“Things that can't go on forever, don't.” – Herbert Stein, former chairman of the US presidential Council of Economic Advisers
Keynes once wrote that the inevitable never happens, it is always the unexpected.
凯恩斯曾写道，不可避免的事情从不会发生，发生的总是意想不到的事情。
if we don't have the money for something we want, we don't need it!
You don’t know when it will happen, but you just wait for the fat pitches within your circle of competence.
To focus on what you don’t have is a terrible mistake.
I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be. One of your most important jobs in life will be raising your children. They will learn more from you than they will in graduate school. My father was a huge influence, and later on Graham came along. I was also never let down by my heroes.
Finding the right spouse is 90% of it. If you are lucky on health and lucky on your spouse, you are a long way home.
The philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, put it acerbically: “When imputed organisational skill and power are deployed and the desired effect follows, all that we have witnessed is the same kind of sequence as that to be observed when a clergyman is fortunate enough to pray for rain just before the unpredicted end of a drought!”
You are what you eat. A French author : Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Latin proverb: Eat well, drink moderation, and sleep sound, in these three health abound.
Comedy is tragedy happening to someone else.
golden rule:
亚当?斯密(Adam Smith)的格言：看不见的手需要有合适的法律和监管框架的支持。
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me, as they say in America
愚弄我一次，是你的耻辱；愚弄我两次，是我的耻辱。
Education for education sake.
As Karl Popper observed, to predict the creation of the wheel is to invent it.
John Maynard Keynes observed, it is usually better to be conventionally wrong than unconventionally right.
People are so busy documenting the moment, they forget to live in it.
East and west, home is the best.
We are not out of the woods yet.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
Adversity makes strange bed-fellows 人们因为同处逆境而可能走到一条路上。
All cats are grey in the dark. 在有的情况下，难分辨贤愚忠奸。
All good things must come to an end.世上无不散的宴席。
All ships rise with the tide.
All system go. 发射登月火箭的用语。一切就绪。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Always be nice to people on your way up; you may meet them (again) on your way down.
Always read the small(fine) print.在订立合同时，除弄清协议条款外， 还应该阅读附则。
An army marches on its stomach. 兵马未动，粮草先行。
...and lived happily ever after.
April showers bring forth May flowers.四月的阵雨催开了五月的花。
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Attack (offence) is the best form of defence.
Bad news travel fast.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.情人眼里出西施。
Beauty is only skin deep.
Beggers cannot be choosers.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.(Balzac)
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
Better late than never.
Better safe than sorry.(做一件事应以安全保险为上)
Better to wear out than rust out.宁肯磨损光，也不要让自己锈成废铁。
Between two stools one falls to the ground.想同时坐两张板凳的人是一定要跌跤的。
Big deal! = It's no big deal. 算什么大买卖。（别拿鸡毛当令箭）
Big fish, small pond.
The birds (chicken)have come home to roost.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood will tell.遗传的因子总是要在后辈身上反映。
Boys will be boys.打闹滋事，不会太文静。
Girls will be girls. 小事小非，小摩擦不断。
Business before pleasure.事业在前，享受在后。
Buy low and sell high.
The cards are decked against us.这是用打牌来比喻人生。你跟人打牌，要是对方将整副牌都事先“砌”好了，你当然必输。
Charity begins at home.
The check is in the mail。支票已经寄出。这是一句拒付时推诿的话。
The chips are down. 筹码（赌注）已经押上。
Civility costs nothing.
Clothes make the man.
Copy from one, It's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
A creaking door, hangs longest.
Curses, like chicken, come home to roost.
The customer is always right.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.因地制宜。
Dead men don't talk.死人不会去告密。Dead men tell no tales.
A deal is a deal.
Death pays all debts. 人死冤仇解。
Diligence is the mother of good luck.(confidence, intelligence)
Necessity is the mother of invention. 需要是发明之母
Distance lends enchantment.距离产生美
Don't call us, we'll call you.这是搪塞的话
Don't change horses in mid-stream.渡河至半不换马。 _go with (against)the stream.（不）随波逐流
Don't get mad, get even.别发火，要去回敬。
Don't react, respond.不要消极应对，应积极对应
Dream go by contraries.梦是反的。
Easy does it.只要冷静处之，事情就能办成。
Eat to live, not live to eat.
Empty vessels make the most sound.
Enough is enough.你认为对事态非加以制止不可了。=to put your foot down.
Every man hs his price.
Every little bit helps.能省一点，就省一点。
Every silver lining has its cloud.每个明亮处都有乌云。原谚语：Every cloud has a silver lining.坏事中有好的一面。
Everybody's business is nobody's business.一件事大家都管就谁也不管。
Everything in lift is a trade-off.有所得必有所失。Because time is so fair that when you do A, you can't do B.
Example is better than precept.榜样优于箴言。言传不如身教。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Extremes meet.
Famous people have lots of long-lost cousins.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.伤风感冒要吃，流感发烧要饿。
First the good news. Now (Then)the bad news.形式很好，但也有不足的一面。
First things first.要紧的事先办。
A fish always stinks from the head downwards.上梁不正下梁歪。
Fish and guests stink after three days.
The force of example is powerful.
Forewarned is forearmed.有备可以无患。
Garbage in, garbage out.(原电脑术语)
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Good question!这个问题不好回答，需好好想想。
Great minds think alike.
Half a loaf is better than none.
He may be a sonofabitch, but he is 'our sonofabitch.那个家伙是个王八蛋，但是站在我们一边。美政界用语。
He who can does(?), he who cannot teaches(?).
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 骑虎难下。
Heads will roll. 有些人要掉脑袋（说有人要被罢官）
Smoke rolled up.烟袅袅上升
History is shaped mainly by contingent event.历史住院是由偶然事件写成的。
History
History repeats itself.
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.蜜糖比醋更能粘住苍蝇。
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Humility is the worst form of conceit.(故作)谦卑是最大的傲慢
I never promised you a rose garden.我从未说过一切都会完美无缺的。
I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. 这种事我是绝不沾手的，要离得远远的。
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
If something can go wrong, it will.(Murphey's law)墨菲定律
If the shoe/cap fits, wear it.生活里如果出现某种情况，而你又无法争取到更好的结果，那就应正视。
If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind. 家无二主，国无二君。
If you battle kings, you must slay them.
If you cannot beat/lick them, join them.
If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.你若不能两面讨好，八面玲珑，就别进政界。
If you don't ask, you don't get.
If you don't like the heat, you get out of the kitchen.杜鲁门（卖领带的小贩出身）。
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.如果你用花生作酬金，你只能雇到猴子。
If you want peace, you must prepare for war.
If you want to get along, go along.谁想上得去，就得随大流=If you can't beak/lick them, join them.
If you don't work, you shan't eat.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of teh problem.有些事你很难置身事外， 你若不属于解决问题的一方， 就属于造成问题的一方。
Ignorance breeds fear.
Ignorance is bliss.无知是福。
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.仿效是最真诚的恭维。
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In the long run, we're all dead.凯恩斯，其针对过分强调长远的主张指出：“长远来看，我们都不在了。”
It ain't over until it's over.一件事必须真正有了结果，才算了解，即盖棺方可定论。在英美，受教育不多的人常用ain't 替代isn't, aren't , haven't
It doesn't take a phD to figure that out.
It is easy to be wise after the event. = You have 20/20 hindsight.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.这是一句自我检查的话，或给自己开脱的话。
It takes all sorts to make a world.有了各种各样的人，才构成了这个世界。或缩为： It takes all sorts.
It takes two to tango.一个巴掌拍不响。
It's a different ball game.现在局面已经完全两样了。
It's a jungle(zoo) out there.jungle 或zoo 指商场或大办公室。人们说：在那里（out there）,人跟人的关系，有如丛林或动物园。
It's academic(now).那已成为学术问题了，已无实际意义。
It's all water under the bridge.事情已经这样了（已经过去了） 事已至此
It's as simple as that.(It's that simple.)就那么简单。
It's dogged as does it.
It's easier to pull down than to build up.破时容易，立时难。
It's later than you think.不要以为你有的是时间。即，如不赶紧就会失去机遇，再也追不回来。
It's
It's one of those days.如果有一天你事事不顺，就可以用这句话：今天是一个那样的日子。
It's one of those things. 我都不知道怎么会做出那样的事。或， 我也不知道怎么会碰上那样的事。
It's the tip of the iceberg. 事情的真相还未揭开。
The jury is still out. 陪审团还没有回到法庭上。（一件事尚未定论）
Keep your fingers crossed. 将中指和食指叠在一起， 这一动作表示希望有好运气。
Keep your nose clean. 规规矩矩， 别给自己惹麻烦。即管好自己的事情。
Knowledge is power. The more you know, the more you need to know, the more you learn, the more you need to learn.
Laws are made to be broken.即世上没有一成不变，万世不移的法律。
Laziness is the father of invenion. 偷懒，要舒服，才导致发明。
Let the chips fall where they may. 听其自然。The chips are down. 筹码（赌注）已经押上，要撤回已不可能。
Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.车到山前必有路。
Let' face it.
A liar ought to have a good memory.说谎的人需要有好记性。
Liberty is not license.自由不等于胡来。
Live and let live.不要逼人太甚。
Life is too short.
Life is unfair.生活就是不公平的。
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
A little bird told me.有人告诉我， 但不能说出去。
Love is blind.
Love means never having to say you are sorry.
Many hands make light work.人多好办事。Too many cooks spoil the borth.厨师太多坏了汤。
Money begets money.钱能生钱。
Money has no smell. 钱是没有气味的。The greedy pursuit of money.
Money is the root of all evils.
Money makes the world go around.
Money talks.
Murder will out. 秘密总会败露的。
My county，right or wrong!
My lips are sealed.
My son is my son till he gets a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
A new broom sweeps clean.新扫帚扫得干净。新官上任三把火。
New lords, new laws.
Nice guys finish last.好人总是跑在最后.The good die young.
No news is good news.
Not quite quite.英谚语，说一个人的举止，品性，不那么入流。
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Old custom die hard.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
One man's bane is another man's delight.=One man's meat is another man's poison.
One month does not a trend make.
One swallow does not a summer make.
One of these days is none of these days.
Optimism is the mother of victory.
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Patriotism is the refuge of scoundrels.
A picture is worth
Politics is the art of compromise.
Politics is the art of
Politics is the art of repackaging.
艾柯（Umberto Eco）在《色情电影之真谛》中说：到电影院去看电影，如果主人公从A地到B地花费的时间超出你愿意接受的程度，那么你看的就是一部色情片。（由此可见，色情与否一定程度上还是取决于主观，即观者，比如小时候看红楼，只看有爱情情节的。）
周星星的台词：“我是一个感情很复杂的人，一个感情很复杂的人如果只爱一个人的话，就会变得感情有缺陷，一个感情有缺陷的人，你就算永远地拥有他，也是没用的。”
伏尔泰说，"人人手持心中的圣旗，满面红光走向罪恶。"荷尔德林说，"总是使一个国家变成人间地狱的东西，恰恰是人们试图将其变成天堂。"
曾经写过一些东西纪念坦普顿----当时他的去世让我感触挺多。个人感觉，宗教、世界观这类东西是大格局观，是根本。根本对了，心才能正，或淡然，或坚守...-...也只有"心"正了"术"才能对。其次，世界观决定财富观。决定我们如何攫取财富，又打算如何花掉它们。
The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so
conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to
learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those
who disagree with them----Templeton.
圣严法师：“面对它、接受它、处理它、放下它”。
macroeconomists have simply discarded the difficult stuff to make their models more elegant: “They took these non-linear stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models into the basement and beat them with a rubber hose until they behaved.”
宏观经济学家们为了把自己的模型做得更漂亮，完全摒弃了其中的难点：“他们把那些非线性随机动态一般均衡模型拿到地下室用橡胶水管鞭打，一直打到它们听话为止。”
Those confused should recall P.J. O'Rourke's explanation of the difference between the two: microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things that they are wrong about generally.
到困惑的读者应该回忆一下P?J?欧鲁克(P?J?O'Rourke)对二者不同之处的解释：微观经济学关注经济学家所犯的具体错误，宏观经济学则关注他们所犯的一般性错误。
银行只是一个简单的产物。它仅仅是一座架在借方和贷方之间的桥梁。“信贷关系给银行下了定义，”他说。“所有这些元素必须得到平衡。这就是银行生存的方式。”
撒切尔夫人知道，政治如法律，陪审团要的是动机和意图。所以她才会告诉菲利普?拉金(Philip Larkin)，她最喜爱的他的诗句是：“你敞开思想，仿佛装满了刀子的抽屉。”
Lady Thatcher knew that in politics, as in law, the jury seeks motive and intent. This is why she told Philip Larkin that her favourite line of his poetry was: “Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.”
J?K?加尔布雷思(J.K. Galbraith)所说：“对公民自由的最大限制就是身无分文。”
J. K. Galbraith said: “The greatest restriction on the liberty of the citizen is a complete absence of money.”
葛林兄曾说过，人心中有些地方原先是不存在的，要到受苦进入之后才出现。葛林兄是受外遇不伦之苦。而他，若没有第三代，他一直认为自己是冷淡无情的人，错了。
他想把话语扭往另一个方向，但话语已有了它自己的出路而走向前方。
“每当你想要批评什么人的时候。”他对我说，“你切要记得这个世界上的人并非都具备你禀有的条件。”
亚里士多德就说过“人人都在寻找快乐，得到永久快乐的唯一方法就是对他人有用！”
“虚构比纪实更真实。”当时马上联想到的是王尔德的名言：Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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