经典英文名人名言：没人一无是处（也没有人伟大到无法超越）
一
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
——Bertrand Russel
译文：这个世界根本的问题在于，愚蠢的人们都自信满满，而聪明的人们却总是充满了怀疑。
——伯特兰·罗素
二
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
——Mark Twain
译文：永远不要跟成桶买墨水的人吵架。
——马克·吐温
三
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ——Charles Dickens
译文：伟大的人物很少会一丝不苟地整理着装。
——查尔斯·狄更斯
四
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ——F. Scott Fitzgerald
译文：会议很少能讨论出好主意，但是能消灭很多蠢主意。
——菲茨杰拉德
五
Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.
——Louis Psteur
译文：根据观察得到的经验，机会只青睐那些有准备的人。
——路易·巴斯德
六
One should look long and carefully at oneself before one considers judging others.
——Moliere, Le Misanthrope
译文：一个人在开始评判别人之前，先要仔仔细细地审视过自己才行。
——莫里哀
七
As I grew older I realized that hurting people through criticism was a form of failure… One hurt them for things one hadn"t done oneself.
——Cyril Connolly
译文：随着年龄的增长，我发现用批评去伤害他人本身就是一种失败……一个人常因为自己也没能完成的事去伤害别人。
——西里尔·康诺利
八
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There"s far less competition.
——Dwight Morrow, letter to his son
译文：这个世界的人分成两种：一种人真正地做事，一种人得到好处。如果可以的话，尽量做第一种人，竞争要少得多。
——德怀特·莫洛
九
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
——Mark Twain
译文：一个有新想法的人在把它实现之前，都会被认为是个怪人。
——马克·吐温
十
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
——Jack London
译文：生命并非在于抓了一手好牌，而是要把烂牌打好。
——杰克·伦敦
十一
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
——John D. Rockefeller
译文：如果想要成功，你就必须开辟新的道路，而不是遵循别人的旧路。
——约翰·洛克菲勒
十二
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
——Ludwig van Beethoven
译文：你是什么呢？你只是你偶然的出生（公爵）；我是什么呢，我全靠我自己。会有一千个公爵产生，却只会有一个贝多芬。
——贝多芬
十三：
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent that he cannot be excelled .
——Baltasar Gracian
译文：没人一无是处，也没有人伟大到无法超越。
——巴尔塔沙·格拉西安
十四：
I am not fond of aphorisms, they are one-sizefits-all; each has its opposite, and whatever line of conduct you follow, there is always one to backyou up.
——Alfred de Musset, Emmeline
译文：我不喜欢格言……它们以偏概全；每句格言都有与之相反的一句，不论你怎样做，都有支持你的一句。
——阿尔弗雷德·德·缪塞
十五
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
——Abraham Lincoln
译文：永远记住，你自己对成功的决心，比任何事情都来得重要。
——亚伯拉罕·林肯
十六：
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
——Helen Keller
译文：永远不要低下你的头。高高地抬起头来，保持乐观，要勇于直面这个世界。 ——海伦·凯勒
十七：
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
——Nietzsche
译文：如果你总是注视着深渊，那么深渊也注视着你。
——尼采
十八
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don"t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can"t find them, make them.
——G. B. Shaw
译文：人们总是抱怨环境使他们成为了现在的样子，我不相信这个借口。人们来到这个世界上是为了寻找他们想要的环境，如果他们找不到的话，就应该自己创造想要的环境。
——萧伯纳
十九：
What experience and history teach us, however, is this, that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history.
——Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Lectures
译文：历史与经验告诉我们的是：人类与政府从未从历史中吸取任何经验教训。 ——弗里德里希·黑格尔
二十：
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were.
——John Donne
译文：
没有人是真正的孤岛，每个人都是大陆的一部分，整体的一部分；
如果其中一块被海水冲走，就像少了一个海角一样，欧洲大陆也就少了一块。
——约翰·邓恩