英語名人名言: 觀點Attitudes

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Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
    —— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
    —— Anonymous
    Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
    —— Josh Billings
    When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
    —— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
    —— James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
    —— Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
    The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
    —— Winston Churchill
    Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
    —— Thomas Dewar
    Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
    —— Finley Peter Dunne
    Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
    —— Albert Einstein
    I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
    —— W. C. Fields
    Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
    —— Libbie Fudim
    Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
    —— John Galsworthy
    Success is just a matter of attitude.
    —— Darcy E. Gibbons
    It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
    —— Andre Gide
    Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
    —— William Hazlitt
    When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
    Wretched, bored, dejected; only
    here's the rub, my darling dear,
    I feel the same when you are here.
    —— Samuel Hoffenstein
    A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
    —— Kin Hubbard
    The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
    —— William James
    You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
    —— Stanislaw J. Lec
    Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
    —— Ralph Marston
    Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
    —— H. L. Mencken
    My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
    —— Vladimir Nabokov
    Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
    —— Friedrich Nietzsche
    As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
    —— Proverbs 23:7
    Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
    —— Tom Robbins
    We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
    —— Betty Shabazz
    The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
    —— George Bernard Shaw
    Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
    —— Thomas Szasz
    Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
    —— Margaret Thatcher
    A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
    —— Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
    And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    —— Antoine de Saint-Exupery