我走得很慢,但是我從來不會後退。
——美國總統A.林肯
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
——L. Agassiz, Swiss naturalist
我浪費不起時間去賺錢。
——瑞士博物學家L.阿加西斯
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
——John Galsworthy, Britishnovelist and dramatist
如果你不考慮未來,那麼你就不能擁有未來。
——英國小說家、劇作家J.高爾斯華綏
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
——Pearl Buck, American female writer
想要懂得今天,就必須研究昨天。
——美國女作家B.賽珍珠
In delay there lies no plenty, then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, youths a stuff that will not endure.
——William Shakespeare, British dramatist
遷延蹉跎,來日無多,二十麗姝,請來吻我,衰草枯楊,青春易過。
——英國劇作家W.莎士比亞
In reality killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which time kills us.
——O. Sitwell, British writer
實際上,消磨時間隻是時間用以消磨我們五花八門的方式的又一種方式而已。
——英國作家O.斯特韋爾
Let bygones be bygones.
——Homer, Ancient Greek poet
過去的事就讓它過去吧。
——古希臘詩人荷馬
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
——J. Lubbock, British banker and statesman
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行動,而不是時間。
——英國銀行家、政治家J.盧伯克
Like coral insects multitudinous, the minutes are what of our life are made.
——J.Ingelow, British female writer
就像無以計數的珊瑚蟲那樣,我們的一生是由分分秒秒構成的。
——英國女作家J.英格洛
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
——Robert Southey, British writer and poet
不管你活得多久,頭二十年都是你一生中最長的一半。
——英國作家、詩人R.索西
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance of medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
——Samuel Smiles, British writer
失去的財富可以靠勤奮換來,失去知識可以靠學習得來,失去的健康可以靠節製的藥物得
來,但是失去的光陰一去不複返。
——英國作家S.斯密爾斯