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 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。
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
如果一个人能实现他一半的愿望,他的麻烦就会加倍。
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
我若有德行、有价值、谁不叫我存挂虑呢。
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
我不相信每个人在涉及自己意愿的情况下的判断。
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
无论我们期望从神那里得到多少祝福,他无限的慷慨总是超过我们所有的愿望和思想。
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
你想要多少并不重要。真正重要的是你有多想要它。问题的程度和复杂性并不重要,重要的是解决问题的意愿。