life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
生活如一個劇本：重要的不是長度而是演出精彩與否。——seneca
a man's not old, but mellow, like good wine.
人不會老朽， 而是越來越有味道，就像美酒。 ——stephen phillips
the world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.
世界如一面鏡子：皺眉視之，它也皺眉看你；笑著對它，它也笑著看你。
——h.l.samuel
one of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
人犯錯誤最危險的一種就是忘記自己的目標是什麼。 ——paul nitze
high expectations are the key to everything.
遠大理想是開啟萬物的鑰匙。
——sam walton
what makes life dreary is the want of motive.
缺少動力將讓生活無聊乏味。
——g.eliot
if you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
如果你等待，發生的只是你變老。
——larry mcmurtry
try not to ome a man of success but rather try to ome a man of value.
不要試圖去做個成功者，寧可做個有價值的人。 ——einstein
hope deserts us at no period of our existence.
在我們一生中，希望從來未遺棄過我們。
——r.l.stevenson
of this i am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
有一點我可以確信，如果我們就過去和現在展開一場爭吵， 我們就會發現我們已失去將來。——w.churchill
a at obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too at a happiness.
通往幸福的最大障礙就是對幸福苛求太多。 ——fontenelle
life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
精彩的人生未必完美。
——annette funicello
have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.
沒有目標的一生注定碌碌無為，確定一個目標吧。——r.peters
living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活沒有目標，就像航海沒有羅盤。
——john ruskin
hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是頓美好的早餐，但卻是頓糟糕的晚餐。——francis bacon
it is not by the y of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
白髮並不能告訴你一個人心靈的年紀。
——edward b.lytton
if you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
如果年輕時不培養知識，年老時將沒有乘涼的樹蔭。——chesterfield
pross is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
進步乃今日之努力，明日之保證。
——emerson
youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a ret.
青年時鹵莽；中年時奮鬥；老年時後悔。
——benjamin disraeli
time drops in decay, like a candle burnt out.
時間一點一滴地流逝，如同蠟燭慢慢燃盡。——willian yeats
one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
光輝人生中忙碌的一個小時抵得過碌碌無為的一生。——scott
when your will is ready, your feet are light.
當你的意志堅強了，你前進的腳步就輕快了。 ——herbert