英语的经典句型

1. Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )

历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家弗朗西斯.培根)

2. If you don't learn to think when you are young , you may never learn.(Thomas Edison , American inventor )

如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。(美国发明家托马斯.爱迪生)

3. To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ----J. W. Gardner

对聪明人来说，每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。 ----J. W.加德纳

4. Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. ----Nietzsch

智慧的增长可用痛苦的减少来精确衡量。 ----尼采

5. It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ----Thoreau

光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么要勤劳。 ----梭罗

6. Reading make a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ----Bacon

读书使人充实，讨论使人机敏，写作使人精确。 ----培根

7. The three foundations of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. ----Catherall

求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。 ----加塞罗尔

8. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -----Bacon

若一确信而始者，将止于怀疑；而一怀疑而始者，将止于确信。 ----培根

9. Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ----Robert Browning

无知并非纯真，而是罪恶。 ----罗伯特.布朗宁

10. Reading is not merely sympathizing and understanding; it is also criticizing and judging. ----Virginia Woolf

阅读不仅是同情与理解，也是批评与判断。 ----拂吉尼亚.伍尔夫

11.Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.——Thomas Edison

天才就是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水。----托马斯·爱迪生

12.Never, never, never, never give up (Winston Churchill)

永远不要放弃。（英国首相 丘吉尔）