月份: 2018 年 2 月

Love

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
—Sanit Paul (ca. A.D. 5-A.D. 67 Jesus’ apostle who preaches the Christianity to the non-Jews.)
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
—Jesus
He who loves well chastises well.
—French proverb
Without respect, love cannot go far.
—Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870 French novelist and playwright)
Choose your love, and then love your choice.
—Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolaevich 1828-1910 Russian novelist and philosopher)
If you love me, let it be for naught, except for love’s sake only.
—Robert Browning (1812-1889 British poet)
Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
—Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885 French poet and novelist)
Love is a sweet torment.
—Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596 British navigator and sea captain)
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
—Plato (ca. 427-347 B.C. Greek philosopher)
It is possible to learn more of a human being in one minute of love than in months of observation.
—Romain Rolland (1866-1944 French writer)
Love is blind to the pretty follies that themselves commit.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
The course of true love never did run smooth.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Love triumphs over everything. Love has no age, no limit and no death.
—John Galsworthy (1867-1933 British novelist and playwright)
Love is not getting, but giving.
—Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641 British artist)

Freedom

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
—Thomas Jeferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
—Samuel Bowles (1826-1878 American journalist)
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
—Edward Robert Bulwer-lytton (1831-1891 British politician and poet)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
—William Allen White (1868-1944 American journalist)
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
—John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher)
No one can be perfectly free till all are free.
—Herbert Spencer (1820-1903 British philosopher)
Escape complexities and superfluities and extravagances, only so can you live a free life.
—Diogenes (ca. 412-323 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
—George Washington (1732-1799 1st President of the United States)
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.
—Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924 28th President of the United States)
Liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that keeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be conflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
—Edmund Burke (1729-1797 British politician and orator)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
—Thomas Paine (1737-1809 Amencan author)
Give me liberty, or give me death.
—Patrick Henry (1736-1799 American politician and orator)

Sadness

Tears are the silent language of grief.
—Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778 French writer)
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
—Marcel Proust (1871-1922 French novelist)
Grief is itself a medicine.
—William Cowper (1731-1800 British poet)
He best can pity who has felt the worse.
—John Gay (1685-1732 British poet and dramatist)
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C. Roman statesman and orator)
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
—Michel Eyguem Montaigne (1533-1592 French essayist)
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C. Roman writer)
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
—Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 Italian poet)
What’s the use of worrying? /It never was worthwhile, /So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, /And smile, smile, smile.
—George Asaf (1880-1951 British songwriter)
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882 American poet)
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
—John Milton (1608-1674 British poet)
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
—Napoleon (Bonaparte 1762-1821 French Emperor)
Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
—John Dryden (1631-1700 English playwright and Poet Laureate)
Great souls suffer in silence.
—German proverb

Joy and Laughter

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shows at the same time pearls and the soul.
—Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885 French poet and novelist)
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863 British novelist)
Anticipating pleasure is also a pleasure.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805 German poet and playwright)
Laugh and be fat.
—Harington
Every man to his taste.
—Lavater (1741-1801 Swiss poet)
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
—Jane Austin (1775-1817 British novelist)
A man who is never satisfied with himself and whom therefore nobody can please.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet and playwright)
It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
—Frederick Marryat (1792-1848 British novelist)
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
—Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British poet and essayist)
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
—Italian proverb
Labour is often the father of pleasure.
—Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778 French writer)
Work while you work, play while you play; this is the way to be cheerful and gay.
—Richard Henry Stoddart (1825-1903 American poet and critic)
A happy smile and a kindly thought are finer gems than can be bought.
—Gordon
The foundation of true happiness is in the conscience.
—Lucius Anenaus Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65 Roman philosopher and statesman)

Happiness

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
—Agnes Repplier (1855-1950 American essayist)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862 American author)
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th President of the United States)
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
—George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile 1804-1876 French novelist)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
—Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885 French poet and novelist)
Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.
—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962 32nd First Lady of the United States)
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
—Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British poet)
No joy without annoy.
—John Clarke (1933-1992 American poet)
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
—Anonymous
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
—Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (ca. 480-524 Roman philosopher)
Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
—Solon (ca. 638-559 B.C. Greek statesman)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British playwright)
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
—Paul Scherrer (Swiss physicist)
Happy men shall have many friends.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774 British writer)

Gain and Loss

A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
No man can lose what he never had.
—Izaak Walton (1593-1683 British writer)
Blind zeal can only do harm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
—Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 Soviet poet and novelist)
A little of everything, and nothing at all.
—Michel Eyguem Montaigne (1533-1592 French essayist)
Prefer losses to unjust gains.
—Barkley
What a day may bring a day may take away.
—Thomas Fuller (1608-1661 British churchman)
Hope of ill-gotten gain is the beginning of losses.
—Italian proverb
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955 American physicist)
Man proposes, God disposes.
—George Herbert (1593-1633 British priest and poet)
God helps those who help themselves.
—Chinese proverb
If you believe in the Lord, he will do half the work — but the last half. He helps those who help themselves.
—Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930 American aviation pioneer and inventor)
Two dogs strive for a bone and a third runs away with it.
—La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680 French writer)
An efficacious medicine tastes bitter.
—Chinese proverb
In the days of prosperity be joyful, but in days of adversity consider.
—Ecclesiastes

Adversity and Fate

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
—Hellen Keller (1880-1968 American author)
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
—William Penn (1644-1718 British philosopher)
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65-8 B.C. Roman poet)
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
—John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963 35th President of the United States)
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British playwright)
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
—Cornelius Tacitus (55-117 Roman historian)
Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65 Roman statesman and philosopher)
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
—Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist)
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
—Francis Bacon (1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.
—German proverb
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925 American politician)
We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast.
—William II (1056-1100 King of England)
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man.
—Benjammin Disraeli (1804-1881 British Prime Minister and writer)
Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
—Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet)
For man is man and master of his fate.
—Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892 British Poet Laureate)

Struggle and Success

I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.
—William Hogarth (1697-1764 British painter)
You never know what you can do till you try.
—Frederick Marryat (1792-1848 British novelist)
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
—Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965 British poet)
Where there is a will, there is a way.
—Thomas Alux Edison (1847-1931 American inventor)
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
—Samuel Johnson (1709-1794 British poet and essayist)
The early bird catches the worm.
—William Camden (1551-1623 British antiquarian and historian)
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
—Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930 British Poet Laureate)
Honesty and diligence should be your eternal mates.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645-1696 French essayist)
Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.
—Michael Moore (1954- American author and social critic)
I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.
—Napoleon (Bonaparte 1762-1821 French Emperor)
You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
—Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977 British comic actor)
Never be unduly elated by victory or depressed by defeat.
—Horace Porter (1837-1921 American soldier and diplomat)
You make the failure complete when you stop trying.
—Stansifer
Man is not made for defeat.
—Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961 American novelist and journalist)

Ideals and Life

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
—Socrates (ca. 470-399 B.C. Greek philosopher)
It is great to be great, but it is greater to be human.
—Samuel Rogers (1763-1855 British poet)
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
—Charles Dickens (1812-1870 British novelist)
Man can survive only when he has the substance, man can live only when he has ideal… Animals survive while men live.
—Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885 French poet and novelist)
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
—Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870 French novelist and playwright)
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
—Isreal Zangwill (1864-1926 British playwright and novelist)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955 American physicist)
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.
—Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910 Russian novelist and philosopher)
Ideals are like the stars — we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
—Carl Schurz (1829-1906 German-born American statesman)
Ideals must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830-1882 American esnnyisit and poet)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945 32nd President of the United States)
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
—Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910 American humorist)
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not let yourselves be carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads.
—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822 British poet)