Be it ever so humble , there is no place like home.

金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。

－John Howard Payne（美国剧作家、演员 佩恩）

2005-11-18

As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.

水果成熟不仅需要阳光，也需要寒夜和冰冷的雨水。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和磨难。

－Hugh Black（美国作家布莱克）

2005-11-17

A small leak will sink a great ship.

小漏沉大船。

－T. Fuller（英国作家 富勒）

2005-11-16

Practice makes perfect.

熟能生巧。

－G. Crabbe（英国诗人 克雷布）

2005-11-15

The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.

风景属于看风景的人。

－Ralph Waldo Emerson（美国思想家 爱默生）

2005-11-14

Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have.

吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。

－Aesop（古希腊寓言作家 伊索）

2005-11-11

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

对于过去不幸的记忆，构成了新的不幸。

－Miguel de Cervantes（西班牙作家 塞万提斯）

2005-11-10

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.

灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。

－James Russell Lowell（美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔）

2005-11-09

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

苦尽甘来。

－William Shakspeare（英国剧作家 莎士比亚）

2005-11-08

If you wish to succeed,you should use persistence as your good friend,experience as your reference,prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。

－Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）

2005-11-07

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.

画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。

－Simonides（古希腊作家 西蒙尼特斯）

2005-10-30

Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

明智者四海为家--地球是他的壁炉，蓝天是他的客厅。

－R.W.Emerson（美国思想家 爱默生）

2005-10-28