关于经济学economics的名言

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

经济学家是这样的人，他用难懂的专业词汇讲大家都懂的道理。

 Alfred A. Knopf（1892-1984）美国出版商

 

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

 George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) 爱尔兰剧作家

 

 

 

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

 经济学是一个对经济学家来讲极其有用的职业名称。

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) 美国经济学家

 

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

 经济学家是一个到明天就会知道为什么他昨天的预言没有在今天发生的专家。

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1990) 加拿大教育家

 

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a larough-edged ncet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

 经济学家是一个外科医生，拿着快的解剖刀和钝的手术刀，很漂亮的解剖死者和折磨生者。

 Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)

 

 

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

 在有记载的历史上还没有一个经济学家担心过下一顿饭从何而来。

Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) 奥地利管理学家

 

 

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

政府对经济的态度可以归结为三个阶段：它动弹的时候就收税。它继续动，那就管制。如果它不动了，那就扶植它。

Ronald Reagan ( 1911-2004)美国前总统

 

 

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

经济学的第一堂课就讲不足：没有任何东西可以满足所有需要它们的人。而政治学的第一堂课就是无视经济学第一堂课讲的内容。

 Thomas Sowell (1930- )  美国经济学家 

 

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

真正的个人自由不可能存在于没有经济安全和独立的情况下。饥饿和失业的人们是制造独裁者的原料。

 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 美国前总统，西奥多·罗斯福的外甥

 

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
你有没有想过做一个关于经济的演说很像是尿在你的腿上？它对你来说好像是热的，但其他人却没有感觉。
 Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1908-1973) 美国前总统

 

 

Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions.

经济学家是悲观主义者：他们预测出最近3个不景气里面的8个。

 Barry Asmus

 

 

Economy is how to spend money without enjoying it.

经济学就是讲怎么样花钱，而不能享受那个过程。

 

 

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

经济就是我们今天准备好来支付明天取得的改善的方法。
 Calvin Coolidge ( 1872-1933) 美国前总统

 

Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.

经济学家就是和数字打交道但不适合做会计的人。

 

 

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.

 

经济学里的一条鸿沟存在于我们拥有的和我们认为我们应该拥有的之间——而这是个道德问题，而不是经济学问题。

 Paul Heyne （1931-2000）

 

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

 

被高税率束缚的经济永远都无法产生足够的收入来平衡支出，就像它永远不会创造足够的就业或足够的利润一样。

 John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( 1917-1963) 美国前总统

 

 

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. （1999）

就在5年前，我们把网络只是看作新媒体，而不是新经济。

 Clement Mok （1958- ）美国设计师，软件工程师

 

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.

你不觉得这很奇怪吗？就是那些嘲笑吉普赛预言家的人在认真的听经济学家讲话。

 

 

When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that's called "economic reform".

 

当国际货币基金组织和世界银行强迫一个国家削减工资，解雇工人，为出口生产而不是为了本国的人，把公共财产便宜卖给伙伴时，这被称为“经济改革”。

 

 

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

经济学是一门不大尊重个人愿望的学科。

 Nikita Khrushchev ( 1894-1971) 前苏联共产党第一书记

 

 

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
 

我们一直都知道漠不关心的利己主义是坏的道德行为；我们现在知道了它还是坏的经济行为。

 Franklin D. Roosevelt 

 

 

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

 

基于一个不太恰当的人类动机理论的古典经济学理论，如果接受人类有更高需求这个事实，包括自我实现的驱使和对最高价值的热爱，那它会发生彻底变革。

 Abraham Maslow ( 1908-1970) 美国心理学家

 

We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

 

我们还是做了（迪斯尼乐园），即使知道这个情况，就是和我交谈的大部分人都认为它将成为财务上的一个灾难——在第一年关闭并被遗忘。

 Walt Disney ( 1901-1966) 美国电影制作人，动画作家

 

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

亨利·福特说的对。一个繁荣的经济要求工人能买得起他们生产的东西。这不管是在一国经济中，还是在全球经济中都是正确的。

 John J. Sweeney（1934- ） 美国劳工联合会-产业工会联合会主席

 

关于怀孕Pregnancy的名言

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

生活还不算艰难，如果没有人在里面踢你。

~Rita Rudner（1956- ）



There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

喂母乳有三个原因：奶的温度总是刚好；它来自诱人的容器；而猫没办法吃到。

~Irena Chalmers









You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

你永远不能对一个女人说，甚至是小心的暗示你觉得他怀孕了，除非在你真正看到一个婴儿从她肚子里出来的时候。

~Dave Barry（1947- ）



Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.

谈恋爱、怀孕和骑在骆驼上都会被发现。

~Arabic Proverb



Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.

怀孕是一种病，你需要18年零9个月来恢复。

~Carrie Latet



By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

到目前为止怀孕的女人最大的奢望就是没有怀孕。

~Phyllis Diller（1917- ）



Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

恋爱是欢乐的游戏，直到有人失去了眼睛或者怀上了孩子。

~Jim Cole



Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

不要在怀孕的时候去参加高中聚会，否则他们会认为你毕业后就做了这件事。

~Erma Bombeck（1927-1996）



If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

如果男人也有怀孕的风险——如果他们知道他们的肚子将要膨胀就像是在遭受晚期肝硬化的折磨，要一年不去酗酒，吸烟，甚至吃阿司匹林，那他们会很容易昏倒而不能再去上班——于是我确信怀孕可以归为性传播疾病，而堕胎不会比切割阑尾更有争议。

~Barbara Ehrenreich（1947- ）

关于避孕Birth Control的名言

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

安全套一点都不安全。我有一个朋友戴着一个就被公交车撞了。

~Bob Rubin（1938- ）美国前财政部长



The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

最好的避孕方法是说不——反复的说。

~Margaret Smith



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

避孕措施应该用在任何可以想得到的场合。

~Spike Milligan（1918-2002）



Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

熟悉产生不在乎——还有小孩。

~Mark Twain（1835-1910），美国作家



We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

我们都担心人口爆炸，但我们在最适合担心的时候却没有担心。

~Arthur Hoppe（1926-2000）



It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

现在对于一个天主教女人，采用数学方法避孕是合法的，但求助于物理或化学方法还是被禁止的。

~H.L. Mencken（1880-1956）



He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules!

他（教皇）不比赛，就不应该定规则。

~Earl Butz（1909- ）美国前农业部长, referring to the Pope's stricture against contraception



The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead.

最好的避孕方法是一杯冷水：不是在之前或之后，而是用它代替。

~Author Unknown



I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

我想要告诉你一个关于嘴巴避孕的极好的故事。我要求这个女孩跟我睡觉，她说“不”。

~Woody Allen（1935- ）美国导演



When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

当文明史被书写的时候，它将会是一个生物史，而玛格丽特·桑格将是它的主人公。

~H.G. Wells（1866-1946）英国科幻作家



A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

给男人服节育药才是公平的。将子弹拿出枪要比穿防弹衣更合理。

~Author Unknown



Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

那些在原则上反对节育的人要不是不懂得算术，就是想要让战争，鼠疫和灾害成为人类历史的永久特征。

~Bertrand Russell（1872-1970）英国哲学家




It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

如果避孕药可以从自动售货机上得到，而香烟可以出现在药方上，那对人类将是个福利。

~Malcolm Potts, MD（1952- ）美国科学家



No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

没有女人可以自称自由，如果不能拥有和控制自己的身体。没有女人可以自称自由，除非她有意识的选择她要不要当一个母亲。

~Margaret Sanger（1879-1966）美国节制生育运动先驱



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

在一个贫穷国家，获得安全套应该变得像获得可口可乐那样容易。

~Clare Short（1946- ）



For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

对于大部分妇女，包括想要孩子的女人，避孕不是备选项；它是必要的基本健康保障。

~Louise Slaughter（1929- ）

关于动物Animals的名言

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

有想过宠物怎么看我们吗？我的意思是，当我们从杂货店带回许多迷人的东西——鸡，猪，半头牛。它们一定会认为我们是地球上最伟大的猎手。

~Anne Tyler（1941- ）美国小说家



Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

动物是这样令人愉快的朋友——它们不提问，也不批评。

~George Eliot（1819-1880）英国小说家



You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

当你和一个与宠物作伴的人结婚，你在某种程度上会发疯。

~Nora Ephron（1941- ）美国导演、剧作家



An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

动物的眼睛有一种力量，能说一种伟大的语言。

~Martin Buber（1878-1965）德国犹太教作家



It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.

有一个重要而流行的事实就是事情并不总是它所看起来的那样。比如说，在某星球——地球上，人总是认为他比海豚聪明，因为他取得了这么大的成就——车轮，纽约，战争，等等——而所有的海豚所做的所有的事情不过是在水里玩过家家。但是相反，海豚一直相信它们要比人聪明的多——因为完全相同的原因。

~Douglas Adams（1952-2001）



Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

人是排名最高的动物，至少在所有交回调查问卷的动物中间。

~Robert Brault



Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.

许多人会跟动物说话……但很少人会去听……这就是问题

~Benjamin Hoff（1946- ）



Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

动物相对人有这些优点：它们从来听不到钟声，它们死时没有任何对死的想法，它们没有宗教来引导它们，它们的最后时光不会被不受欢迎、使人不快的仪式打扰，它们的葬礼不花一分钱，而且没有人开始在他们的遗嘱上提起诉讼打官司。

~Voltaire（1694-1778）法国启蒙运动领袖



[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts.

他不会相信他的狗有人的感觉，但是当你伤害到他的昆虫的时候他一定要让你知道。

~Robert Brault



It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

经常有这样的事，一个人对猫或狗要比对人更为仁慈。

~Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862）美国思想家



Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

我们的完美搭档永远不会少于四条腿。

~Colette（1873-1954）法国作家



Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back.

大部分宠物具有那么多的和人类相似的特点和情绪，以至于让我们经常忘记它们不懂英语，于是当我们对它们说话而它们没有任何回应的时候就会觉得受到冷落。

~Stephenie Geist



I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

我主张动物要有权利，其中一个重要权利就是轻轻磨蹭人的手。

~Robert Brault



I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

我研究了所谓的低等动物的特点和习性，然后将它们和人的特点和习性进行了对比。我发现结果让我脸红。

~Mark Twain（1835-1910）



I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

我喜欢猪。狗仰视我们。猫轻视我们。猪却能平等对待我们。

~Winston Churchill（1874-1965）英国政治家



There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

所有的动物都有一种责任感，而人高傲的称之为本能。

~Robert Brault



If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

如果所有的动物都灭绝，人也会在精神的巨大孤寂中死去，因为发生在动物身上的事也会发生在人身上。所有的事情都是联系着的。任何降临在地球上的事也会降临在地球之子的身上。

~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce



To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

要侮辱某个人我们会叫他“野兽”。因为故意的残忍和天性，叫他“人类”可能是更大的侮辱。

~Isaac Asimov（1920-1992）美国生物化学家、作家

巴鲁克Baruch的名言

巴鲁克 [Baruch, Bernard (Mannes)]

(1870.8.19,美国 南卡罗来纳州 卡姆登～1965.6.20,纽约州纽约市)


美国金融家和总统顾问。曾在华尔街证券交易所工作，在证券投机中积累了一笔财富。第一次世界大战中威尔逊总统指派他担任军事工业委员会主席。1919年在凡尔赛和会上，任经济委员会委员和威尔逊总统在签订条约方面的私人顾问。第二次世界大战期间作为战时经济动员专家，担任罗斯福总统的非官方顾问。战后在制订联合国国际管制原子能政策方面起了推动作用。




To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

对我来说，晚年永远在15年之后。



Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

选承诺最少的人，他将是令我们失望最少的。



If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

如果过去50年的历史教会了我们什么，那就是和平不是跟在裁军之后——是裁军跟在和平之后。



If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

如果你只有一个锤子，所有的东西看起来都像是钉子。



Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

不要企图在谷底买进，顶峰卖出，这只有吹牛的人才能做到。



A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

投机者观测未来，然后在它发生之前行动。



Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

年龄只是个阿拉伯数字。一个人不能让他的经验退休。他必须用它。依靠经验，花较少的精力和时间可以有更多的收获。



If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

如果你掌握了所有事实，你的判断可能会正确；如果你没有掌握所有事实，那就不可能正确。

关于无知Ignorance的名言

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

无知的快乐，以它自己的方式，和知识的快乐一样多，

~Aldous Huxley（1894-1963）英国作家



The most violent element in society is ignorance.

社会中最暴力的成分就是无知。

~Emma Goldman（1869-1940）



Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

在我们致力于人工智能之前，为什么不在天然愚蠢上做点事呢？

~Steve Polyak



You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

你可以在知识的海洋游一整天泳，出来身上还是干的。大部分人都这样。

~Norman Juster



It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

在争论中不可能击败一个无知的人。

~William G. McAdoo（1863-1941）美国前财政部长



The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

人们的困扰不是他们不知道，而是他们知道太多他们并不知道的事。

~Josh Billings（1818-1885）美国幽默作家



Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

不是毒品，也不是酒精，导致社会的病态。如果我们要寻找问题的根源，我们不应该做毒品测试，我们应该测试愚蠢、无知和对权力的贪欲。

~P.J. O'Rourke（1947- ）



Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

每个人都无知，只是在不同的领域而已。

~Will Rogers（1879-1935）美国幽默作家、演员



Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

无知也是一种权力！教育正在侵蚀留给我们不多的几个民主自由。

~Christopher Andrea



It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

它让我们愉快，就是天真，没有就是无知。

~Mignon McLaughlin（1913-1983）



A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

一个人绝对不会快乐，除非表现出某种程度的无知。

~Anatole France（1844-1924）法国作家，共产主义者



History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.

历史表明没有什么比无知更容易奴役，没有什么比无知更难解放，所以它成为文明的双重敌人。因为奴态成为了暴君的猎物，因为顽固成为了启蒙的天敌。

~Lemuel K. Washburn



Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

不是无知，而是对无知的无知，才是知识的死敌。

~Alfred North Whitehead（1861-1947）英国数学家、哲学家



Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

光比声音快。这就是大部分人在说话之前看起来很聪明的原因。

~Author Unknown



Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

一些科学家宣称氢，因为它的大量存在，是宇宙的基本构成元素。我对此有不同看法，照我说愚蠢要比氢更多，它才是宇宙的基本构成元素。

~Frank Zappa（1940-1993）美国音乐家、讽刺作家



Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

只有两种东西是永恒的，宇宙和人的愚蠢，而我对前者还不确定。

~Albert Einstein（1879-1955）德国科学家

关于行动Action的名言

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

我一直认为人的行动是他的思想最好的传达者。

~John Locke（1632-1704）英国思想家



Well done is better than well said.

说得好不如做得好。

~Benjamin Franklin（1706-1790）美国政治家、科学家



The shortest answer is doing.

最简短的回答就是做。

~Lord Herbert（1591-1658）



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.  

只相信动作。生活只发生在事件的层面，而不是言辞。

~Alfred Adler（1870-1937）奥地利精神病学家



We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

我们应该被教导不要等待灵感来了才行动。行动总是产生灵感。灵感很少产生行动。

~Frank Tibolt



A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

承诺是云，履行是雨。

~Arabian Proverb



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

一个没有与行动结合的想法永远不会变得比它所占据的脑细胞更大。

~Arnold Glasow



Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

计划的大事不如完成的小事。

~Peter Marshall



Never mistake motion for action.

不要把移动误认为行动。

~Ernest Hemingway（1899-1961）美国小说家



Action is eloquence.

事实就是雄辩。

~William Shakespeare（1564-1616）英国作家



There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

有太多的事我们希望在昨天已经做完，而很少有我们想要在今天做的事。

~Mignon McLaughlin（1913-1983）



A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

一只狂吠的狗经常比睡着的狮子更有用。

~Washington Irving（1783-1859）美国作家



Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

没有什么能比行动更快的消除焦虑。

~Walter Anderson



If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

如果“如果”是礼物，那每天都会是圣诞节。

~Charles Barkley（1963- ）美国前NBA前锋



Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

榜样是人类的学校，而他们不会向其他人学习。

~Edmund Burke（1729-1797）英国政治家



Talk doesn't cook rice.

空谈烧不好饭菜。

~Chinese Proverb



All know the way; few actually walk it.

所有人都知道路；很少有人去走。

~Bodhidharma 菩提达摩（6世纪），禅宗始祖



If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

如果你的工作为它自己辩驳，请不要打断它。

~Henry J. Kaiser（1882-1967）美国实业家



Action is the antidote to despair.

行动是绝望的解药。

~Joan Baez（1941- ）美国歌手、政治活动家



The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

伟大的作曲家不会因为有了灵感才去工作，而是因为工作而获得灵感。贝多芬，巴赫和莫扎特每天都像惯例般专注于工作，就像会计每天惯例般专注于数字。他们并没有在等待灵感上浪费时间。

~Ernest Newman（1868-1959）英国音乐评论家



We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

我们都倾向于根据我们的理想来评价自己；对于其他人，则看他们的行动。

~Harold Nicolson（1886-1968）



Don't find fault. Find a remedy.

不要找错误，要找解决方法。

~Henry Ford（1863-1947）美国实业家



What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them.

什么事应该做完了，什么事应该做，在它们之间经常是被扼杀的行动。

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

成功永远不会是未来的一大步，成功是现在走的一小步。

~Jonatan Mårtensson



Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

自然会带走一切没有用到的天赋。

~William R. Inge（1860-1954）



In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

在薄冰上滑的时候，我们的安全来自于我们的速度。

~Ralph Waldo Emerson（1803-1882）美国作家



One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

行动应当来自获得的静止：而不是单纯的不停往前冲。

~D.H. Lawrence（1885-1930）英国作家



Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

不是每件事去面对就会改变，但是不去面对，一切都不会改变。

~James Baldwin



Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

实践会消除理论无法解决的疑问。

~Tehyi Hsieh



Men expect too much, do too little.

期待最多的人，做的最少。

~Allen Tate（1899-1979）美国诗人



When deeds speak, words are nothing.

当事实说话的时候，言辞将空洞无物。

~African Proverb



As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

我年纪越大，就越少注意人们说什么。我只看他们做什么。

~Andrew Carnegie（1835-1919）美国实业家



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

所有问题都会变小，如果你不是逃避而是勇敢面对。

~William F. Halsey（1882-1959）美国海军上将



The best way out of a problem is through it.

摆脱一个问题最好的办法是穿过它。

~Author Unknown



I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

我相信人生一半的不愉快源自人们不敢直面问题。

~William J. Lock



People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

人们可能会怀疑你所说的，但他们会相信你所做的。

~Lewis Cass（1782-1866）美国将军



The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

君子欲讷于言而敏于行。

Confucius (前551  - 前479 )  儒家创始人



Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

没有行动的言辞是理想的杀手。

Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)  美国前总统



Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

不要对你的行动太过拘谨和在意。人生就是实验，你做的实验越多，就做的越好。

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

信不信由你Real Or Not

蟑螂没有头可以活9天，直到饿死。

鳄鱼无法伸出舌头。

猪的性高潮可以持续30分钟。

蜗牛一觉可以睡3年。

所有的北极熊都是左撇子。

美国的航空公司1987年节约了40000美元开支，就因为向高等舱提供的色拉每盘少放了一颗橄榄。

美国人平均每天吃18英亩比萨。

鸵鸟的眼睛比它的脑子大。

婴儿生下来时没有膝盖骨。它们直到2到6岁时才会长出来。

拿你的头撞墙一小时会消耗150卡的能量。

蝴蝶用脚来尝东西。

猫用嘴可以发出100种声音，狗只能发出大约10种。

猫尿在暗的地方会发光。

中国说英语的人超过了美国。

唐老鸭连环画在芬兰被禁是因为它不穿裤子。

决斗在巴拉圭是合法的，只要双方都有曾经献过血的证明。

大象是唯一不会跳的动物。

你每次舔邮票的时候都会消耗1/10卡的能量。

1865年2月是有记载的历史上唯一没有满月的一个月。

人和海豚是唯一把做爱当作享乐的物种。

I am是英语里最短的完整句子。

如果芭比娃娃和真人一样大，那她的三围是39-23-33。她高7英尺，前后长2英寸，脖子有普通人2倍长。

如果全部中国人排一列走过你身边，因为自然增长，这个队伍永远都不会结束。

如果你放屁持续6年零9个月，放出的气体足以产生一颗原子弹的能量。

如果你让金鱼呆在一个黑屋子里，它最后会变成白色。

如果你叫上8年7个月零6天，产生的声音的能量可以加热一杯咖啡。

在古埃及，祭司要拔掉身上所有的毛，包括眉毛和睫毛。

最近4000年里，人类没有驯化一种新的动物。

打喷嚏的时候不可能睁着眼。

列奥纳多·达芬奇发明了剪刀。

玛丽莲·梦露有六趾。

迈克·乔丹每年从耐克赚的钱超过耐克在马来西亚的工厂所有工人一年赚的钱。

每年死于驴的人数超过死于飞机失事的人数。

英语里没有一个单词和month押韵。

肉豆蔻如果静脉注射会产生剧毒。

人平均害怕蜘蛛的次数超过怕死的次数。

大麻在今天是非法的原因之一是因为30年代的棉花种植者游说议员来抵制大麻种植者，他们把这个看作竞争。

20亿人里面只会有一个人活116岁或更长。

我们的眼睛和出生时一样大，而我们的鼻子和耳朵却不会停止发育。

右撇子平均要比左撇子多活9年。

莎士比亚发明了单词assassination（暗杀）和bump（撞击）。

有些狮子一天做爱会超过50次。

海星没有脑子。

stewardess(空姐）是只用左手打出的最长的单词。

醉了的蚂蚁总是倒在右边。

人一生平均会在晚上吃8只蜘蛛。

鲶鱼有超过27000个味蕾。

巡洋舰伊丽莎白二世，每燃烧一加仑柴油只能移动6英寸。

电椅是一个牙科医生发明的。

人的心脏在向身体输送血液时产生的压力可以让血喷9米高。

雄性螳螂的头还长着的时候不可以交尾，雌性螳螂交配之前要把雄性螳螂的头扯下来。

世界上最常见的名字是穆罕默德。

所有大洲的名字的首字母和尾字母都是相同的。

名字Wendy是为写一本书"Peter Pan"编出来的。

弗吉尼亚，阿灵顿的五角大楼，有两倍于需要的浴室。当它在1940年代建成的时候，弗吉尼亚州仍然有种族隔离的法律，要求为黑人和白人提供不同的厕所。

句子"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"用了英语中的每一个字母。

历史上最短的战争发生在1896年桑给巴尔和英国之间。桑给巴尔在开战38分钟之后投降。

身体上最强壮的肌肉是舌头。

单词lethologica描述你无法记住想要记的单词的状况。

单词racecar和kayak从左往右和从右往左读都是相同的。

在美国每个人都有两张信用卡。

typewriter是只用键盘的一行字母打出来的最长的单词。

女人眨眼的次数差不多是男人的两倍。

和毒蜘蛛比起来，你死于香槟酒的软木塞的可能性更大。

你靠憋气是无法自杀的。

你和全世界至少900万人过一个生日。

Real Or Not

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

上帝与大学God And University

为什么上帝没有在一所大学获得终身职位？

1.他只出版过一本专业著作。

2.那还是用希伯来文写的。

3.还没有写参考书目。

4.也没在定期刊物上发表。

5.有人甚至质疑不是他自己写的。

6.他创造了世界可能是真的，但之后他做什么了？

7.他的合作精神极为有限。

8.科学界在复制他的结果时花了太多的时间。

9.他从来没向道德委员会申请同意以人类为实验对象。

10.当一个实验失败时，他通过淹死实验对象进行掩盖。

11.当实验对象没有像预想的表现的时候，他会从样本中把他们删除。

12.他很少去教室，只是叫学生读他的书。

13.一些人说他让他的儿子代他上课。

14.他开除了最早来听他课的两个学生。

15.尽管只有十项要求，大部分学生还是通不过他的考试。

16.他很少在办公室里，而总是呆在山顶。

God And University

Why God never received tenure at any university...

1. He had only one major publication.

2. It was in Hebrew.

3. It had no references.

4. It wasn't published in a referred journal.

5. Some even doubt he wrote it himself.

6. It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?

7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.

8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.

9. He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects.

10. When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it up by drowning the subjects.

11. When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.

12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the Book.

13. Some say he had his son teach the class.

14. He expelled his first two students for learning.

15. Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed his tests.

16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.