mark Twain
保持健康的唯一方法是:吃你不想吃的,喝你不愛喝的和做你不願意做的。
2. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. ~Margaret Thatcher
檢視你過得極為滿意的一天。那不會是你遊手好閒無所事事的一天,而是有許多事要做,而你又全部做完的一天。
3. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Franklin
擅常找藉口的人很少擅長其他的事。
4. Dost thou love life? Then waste no time; for time is the stuff that life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin
你愛生命嗎?那麼別浪費時間,因為生命是時間所組成的。
5. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~J.F. Kennedy
人類若不結束戰爭,戰爭就會毀滅人類。
6. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ~J.F. Kennedy
不要問國家能為你做什麼,而要問你能為國家做什麼。
7. Every great mistake has a half-way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ~Pearl S. Buck
任何大錯鑄成前,總有一個稍縱即逝的時機,讓人可以挽回或補救。(任何大錯鑄成前,總有一個稍縱即逝的時機,讓人可以扭轉情勢,或者迷途知返。)
8. A well-educated man should know something of everything and everything of something. ~Henry Ford
一個受過良好教育的人,應該萬事通一點,且對某一事精通。
9. It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. ~ Florence Nightingale
壓垮駱駝的最後一根稻草。
10. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.~ The Great Gatsby
當你想批評別人的時候,可要記得,世界上的人,並不是個個都像你如此地得天獨厚,佔了這麼多便宜。