作者簡介
李清如，對英語類休閒讀物有著極大興趣。閱讀、策劃、編寫是其主要生活內容。本書為其策劃的系列雙語圖書的主打作品。
圖書目錄
Chapter 1 Time 時間
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Everything has its time.
Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
Every tide has its ebb.
One of these days is none of these days.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Idle folk have the least leisure.
Gather your rosebuds while you may.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Don’t waste life in doubts and fears.
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
I’m not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Time is the only capital for those who possess nothing but intelligence.
Chapter 2 Life 人生
The sea has fish for every man.
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The longest night will have an end.
Better late than never.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Goals determine what you are going to be.
Great hopes make great man.
Complaints are always negative numbers in human life.
Life consists of unending cycle of happiness and pain.
There is nothing permanent except change.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
Plain living and high thinking.
Variety is the spice of life.
The best things in life are free.
Chapter 3 Self-Cultivation 修養
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Pride comes before a fall.
When you judge others you condemn yourself.
The wise man is always a good listener.
One flower makes no garland.
Promise is debt.
No way is impossible to courage.
The used key is always bright.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
When your will is ready, your feet are light.
Patience is the remedy for every trouble.
Good temper is the best coat for any man in social activities.
Anger is a wind, which blows out the lamp of the mind.
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop perseverance.
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Fine character is superior to wisdom.
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
Chapter 4 Success 成功
You have to believe in yourself.That’s the secret of success.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Adversity leads to prosperity.
Keeping is harder than winning.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
While there is life there is hope.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
No road of flowers leads to glory.
Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.
Opportunity comes often to the man who is ready for it.
He who laughs last, laughs best.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
In unity there is strength.
No pain, no gain.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Final success often comes in the last five minutes.
To be willing is to be able.
Never do things by halves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Chapter 5 Wisdom 智慧
He who questions nothing learns nothing
Better to ask the way than go astray.
No man is born wise.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Two heads are better than one.
Experience is a school from which one can never graduate.
He that walks with wise men shall be wise.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Wisdom will be exhausting if not used.
An ounce of a man’s own wit is worth a ton of other people’s.
A wise man likes to learn, while a fool likes to teach others.
Sloth turns the edge of wit.
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Find excuses for others but never for yourself.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
Doubt is the key of knowledge.
A Jade of all trades is master of none.
Actions speak louder than words.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Chapter 6 Philosophy 哲理
First impressions are half the battle.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
Constant dropping wears away the stone.
Every extremity is a fault.
Still waters run deep.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Beauty is but skin-deep.
There is no rose without a thorn.
Every shoe fits not every foot.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Knowledge rests upon not only truth but also errors.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
All is not gold that glitters.
The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
The bough that bears most, hangs lowest.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
Chapter 7 Friendship 友誼
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A friend without faults will never be found.
A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
No road is long with good company.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
All are not friends that speak us fair.
Suspicion is the poison of true friendship.
Friendship is a kind of equality of harmony.
A friend is a second self.
Many a friend is better than a lot of wealth.
Friends are families you choose for yourself.
A life without a friend is a life without sunshine.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Those who praise us behind our backs are our good friends.
We should behave to our friends as we should expect our friends to behave to us.
Slow help is no help
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
Friendship is like wine.It gets better as it grows older.
A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Chapter 8 Love ? Marriage ?
Family 愛情 ? 婚姻 ? 家庭
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Hasty love, soon cold.
Every Jack has his Jill.
Love is blind.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
Love is a chord in life, not a solo.
Trust is virtue of love.
True love never grows old.
Love means firmness.
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love makes the world go round.
Love is not only a sentiment but also an art.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
There is no perfect marriage without love.
We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves.
Lack of parental love makes no full men.
He is the happiest, be the King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
Chapter 9 Happiness 幸福
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
All happiness is in the mind.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Happiness takes no account of time.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
The real happiness of this world is not to take, but to give.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Anticipating pleasure is also a pleasure.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
The secret of happiness is let your interests be as wide as possible.
Happiness is always a rebound from hard work.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
He who seeks only for applause from outside has all his happiness in another’s keeping.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
The only way to multiply happiness is to share it.
Virtue alone is happiness.
Chapter 10 Health 健康
Many dishes make many diseases.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The first wealth is health.
A light heart lives long.
Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man.
Sleep is the nature’s soft nurse.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
Life lies in physical exercise.
Health is never valued until the sickness comes.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
Music is the medicine of a breaking heart.
Alternating this with that is a way to have a rest.
When you cannot find time for a rest, it is high time you needed a rest.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise.
The best way to keep fit is to keep a heart young.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
序言
古人曾說：“贈人以錢，不如贈人以言。”格言警句，是在人類經過上千年的文明中，由經驗與智慧凝聚而成的，是人類永恆的寶貴財富。它往往蘊涵著深厚的生活哲理，是思想的武器，是精神的財富，充滿了人格的力量，可以給人以啟迪。
格言是全人類文明智慧的共同結晶，每一種語言都有自己的諺語，而不同文化中的格言警句往往相通。本書將常用格言警句以英漢對照的方式分類編排，根據主題分為十個章節──時間、人生、修養、成功、智慧、哲理、友情、愛情、幸福、健康，涵蓋了日常生活的多個方面，幫助讀者理解和掌握相關的格言警句。
本書在介紹每則格言時，不僅配有中英文講解，方便讀者理解，而且根據所選格言，提供兩個句式結構相同或相似的例句作為參考，幫助讀者鞏固和加深對英文句式的掌握。同時，更有生活實景對話舉例，將所選格言自然地融入日常對話中，帶給讀者全英文情境的真實體驗，使讀者在體驗格言在生活中套用的同時，增強英文口語交際能力。此外，編者在格言本意的基礎上作了進一步闡釋，與讀者分享體驗，共同領悟人生的真諦，同時，將格言、例句、對話中涉及的較難的英文單詞列入單詞表，供讀者隨時查詢，提高學習效率。
仔細領略和品味這些格言警句，令人感受至深。希望本書在幫助您提高英文能力的同時，更能助您理解人生的哲理，從而成為您生活、學習中的良師益友！
