The world cannot live by words. Confucius and plato said the best that mortal man can say; and it had probably been said centuries before their time. From Jefferson to Franklin Roosevelt, with Longfellow, Emerson and his Boston set in between, their words have echoed in America and left us the thinly veneered savages we are. Jesus preached very eloquently that as two blacks do not make a white we had better give up punishment and revenge; but our criminal codes are none the less so barbarous that the most merciful of their implements are the electric chair and the guillotine.

Our Bibles, Korans, Vedas, Talmuds and their like are full of the wisest words; but we print them cheek by jowl with the crudest tribal idolatries; and it is on the idolatries that we act and teach our children, using the rest only to pretend we are civilized.

Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance, everywhere; that is what is wrong with us, and defeat our good intentions every time.
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail..." --Thoreau

Every so often I feel the urge to thumb through Thoreau's Walden. I do it to make sure that I am keeping my mental feet on the ground in the general confusion that grips the world today.

Of course, there are other reasons for reading Walden, but an occasional does of Henry David Thoreau's ax-like logic as applied to the problem of living is a tonic that helps me no little in these bewildering days. The lines above have always struck me with extra force. They are some of the first I underscored in my now well-worn copy of Thoreau's masterpiece.
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"The road is always better than the inn."--Cervantes

These words by the great Spanish writer, Cervantes, mean a way of living. In my younger days I often aimed too hard to reach some goal, finish some job. "When this is done," I'd say, "I shall find satisfaction and reward."

But later I came to realize that each achievement, like each inn, is only a point along the road. The real goodness of living comes with the journey itself, with the striving and desire to keep moving. Now I find that I can look back on my eighty-four years with pleasure and, what is even more important to me, that I can still look to the future with hope and desire. I have learned to take each inn along the way with a traveler's stride --not as a stopping point, but a starting point for some new and better endeavor.
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Several years ago I had occasion to help a couple of my friends to make contact with Alcoholics Anonymous. In the process I was exposed to the teaching and philosophy of this movement. Though I am not eligible for membership myself, I have since carried in my billfold a little folder entitled "Just for today", which was issued by the local branch of Alcoholics Anonymous. I believe it holds a message for everybody, everywhere, and everyday. My copy is dog-eared and nearly worn out, but here is what these "Words to Live By" say:

Just for today, I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

Just for today, I will be happy. This assumes to be ture what Abraham Lincoln said, that "most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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You need to support your ideas with facts and figures.

By and large, the pupils are well-behaved.
'By and large' 的意思和 'in general' 相似，表示大體上。
不能用'By and by'
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You really remind me of someone I used to know.

How can you fire me, after I've devoted my life to this company?

The professor said that, despite the growing environmental crisis, there is hope for the future.
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摘自小笨霖英語筆記本

I am so terrible. I keep skipping my classes. 我很糟糕, 常常在蹺課.

Sick and tired of something 可以視之為一個片語, 所以並沒有 sick (生病) 的意思在裏面! 例如販賣機老是吃錢, 你也可以說 I am sick and tired of this vending machine. 還有一句話也很有趣, I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired. 就是說你對於老是感到厭煩已經感到十分厭煩了, 我想這是很多都市人共同的心聲吧.
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The pilot informed the passengers that the plane was about to land.
I have to admit that I'm terrible at maths.
不能用'tell' 是不及物动词，后面不能直接跟宾语。
不能用'warn' 因为 'require' 是不及物动词，后面不能直接跟宾语。
不能用'inform' 是及物动词，需要接宾语(名词或代词)。
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文／吳凱琳 2007年8月 Cheers雜誌

和陌生人第一次見面時，要如何在一開始談話的幾分鐘內，了解這個人？如何和對方拉近距離？如何找到對方喜愛的話題？如何讓對方願意開口？

這都得依靠細心而入微的觀察力，談到這裡就不能不提最近聲名大噪的喬‧納瓦羅（Joe Navarro）。
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轉錄自小笨霖英語筆記本

The movie is terrific!
這部電影太棒了!

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2004年7月26日傍晚，美國民主黨全國代表大會在波士頓正式開幕。大會會場所在地——波士頓富裏特中心一直是NBA老牌勁旅波士頓凱爾特人隊的主場，現在成為了歡樂的海洋，成為了全美民主黨人2004年總統大選的誓師會場，4353名民主黨政要會聚一堂，正式提名克裏和愛德華茲為民主黨總統和副總統候選人，發動“倒布”總攻。當晚最精彩的一幕，是前總統克林頓和夫人希拉蕊的壓軸演講。 克林頓眼光銳利、思維流暢，演講內容環環相扣、一氣呵成,，許多人被深深打動,克林頓的此次登臺，真的是讓人從心眼裏覺得，他天生就是一個“政治人物”。

Bill Clinton's address
at 2004 Democratic National Convention

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轉錄自李開發的個人空間

1863年，離今天還不到150年的美國歷史中，卻在一個叫葛底斯堡的不知名的小地方發生了一場戰役。這場戰役因為林肯發表了不到兩分鐘的演說，而成為舉世聞名的地方；更因為被孫中山加以引用和發揮，對中國歷史或說現代史，產生重大影響。這不能不說是個很有趣的事情。
　　（中文演講詞）
　　林肯在葛底斯堡戰場的演說
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