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Season, Henry Beston

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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. - Henry Beston 낙엽이 지고, 바람이 분다, 그리고 농촌은 서서히 여름 면옷에서 겨울 털옷으로 갈아입는다. - 헨리 베스톤 Autumn, Season, Henry Beston, 헨리 베스톤, 계절, 명언,

Bribe, Book of Proverbs

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A guilty person takes out a bribe from the pocket, thus perverting the course of justice. + Proverbs 17, 23 [17:23] A sharp look at the sly withdrawing of a bribe from the pocket and a blunt judgment on its significance. 악인은 품속에 감춘 뇌물을 받고 올바른 길을 그르친다. + 구약성경 잠언 17, 23 http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Personality, Western Proverb

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Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. - Western Proverb 개성과 인간의 관계는 향기와 꽃의 관계와 같다. - 서양속담

Decisions, Sally Reardon from Felicity

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Our best decisions come from listening to ourselves. - Sally Reardon from Felicity #19 가장 훌륭한 결정은 스스로에게 귀를 기울이는 데에서 시작합니다. - 샐리, 펠리시티 (Felicity) 미국드라마 | 1998.09.29~2002.05.22

Learning, Chinese Proverb

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不聞不若聞之,聞之不若見之,見之不若知之,知之不若行之;學至於行之而止矣。 - 中國俗談 Simplified: 不闻不若闻之,闻之不若见之,见之不若知之,知之不若行之;学至于行之而止矣。 不 bù | 聞 wén | 不 bù | 若 ruò | 聞 wén | 之 zhī | 聞 wén | 之 zhī | 不 bù | 若 ruò | 見 jiàn | 之 zhī | 見 jiàn | 之 zhī | 不 bù | 若 ruò | 知 zhī | 之 zhī | 知 zhī | 之 zhī | 不 bù | 若 ruò | 行 xíng | 之 zhī | 學 xué | 至 zhì | 於 yú | 行 xíng | 之 zhī | 而 ér | 止 zhǐ | 矣 yǐ | Not hearing is not as good as hearing, hearing is not as good as seeing, seeing is not as good as mentally knowing, mentally knowing is not as good as acting; true learning continues up to the point that action comes forth - Chinese Proverb Common: I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. Moral: You can only understand something by trying it yourself. Revised: Tell me and I [will] forget. Show me and I [will] remember. Involve me and I [will] understand. Also: You can't understand until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes. From Xun Zi (荀子 8.儒效 23). 듣지 않는 것은 듣는 것만 못하고, 듣는 것은 보는 것만 못하고,...

Appearance, Oscar Levant

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant (1906-1972) 이 연약한 외모 안에 엄청나게 모자란 인격이 존재한다. - 오스카 레반트

Beauty, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), The Little Prince 너희들은 아름답지만 공허해. 누가 너희들을 위해서 죽을 수 없을 테니까. 물론 나의 꽃도 지나가는 사람에겐 너희들과 똑같겠지. 그렇지만 나에겐 그 꽃 한송이가 너희 모두를 합친 것보다 소중해. 내가 직접 물을 준 꽃이니까. - 생텍쥐페리의 어린 왕자