英语人生格言精选（中英文对照版）

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead , now usually attributed by adults to children, and by childuren to adults.幸福是想象中的东西。从前，生者认为死者幸福，孩子则认为大人幸福。

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
C.Pollock ,British jutist 幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by——product.
幸福不是目的，而是一种副产品。

Happiness is not something you experience it"s something you re-member.
幸福不是你经历的事，而是你记得的事。

Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
幸福在于自知拥有幸福。

contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。

Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.
希望本身是一种幸福，也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福。

A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it it would be hell on erath.
终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
写得很好的生活和过得很好的生活几乎一样少。英语人生格言精选

Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress.
无所事事不是休息，十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。

Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment.
职业和工作在使人得到幸福与满足方面所起的作用比我们大多数意识到的要多得多。

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
如果一个社会中的大部分成员贫穷而又悲惨，这个社会就谈不上繁荣幸福。

All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.
我们得到的一切幸福都是劳动、辛苦、自我克制和学习的成果。

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed.
一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。

Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
人不进棺材，谁也称不上幸福，而至多不过是幸运。

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
在所有不幸中，最不幸的事是曾经幸福过。

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。

Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。

Happiness is a form of courage.
幸福是勇气的一种形式。

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
一个人永远不像他所想象的那样不幸，也不会像他所希望的那样幸福。

Only when a man"s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pro-nounce him happy.
只能当一个人的生命在辉煌中结束时，我们才敢说他是幸福的。

There ae two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the sceond.
人的一生有两大目标：第一，得到你想要的东西；第二，享有你得到的东西。只有最聪明的人才能实现第二目标。

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
人是自己幸福的设计者。

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers" garden.
幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边，而不能从别人的花园中采得。

Industry is fortune"s right hand, and frugality her left.
勤劳是财富的右手，节俭是她的左手。

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
要在自身找到幸福是不容易的,要在别的地方找到幸福则是不可能的。