Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
——George William Curtis, American writer
年纪只是个感觉的问题,而不是岁月的问题。
——美国作家G. W.柯蒂斯
An energetic middle life is, I think, the only safe precursor of a vitally happy old age.
——Vida Dutton Sucader, Americaneducator and writer
我认为,精力旺盛的中年生活是生气勃勃的幸福晚年的唯一可靠预兆。
——美国教育家、作家V. D.斯卡德
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.
——M.Deland, American writer
一旦你觉得做某件事年纪太大了,赶紧做它。
——美国作家M.迪兰
At twenty years of age, the will reigns, at thirty, the wit, and at forty, the judgment.
——Benjamin Franklin, American president
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。
——美国总统B.富兰克林
Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for thats the stuff life is made of.
——Benjamin Franklin, American president
你热爱生命吗?那么,别浪费时间,因为生命是由时间组成的。
——美国总统B.富兰克林
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.
——Richard Nixon, American president
历史巨轮飞转,分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵,也独具意义。
——美国总统R.尼克松
Experience proves that most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is delibe rately kicked over.
——Paul Meyer, French linguist
经验证明,大部分时间都是被一分钟一分钟地而不是一小时一小时地浪费掉的。一只底部有个小洞的桶和一只故意踢翻的桶同样会流空。
——法国语言学家P.梅耶
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
——Benjamin Franklin, American president
鱼放三天发臭,客住三天讨嫌。
——美国总统B.富兰克林
Gather your rosebuds while you may, old time is still flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
——Herrick Robert, British poet
有花堪折直须折,时光依然在飞逝;此花今日在欢笑,明日却要花叶凋。
——英国诗人H.罗伯特
He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have may.
——Thomas Heywood, British dramatist
可以为时不想为,想要为时已经不可为。
——英国作家T.海伍德
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
——Abraham Lincoln, American president
我走得很慢,但是我从来不会后退。
——美国总统A.林肯
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
——L. Agassiz, Swiss naturalist
我浪费不起时间去赚钱。
——瑞士博物学家L.阿加西斯
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
——John Galsworthy, Britishnovelist and dramatist
如果你不考虑未来,那么你就不能拥有未来。
——英国小说家、剧作家J.高尔斯华绥
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
——Pearl Buck, American female writer
想要懂得今天,就必须研究昨天。
——美国女作家B.赛珍珠
In delay there lies no plenty, then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, youths a stuff that will not endure.
——William Shakespeare, British dramatist
迁延蹉跎,来日无多,二十丽姝,请来吻我,衰草枯杨,青春易过。
——英国剧作家W.莎士比亚
In reality killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which time kills us.
——O. Sitwell, British writer
实际上,消磨时间只是时间用以消磨我们五花八门的方式的又一种方式而已。
——英国作家O.斯特韦尔
Let bygones be bygones.
——Homer, Ancient Greek poet
过去的事就让它过去吧。
——古希腊诗人荷马
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
——J. Lubbock, British banker and statesman
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行动,而不是时间。
——英国银行家、政治家J.卢伯克
Like coral insects multitudinous, the minutes are what of our life are made.
——J.Ingelow, British female writer
就像无以计数的珊瑚虫那样,我们的一生是由分分秒秒构成的。
——英国女作家J.英格洛
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
——Robert Southey, British writer and poet
不管你活得多久,头二十年都是你一生中最长的一半。
——英国作家、诗人R.索西
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance of medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
——Samuel Smiles, British writer
失去的财富可以靠勤奋换来,失去知识可以靠学习得来,失去的健康可以靠节制的药物得
来,但是失去的光阴一去不复返。
——英国作家S.斯密尔斯