Pick Up! QUOTES Eng.-2-Jpn.- 「名言英語学習」体験ツアー -
Pick Up! QUOTES Eng.-2-Jpn.| ―Brief sketch of a PERSON born TODAY in history― (→ QUOTE: in English / in Japanese) |
▼ 本辞書（ok312.com版）に待望の全面改訂新版、 ▼
Words of Wisdom OK312: 英日対照・名言ことわざ辞典++
▲ （ok312.net版）が誕生！ 毎日更新、増補中！！ ▲
| Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec RANDOM | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wk. | Da. | Quoted Passages | Sources |
| Jan. 1 | 1st | Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) | ||
| Jan. 8 | 2nd | Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." | Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) |
| Jan. 15 | 3rd | The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. | John (Patrick Jr) McEnroe (1959-) |
| Jan. 22 | 4th | The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. | Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Jan. 29 | 5th | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Jan. 31 | 6th | Comprehension Tests vol.1 ▲ | |
| Feb. 5 | 7th | Learning without thought is labo(u)r lost; thought without learning is perilous. | Confucius (551?-479B.C.): Lun Yü |
| Feb. 12 | 8th | We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. | Plato(n) (427-347B.C.) |
| Feb. 19 | 9th | I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Feb. 26 | 10th | I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. | Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Feb. 28 | 11th | Comprehension Tests vol.2 ▲ | |
| Mar. 5 | 12th | When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. | Stephen William Hawking (1942-) |
| Mar. 12 | 13th | The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. | William (Gerald) Golding (1911-93) |
| Mar. 19 | 14th | Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. | William (Cuthbert) Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Mar. 26 | 15th | Man is no more than a reed, the weakest in nature. But he is a thinking reed. | Blaise Pascal (1623-62): Pensées |
| Mar. 31 | 16th | Comprehension Tests vol.3 ▲ | |
| Apr. 2 | 17th | Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." | Samuel I(chiye) Hayakawa (1906-92) |
| Apr. 9 | 18th | The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Apr. 16 | 19th | Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. | Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) |
| Apr. 23 | 20th | For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92): Maud Muller |
| Apr. 30 | 21st | The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the eggs--not by smashing them. | Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow (1874-1945) |
| Apr. 30 | 22nd | Comprehension Tests vol.4 ▲ | |
| May. 7 | 23rd | I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. | Hank [Henry Louis] Aaron (1934-) |
| May. 14 | 24th | Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. | David Lloyd George (1863-1945) |
| May. 21 | 25th | Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. | Art(h)ur Rubinstein (1887-1982) |
| May. 28 | 26th | If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. | Walt(er Elias) Disney (1901-66) |
| May. 31 | 27th | Comprehension Tests vol.5 ▲ | |
| Jun. 4 | 28th | Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) |
| Jun. 11 | 29th | One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. | (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) |
| Jun. 18 | 30th | In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. | Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1905-61) |
| Jun. 25 | 31st | By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become happy; and if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher. | Socrates (469?-399B.C.) |
| Jun. 30 | 32nd | Comprehension Tests vol.6 ▲ | |
| Jul. 2 | 33rd | He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. | Edmund Burke (1729-97): Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Jul. 9 | 34th | If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. | Marvin (Pentz) Gaye(, Jr.) (1939-84) |
| Jul. 16 | 35th | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Jul. 23 | 36th | Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. | Samuel Johnson (1709-84) |
| Jul. 30 | 37th | Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. | James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924-87) |
| Jul. 31 | 38th | Comprehension Tests vol.7 ▲ | |
| Aug. 6 | 39th | Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity ... any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. | John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) |
| Aug. 13 | 40th | When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. | Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) |
| Great people just do what they can make themselves while others do nothing but what they can never make. | Romain Rolland (1866-1944) | ||
| Aug. 20 | 41st | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | Bertrand (Arthur William) Russel (1872-1970) |
| Aug. 27 | 42nd | In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. | Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-74) |
| Aug. 31 | 43rd | Comprehension Tests vol.8 ▲ | |
| Sep. 3 | 44th | It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. | John Milton (1608-74) |
| Sep. 10 | 45th | The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
| Sep. 17 | 46th | The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. | Elton John (1947-) |
| Sep. 24 | 47th | Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Sep. 30 | 48th | Comprehension Tests vol.9 ▲ | |
| Oct. 1 | 49th | Even though I give all my belongings to feed the hungry and surrender my body to be burned, but I have no love, I am not in the least benefited. | Saint Paul (?-c67) --Bible: 1st Corinthians Chapter 13 |
| Oct. 8 | 50th | How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. | Comte Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1947) |
| Oct. 15 | 51st | Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. | Anaïs Nin (1903-77) |
| Oct. 22 | 52nd | The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. | Arthur C(harles) Clarke (1917-): The Lost Worlds of 2001 |
| Oct. 29 | 53rd | Some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. --Alyosha Karamazov | Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821-81): The Brothers Karamazov vol.2, "Epilogue" sct.3 |
| Oct. 31 | 54th | Comprehension Tests vol.10 ▲ | |
| Nov. 5 | 55th | A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. | Francis Bret(t) Harte (1836-1902) |
| Nov. 12 | 56th | It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. | Arnold Toynbee (1852-83) |
| Nov. 19 | 57th | Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story. | William [Count] Basie (1904-84) |
| Nov. 26 | 58th | Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. | Truman Capote (1924-84) |
| Nov. 30 | 59th | Comprehension Tests vol.11 ▲ | |
| Dec. 3 | 60th | Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. | Tom(my) [Thomas Charles] Lasorda (1927-) |
| Dec. 10 | 61st | There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. | Aldous (Leonard) Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Dec. 17 | 62nd | You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Dec. 24 | 63rd | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Dec. 31 | 64th | We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) |
| Dec. 31 | 65th | Comprehension Tests vol.12 ▲ | |
▼ 本辞書（ok312.com版）に待望の全面改訂新版、 ▼
Words of Wisdom OK312: 英日対照・名言ことわざ辞典++
▲ （ok312.net版）が誕生！ 毎日更新、増補中！！ ▲
