依利莎伯.布朗宁 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
死亡使一个伟人的声音沉寂之后，他生前平淡无奇的话，都成了至理名言。
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words be said turn oracles. - Case Guidi Windows.
华盛顿 George Washington
美洲人是否能作自由人或沦为奴隶，可否拥有自己的财产，他们的庐舍田园是否将被剥夺摧毁，他们会不会陷于万劫不复之境；决定这一切的日子现已来到眼前。在上帝的权威之下，万代子孙的命运，全靠这支军队的勇气与行动。残酷无情的敌人逼迫我们，使我们别无他途，只有奋起英勇抵抗，否则便只好去如投降；所以我们要抱定决心，不成功，便承认。
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and them-selves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choise of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to resolve to conquer or to die. - Address to American troops before the Battle of Long Island, 1776.
马克吐温 Mark Twain
我们为什么听到有人诞生就欢喜，看到有人出斌就悲伤呢？因为诞生和死亡都是别人。
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
习惯就是习惯；没有人可以把习惯扔出窗外，但可以从楼上把他一步步地哄下来。
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
每一个人的一生中，幸运女神都来敲过门，可是，许多人竟在邻室中听不见她。
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life," but in a good many cases, the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
人类是唯一会脸红的动物或视为一改脸红的动物。
Man is the Only Animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Pudd'nbead Wilson's Calendar.
苏格拉底 Socrates
如果我们把每个人的不幸堆成一堆由大家均分，大多数人都甘愿接受一份，欣然离去。
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. - Ad Appolonium de Consolatione, Plutarch.
毕加索 Pablo Picasso
绘画不是一行美术创作，而是一种乏术。机能调和我们与四周从们敌意环境的关系，又能把我们的恐惧与欲望化为形象表现出来，成为一种攫取权力的工具。
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires. - Life with Picasso, by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake.
呵，高尚的品味！多可怕的东西！品味是创造力的敌人！
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. - Quote, 1957.
萧伯纳 George Bernard Shaw
己之所欲，勿施于人。别人的喜恶可能不相同。
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their taste may not be the same. - The Revolutionist's Handbook
人生有两 悲剧。一是万念俱灰，另一是踌躇满志。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearth's desire. The other is to gain it. - Man and Superman
不要终想永远活下去，你不会成功的。
Do not try to live forover. You will not succeed. - The Doctor's Dilemma, Preface.
海伦凯勒 Helen Keller
让我这失明的人提醒你们有言人一句话-----献给愿意充份利用天赋视力的人一点小小忠告：你要好好运用你的眼睛去看，就好像你明天就要失明一样。利用其他感官也应如此：你应尽量听美妙的声音，鸟儿的歌唱，乐队奏出的雄壮音乐，就好像明天你就要变成聋子一样；尽情触摸每一样你想触摸的东西吧，就好像明天你就要失去触觉一样；你也应该充分享受花的芬芳和每一口食物的滋味，就好像从明天起，你再也嗅不出气味，尝不出味道了。
I who am blind can give one hint to those who see - one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the nusic of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. - Three Days to See.
林肯 Abraham Lincoln
自由与独立的基石是什么东西建成的？不是……我们的军舰上的大炮，也不是我们英勇军队的实力….我们所以依靠的时尚地方在我们胸膛里那种对自由的热爱。我们防卫力量来自全球人类天生的自由观念，摧毁这种观念，就等于在你的门前仲夏专制的种子。那么你不可不知奴役枷锁的滋味，你等于让自己的四肢准备戴上枷锁。
贝多芬
艺术！谁懂？关于伟大艺术女神的事，谁可与之商量？
成名的艺术家反为盛名所拘束，所以他们最早的作品往往是最好的。
伊莲娜–罗斯福
在任何情形下，最重要的，不是你能得到什么，而是你能贡献什么。在完全无灵的庙里膜拜对你不会有害处，反而能帮助你诚意正心，有时甚至给你一点实际上的好处。无论如何，施爱与人，本身就是一种教育工作。
罗拔.佛罗斯特
一首诗能否流传到后世，若认为只有假以时日，方可证明，那就真是荒唐可笑。一个懂诗的人，念到一首好诗，就知道自己的意识中，烙上了一个用不可磨灭的印象。这就是说，诗的永恒有如爱的永恒，一眼便可看出，不必等待时间证明。一首诗的价值不在于我们忘不了它，而是我们一看就知再也不能忘了它。
英女皇维多利亚
既然天将大任于我，我将竭尽我所能，尽我的职责….我虽年轻…又缺乏经验，但对于行仁政，做善事，很少人有我这么强烈的愿望。
富兰克林
不惜牺牲自由以图苟安的人，即不配享受自由，也不配获得安全。
结婚之前要睁大眼睛，结婚之后要半睁半闭。
容忍一种罪行所付的代价，足够抚养两个孩子成材。
爱因斯坦
单是学会了实用科学，郑家人类的福社，还是不够。关心全人类和人类将来的命运，因该是一切技术发展的主要目标…这样才能使我们创作出来的东西，能够造福而不至于贻祸人类。你们再搞图表和方程式的时候，切不要把这一点忘记。
你喝一位可爱的女郎坐在一起，两小时就像一分钟；你坐在炽热的火炉上，一分钟就像两小时。这就是相对论。
邱吉尔
人生是一种试验，而这个世界就是试验所。每一代都要面对一些问题-----可能是相同的问题-----只不过问题的形式不同罢了！
我已准备好去会见我的创造主了，至于我的创造主是否也准备不 惮劳烦来见我，那是另一个问题了。
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