英语人生格言

　　Joseph Addison. American wreter美国作家艾迪生.J.Acontented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.知足是在世最大的幸事。

　　英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on erath.G.Bernard Shaw.British dramatist 终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。

　　英国历史学爱、散文家卡莱尔.T.A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.Thomas Carlyle, British historian and essayist 写得很好的生活和过得很好的生活几乎一样少。英国诗人考伯.W.Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress.William Cowper, British poet 无所事事不是休息，十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。

　　美国社会学家萨姆纳.W.G.All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.Willian Graham Sumner, American sociologist 我们得到的一切幸福都是劳动、辛苦、自我克制和学习的成果。英国诗人蒲伯.A.Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed.Alexander Pope. British Poet 一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。

　　古雅典政治家梭伦Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.Solon, ancient Athenian statesman 人不进棺材，谁也称不上幸福，而至多不过是幸运。古罗马政治家伯修斯.A.M.S.For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.A.M S. Boethius, Ancient Roman statesman 在所有不幸中，最不幸的事是曾经幸福过。

　　英国剧作家杰罗尔德.D.W.Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers" garden.D.W.Jerrold, British dramatist 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。美国作家霍桑.N.Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.N. Hawthorn, American writer 幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。

　　英国作家杰克逊.H.Happiness is a form of courage.H.Jackson, British writer 幸福是勇气的一种形式。美国精神病学家托马斯. S.Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead , now usually attributed by adults to children, and by childuren to adults.Szasz Thomas, American psychiatrist 幸福是想象中的东西。从前，生者认为死者幸福，则认为大人幸福。

　　英国法学家波洛克.C.Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.C.Pollock ,British jutist 幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。美国总统罗斯福的夫人埃莉诺Happiness is not a goal, it is a by--product.Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, American president"s wife 幸福不是目的，而是一种副产品。

　　美国钢琴家利万特Happiness is not something you experience; it"s something you re-member.O.Levant, Ameican pianist 幸福不是你经历的事，而是你记得的事。

　　英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.G.Bernard. Shaw, British dramatist 醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。

　　法国女作家乔治·桑Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.George Sand, French woman writer 幸福在于自知拥有幸福。

　　美国总统罗斯福. F.Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Frandlin Roosevelt, American President. 幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。英国作家约翰逊.S.Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson. British writer. 希望本身是一种幸福，也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福。

　　美国总统富兰克林.B.Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.Benjamin Franklin, American president 与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。美国博物学家雷伊.JIndustry is fortune"s right hand, and frugality her left.John Ray, Averican naturalist 勤劳是的右手，节俭是她的左手。

　　美国女散文家里普利厄.A.It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.A. Repplier, American fimale essayist 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。美国作家塞尔斯.L.R.Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment.Leonard R. Sayles, American writer 和工作在使人得到幸福与方面所起的作用比我们大多数意识到的要多得多。

　　美国作家棱罗.H.D.Man is the artificer of his own happiness.Henry David Thoreau, American writer 人是自己幸福的设计者。美国总统林肯.A.Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Limcoln . American ruesident 对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。

　　英国经济学家亚当·斯密No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith , British economist 如果一个社会中的大部分成员贫穷而又悲惨，这个社会就谈不上繁荣幸福。法国作家安德烈.G.Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.Gide Andre, French writer 没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。

　　法国作家拉罗什富科.F.One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.Francois La Rochefoucauld, Frcnch writer 一个人永远不像他所想象的那样不幸，也不会像他所希望的那样幸福。古希腊剧作家埃斯库罗斯Only when a man"s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pro-nounce him happy.Aeschylus.Ancient Greek dramatist 只能当一个人的在辉煌中结束时，我们才敢说他是幸福的。

　　美国作家洛根.P.S.There ae two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the sceond.P. Smith Logan, American writer 人的一生有两大：第一，得到你想要的东西；第二，享有你得到的东西。只有最聪明的人才能实现第二。英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.Gerge Bernard Shaw. British dramatist 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。