A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
格言
Maxim
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
年轻人说格言是不合适的。
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
人生格言:你教会别人如何对待你,你就会在生活中得到怎样的对待。
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
没有什么比一位伟大但已过世的将军的格言更能安慰军人的心灵了。
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
把专制权力的萌芽扼杀在萌芽状态,这是唯一能够维护任何民族自由的格言。
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
正确理解和运用有价值的格言需要天才;一种至关重要的占用心智的活动,与最初创造它的人密切相关。
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
人民的声音据说是上帝的声音;而且,无论这句格言被引用和相信的程度有多普遍,它都不符合事实。人民是动荡多变的,他们很少判断或决定正确的。