英文名句，英文名言佳句賞析 vol.15

1. Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

   Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

   不可因起床過晚兒縮短了清晨時光；把清晨當成生命的典型，有如某種程度的神聖。

   叔本華，《忠告與格言》
2. To beautify life is to give it an object.

   Jose Marti, On Oscar Wilde

   美化生命及賦予生命目標。

   馬惕，《論王爾德》
3. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

   Maugham

   如果國家對任何事的評估高於自由，它會喪失自由；諷刺的是，如果它評估高的是安逸或金錢，它也會喪失安逸或金錢。

   毛姆
4. Books cannot be killed by fire. People due, but books never die. No man no face can abolish memory.

   Roosevelt

   書不會毀於戰火。人會死，但書勇不死。沒有人也沒有武力可以終止記憶。

   羅斯福
5. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

   Disraeli, Sybil

   自知無知乃是邁向知識的一大步。

   狄斯累利《西碧爾》
6. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

   Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

   結婚是權利減半，責任加倍。

   叔本華，《世界之為意志與理念》
7. Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

   George Sand

   為藝術而藝術是句空話。為真、為善、為美而藝術是我追尋的信條。

   喬治桑
8. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

   Kennedy, “Inaugural Address”

   自由社會如果不能幫助眾多的窮人，也就不能保全少數的富人。

   甘迺迪 〈就職演說〉
9. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation to, as present to the prosterity of those who are yet unborn.

   Addison, The Spectator

   書是偉大的天才留給人類的遺產，當作給予尚未出生的後代的禮物。

   亞狄生，《旁觀者》
10. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

    Johnson

    生活是需求不斷的過程，而非享樂不斷的過程。

    約翰生