马克・吐温(Mark Twain),原名塞姆・朗赫恩・克列门斯(Samuel Langhorne Clemens);(1835年11月30日――1910年4月21日)是美国的幽默大师、小说家、作家,亦是著名演说家。虽然其家财不多,却无损其幽默、机智与名气,堪称美国最知名人士之一。其交游广阔,威廉・迪安・豪威尔士、布克・华盛顿、尼古拉・特斯拉、海伦・凯勒、亨利・罗杰诸君,皆为其友。他曾被誉为:文学史上的林肯。海伦・凯勒曾言:“我喜欢马克吐温――谁会不喜欢他呢?即使是上帝,亦会钟爱他,赋予其智慧,并于其心灵里绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”威廉・福克纳称马克・吐温为“第一位真正的美国作家,我们都是继承他而来”。其于1910年去世,年七十五,安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。
马克吐温名言
1、It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
最好闭上嘴,让别人认为你傻,而决不把嘴巴张开去解答所有的疑难。
2、To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
生活的成功需要两个因素:愚昧以及自信。
3、The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
取得进展的秘诀就是开始;开始的秘诀就是将令人窒息的复杂任务,细化成可操作的任务,然后开始做第一件。
4、Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
人人都是月亮,都有决不让人知道的阴暗面。
5、A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
当真理还正在穿鞋的时候,谎言就能走遍半个世界。
6、A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
一个人的性格可以到他交谈中使用的形容词中去了解。
7、Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
首先弄到事实,然后你就可以随心所欲地把他们扭曲。
8、Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
真正伟大的人让你产生你也能伟大起来的感觉。
9、The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
你解释越多,我越难理解。
10、Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
今天显然什么也不会发生。
11、The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
先是怕生,后才怕死。完全活过的人,随时都准备死。
12、Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是聋子能听,瞎子能看的语言。
13、The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
越是禁止的事物越流行。
14、The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
保持身体健康的唯一办法,就是吃点你不想吃的,喝点你不想喝的,以及做点你不愿做的事情。
15、When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
垂钓爱情用心而不是用脑做诱饵。
16、我了解你们的种族。它是由绵羊组成的。他们给少数人统治着,很少或者从来没有给多数人统治过。他们压抑了自己的感情和信仰,跟随着一小撮拼命喊叫的人。有时候那喊叫的人是对的,有时候是错的;可是那没关系,大伙儿总是因为你们永远并且始终是少数人的奴隶。(
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