英语名言警句合集

1. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and

run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

2. I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.

3. If you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman,

you educate a family.

4. Learning to learn is to know how to navigate（导航）in a forest of facts,

ideas and theories, a proliferation（扩散）of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation（创新）and research.

5. No one can become really educated without having pursued some stud y in

which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude（天资）.

6. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

7. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make

yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be do ne, whether you like it or not.; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

8. Good teaching is 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theatre.

9. One father is better than 100 schoolmasters.

10. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been

forgotten.

11. Y ou can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

12. As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The

trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

13. There isn’t a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her

husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications（规格）of her own.

14. Every story has three sides to it-yours, mine and the facts.

15. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

16. The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

17. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until

opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation（解放）will be a proclamation（宣布）, but not a fact.

18. I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one

‘race’-the human race, and that we are all members of it.

19. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so

long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened.

20. Many persons have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It

is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity（忠诚）to a worthy purpose.

21. If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

22. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes

longer.

23. One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate

anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values- whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth.

24. One murder makes a villain（罪犯）, millions a hero.

25. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know

ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

26. T alents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy

billows of the world.

27. I’d rather be strong wrong than weakly right.

28. Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has,

and that which he thinks he has.

29. Character is like a tree, reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we

think of it; the tree is the real thing.

30. Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as

someone else.

31. The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.

32. Y ou can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

33. I cultivate my garden and my garden cultivates me.

34. Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.

35. Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

36. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

37. One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it

provides.

38. Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a

harvest.

39. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns and rejoice because

thorn bushes have roses.

40. It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. Y ou have got to

love your garden whether you like it or not.

41. Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important

than the outcome.

42. Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to

cherish each moment because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

43. T o get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time,

but we must keep on stepping.

44. Life to me is a journey-you never know what may be your next destination.

45. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

46. T o get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away

from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

47. All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

48. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember

more than I have seen.

49. The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

50. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great

affair is to move.

51. Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an

activity but in doing it.

52. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments-there are

consequences.

53. Men argue; nature acts.

54. Like a gardener, I believe that what goes down must come up.

55. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

56. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

57. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

58. Nature thrives on patience, man on impatience.

59. Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Forests decay,

harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

60. We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

61. The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks

nothing and leaves it free.

62. Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle-class is its future.

63. People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and

takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

That is an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what is going to happen.

64. Y ou can never plan the future by the past.

65. As long as I have a want, I have a reason to live. Satisfaction is death.

66. For death begins with life’s first breath. And life begins at touch of death.

67. A man’s dying is more the survivo r’ affair than his own.

68. Don’t do things not to die; do things to enjoy living. The by-product may not

be dying.

69. Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

70. If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you

need tomorrow for?

71. The great pleasure in life is doing the things people say we cannot do.

72. Good things, when short, are twice as good.

73. If a house be divided against itself; that house cannot stand.

74. There never was a good war or a bad peace.

75. T oday the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to

prevent it.

76. There is no such thing as inevitable in war, but only deserve it.

77. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is

all hell.

78. In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.

79. War does not determine who is right-only who is left.

80. So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community,

and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

81. Sweetness is war to those who have never experienced it.

82. Calamity is the test of integrity.

83. Calamity is man’s true touchstone.

84. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

85. We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

86. There’s no disaster that cannot become a blessing, and no blessing that

become a disaster.

87. Y ou should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a

triviality as if it were a disaster.

88. T o hate alone is the road to disaster. T o love is the road to strength. T o love

in spite of all is the secret of greatness.

89. No man is demolished but by himself.

90. What does not destroy me makes me strong.