English proverbs and famous quotes: Competition and Cooperation
Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.
——Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes, or the only animal that needs to blush.
—American writer Mark Twain
Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long.
——Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest peak, but he cannot stay there for long.
—British dramatist George Bernard Shaw
You know what charm is: A way of getting the answer"yes"without having asked any clear question.
——Albert Camus
You know what glamour is: a way to get a positive answer without having to ask questions explicitly.
—French writer Camus
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody.
Everyone is the moon, with its dark side that never shows off to people.
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
——Caxton
Speak when it's time to speak, silence when it's time to be silent.
—British printer Caxton
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active, the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful, the virtuous are long-lived.
——Confucius
The wise man enjoys the water, and the benevolent one enjoys the mountain. The wise move, the benevolent one is quiet. The wise man is happy, the benevolent one lives.
- Confucius
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
——Jean Jacques Rousseau, French thinker
Patience is painful, but its fruit is sweet.
—French thinker Rousseau
In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself, add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that thia day he has seen something truly.
——Ralph Waldo Emersom, American thihker
Scholars should concentrate highly, strengthen their beliefs and pursuits, persist in silence, and continue to observe. He had to endure the neglect and blame of the people, and waited for the time when he would be overjoyed to have discovered some truth.
—Emerson, an American thinker and writer
Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise.
——William Black, British poet
To tolerate each other's shortcomings is to lead to the gates of heaven.
—English poet Blake
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
——A. Pope
Everyone makes mistakes, you can forgive others, you are a saint.
—English poet Pope
The superior man does not promote a man simply on account of his words, not does he put aside good words because of the man.
A gentleman does not raise a man by his word, nor does he speak in a way that a man speaks nonsense.
Don't impose on others what you don't desire.
Do not do to others what you do not want.
Two heads are better than one.
Three stinky cobblers, the top Zhuge Liang.
Many heads make light work.
The more help the sooner done.
Three helping one another bear the burden of six.
Three people can help each other and bear the burden of six people.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
—Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician
The only thing that can save humanity is cooperation.
—British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
—Jerry Flint, senior editor for Forbes magazine
Competition is painful and the results are enormous.
—Forbes senior editor Jerry Flint
Excerpt from "Reading Tutorials on New Concepts of College English" (Volume IV) (Editor-in-Chief Li Huatian, Wuhan University Press, June 2012)
