A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
祝愿
Wishes
Wishes won't wash dishes.
愿望不能洗碗。
Where there is peace, God is.
哪里有和平,哪里就有上帝。
May it always be spring with you.
愿春天永远与你同在。
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
伟大的人物有目标;其他人的愿望。
It is better to keep peace than to make peace.
维持和平比缔造和平好。
We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
我们并不总是知道自己的愿望。
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
想要别人服从,就必须知道如何指挥。
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
神要灭绝的人,必先叫他发狂。
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
伟大的灵魂有意志;弱者只有愿望。
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
当人们想要使用借口时,借口是不需要的。
Making wishes on stars, she's a dreamer and she knows it.
对着星星许愿,她是个梦想家,她知道这一点。
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
我一向尊重艺术家的意愿。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
一个年轻人想要保持一个健全的无神论者再怎么小心他的阅读。
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
小时候,我的梦想骑在你的愿望上,我是你的儿子,高高骑在你的马背上,我的心一顶被你的花言巧语鞭打,当然刮风了。
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
当一个人真心希望做正确的事情时,很难知道该做什么。
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
黄金是一种财富,拥有它的人在这个世界上做他想做的一切,并成功地帮助灵魂进入天堂。
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
同样地,任何想要了解神圣作家思想的人,必须先净化自己的生活,并通过模仿圣人的行为来接近他们。
A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe.
一个坏妻子希望丈夫的脚后跟是向家的,而不是脚趾。