1974.The summer vacation is winding down now. Get serious with your study. Don’t read newspaper. Glance at the headlines or listen to the radio to keep up on news. 暑假很快就要过去了，要认真读书了，不要阅读报纸，看看标题即可，或者听下收音机，大致了解一下新闻即可。
1975.Eliminate television entirely from your home. You will be amazed at how much more time you suddenly have and how little you miss it. 把电视机从家里扔出去，你会惊讶你的时间忽然充裕，而且你也不会留恋看电视。
1976.The difference between successful people and unsuccessful ones is that the successful ones do the jobs the unsuccessful ones don’t like to do. 成功者与失败者的区别就在于失败者不愿干的活，成功者都愿意去干。
1977.To win you have stay in the game. 要赢就得不退场。
1978.Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. 时间是免费的，但它又是无价的。人不能拥有时间，但却能使用它。人不能保存时间，但却能花费它。时间一旦失去，便一去不复返。
1979.You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. 你不能改变过去，但你却可以因过度忧虑未来而毁了现在的生活。
1980.Time goes, you say?Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go. 你说，时间在消逝？根本不是！时间永存，我们在消逝！
（人们常说，Time flies! 时间飞逝！实际上，这是错觉，是我们的生命在飞逝。）
记忆一些脑筋急转弯(Brain-teaser)对练习口语有帮助。你可以拿些脑筋急转弯作消遣，避免与人在一起时没有话题的尴尬。这里录十个常见的。
1981.The Bixby Boys
It was the first day of class and Mrs. Feldman had two identical-looking pupils, Ben and Chris Bixby, sitting together in the first row.
"You two are twins, I take it?" she asked.
"No," they replied in unison.
But a check of their records showed that they had the same parents and were born on the same day. How could this be?
the first day of class 开学第一天
identical-looking 长相一样的
in unison 齐声
a check of their records 查他们的档案
1982.What month has 28 days?
1983.What city has no people? What table can you eat?
1984.There were two ducks in front of a duck and two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?
1985.What flowers do you always wear?
1986.A doctor is about to operate on a little boy. “This boy is my son,” exclaims the doctor. The doctor is correct, yet the doctor isn’t the boy’s father. What’s going on?
1987.Which is correct: “Nine and seven is fifteen” or “Nine and seven are fifteen?”
1988.Two men play five games of checkers, and each wins the same number of games. There are no ties. How can this be?
1989.A rope ladder hangs over the side of a ship. The ladder is twelve feet long, and the rungs are one foot apart, with the lowest rung resting on the surface of the ocean. The tide is rising at six inches an hour. How long will it take before the first three rungs of the ladder are underwater?
1990.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?
两年，两千句，谢谢大家都鼓励。
1991.One mayor once said: “Parks are the breathing lungs and beating hearts for all great cities.” But we don’t have any park in our city. 有位市长曾说过：公园对于所有辉煌的城市就是呼吸的肺、跳动的心脏。但是我们城市却没有公园。
1992.Part of our knowledge we obtain direct, and part by argument. by Keynes.有部分知识是我们直接获得，有部分是透过辩论获得。（这是为什么辩论十分重要。）
1993.Don’t believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see. 不能全信所听，只能信一半所见。
1994.No man will work for your interests unless they are his. 除非你的利益也是他的利益，否则没有人会为你的利益去做事。（David Seabury）
1995.People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. 人们都征询批评，但只接受赞美。
1996.Give without remembering. Take without forgetting. 奉献无需记忆，受惠不能忘却。你帮助别人了，就及时地忘记，不要老说，你欠了我，但是别人对你的帮助，却不要忘记，中文也说，滴水之恩当涌泉相报，大概也是这个境界。
1997.When we do good, no one remembers. When we do bad, no one forgets 行善之时无人记得，失误之时无人忘怀。相当于“好事不出门，坏事传千里”之意。注意，在这个结构里，good后面省略了things。You talk crazy.也是如此结构。有位英语翻译黄心译觉得crazy是主语的表语，这是不正确的理解。如果crazy是主语的表语的话，这句话就要翻译成：你这疯子在说话。
1998.Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. (George Orwell) 任何重要的问题都会含有我们不愿面对的局面。
1999.A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character-- how he makes it and how he spends it. （James Moffatt）对一个人最大的考验莫过于他如何处理金钱：他如何去赚，他如何去花。
2000.For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。(约翰福音3：16)
2001.A tried-and-true technique to improve your English is to learn how to read fast. The faster you read, the more likely you are to remember what you’ve read. On the other hand, slow reading—plodding along word by word—inhibits understanding. 事实证明，快速阅读是提高英语的一个有效方法。你读得越快，你就越能记住所阅读的内容。另一方面，慢速阅读，就是一个词一个词地抠着去读，会阻碍理解。
2002.Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.政治家就如同尿片，二者要时常更换，原因一样。
2003.It’s important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians. The danger begins when people start admiring politicians. China and North Korea have definitely been such examples in the recent history.重要的是，人民对政治家不应有过高的评价，如果人民崇拜政治家，社会就开始面临危险了。中国和北韩是现代最为典型的例子。