One cannot eat one’s cake and have it.

一个人不能把他的糕饼吃掉之后还留在手上。 —— Davies 戴维斯

Time is money.

时间就是金钱。—— Benjamin Franklin富兰克林

Time and tide wait for no man.

时间不等人。—— Scott 斯科特

There is no rose without a thorn¹.

没有玫瑰花是不长刺的。—— Ray 雷

Lookers-on see most of the game.

旁观者清。—— Smedley 斯密莱

Beggars cannot be choosers.

行乞者不得有选择。—— Heywood 希伍德

First catch your hare.

首先必须捕获兔子，然后才能宰之。—— Thackeray 萨克雷

Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.

胜利是不会向我走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。—— M. Moore 穆尔

A great man is always willing to be little.

伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。—— R. W. Emerson 爱默生

Cowards² die many times before their deaths.

懦夫在未死之前，已身历多次死亡的恐怖了。 —— Julius Caesar 凯撒

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能将它实现。 —— Jules Verne 凡尔纳

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

早睡早起使人健康、富裕又聪明。—— Benjamin Franklin 富兰克林

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。—— T. Fuller 富勒

Goals determine what you are going to be.

目标决定你将成为为什么样的人。—— Julius Erving欧文

All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope.

人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词 — 等待和希望。—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲马(法国作家)

It is not enough to be industrious³, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?

光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。—— H. D. Thoreau梭罗

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.

人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。—— Charles Chaplin卓别林

Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.

没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了。—— [越南] Ho Chi Minh胡志明

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

我不缅怀过去的历史，而致力于未来的梦想。—— T. Jefferson 杰弗逊(美国第3任总统)

Money is round. It rolls away.

圆圆钱币，滚走容易。—— S. Aleichen 阿雷钦

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

我们要尽可能为生活增加一些东西，而不是从中索取什么。—— William Osler 奥斯勒

Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning.

没有学院和大学的帮助，人生本身也正在变成一所高等学府。 —— Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生