1. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometimes in life you will have been all of these.
你得下定決心對幼小者體貼,對老年人憐憫,對奮鬥者同情,對軟弱和犯錯者容忍。你一生遲早都會扮演這些角色。
2. It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
建立名聲需二十載,然而五分鐘即毀滅。
3. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
購買不需要的東西的人,不久便會買不起他所需要的東西。
4. You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.想忘記一些事情時,才知道自己的記憶力有多強。
5. Those who gaze too much upon the past are running something of the same risk as the driver who keeps his eyes too much upon his rearview mirror and is inattentive to the road ahead.
太回顧過去的人,其所冒的危險有如汽車司機,只注意後照鏡,而不注意前面的路。
6. A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
真心維護自然環境的人知道這個世界不是祖先遺留給他的,而是向子孫借用的。
7. Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. 最不擅用時間的人,最先抱怨時間短促。
8. The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it’s chiseled in bronze. 侮辱人者把話寫在沙上,受辱者把話看做銅刻。
9. I had no shoes and complained until I met a man who had no feet.
我經常抱怨沒鞋穿,直到我遇到一個人,他連雙腳也沒有。
10. Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.有些人見到火光便知改道,有些人卻得感到燙熱(才知改道)。
(先知先覺的人見到火光便知改道,後知後覺的人感到燙熱才知改道,不知不覺的人怎麼死的都不知道)
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