校园英语名言警句

篇一：小学英语名言警句

小学英语名言警句

Birth is much, but breeding is more.

出身固然重要，教养更且重要。

Bite off more than one can chew.

贪多咽不下。

Bite the hand that feeds one.

恩将仇报。

Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.

良药苦口利於病。

Blind men can judge no colours.

不宜问道於盲。

Blood is thicker than water.

血浓於水。

Bread is the staff of life.

民以食为天。

Brevity is the soul of wit.

言以简洁为贵。

Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.

养虎贻患。

Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

投鼠忌器。

Burnt child dreads the fire.

一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

Business before pleasure.

事业在先，享乐在后。

Business is business.

公事公办。

By doing we learn.

经一事，长一智。

By falling we learn to go safely.

吃一堑，长一智。

By other's faults, wise men correct their own.

他山之石，可以攻玉。

By reading we eich the mind; by conversation we polish it. 读书可以使我门的思想充实，谈话使其更臻完美。

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.

试金石可以试金，正如黄金可以试人。

As the tree falls, so shall it lie.

自作自受。

As they sow, so let them reap.

种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

A still tongue makes a wise head.

智者寡言。

A stitch in time saves nine.

小洞不补，大洞吃苦。

A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.

身正不怕影子斜。

A straw shows which way the wind blows.

一叶便知秋。

A stumble may prevent a fall.

小惩大诫。

As you make your bed so you must lie on it.

自食其果。

As you sow you shall mow.

种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

A tall tree catches the wind.

树大招风。

A tree is known by its fruit.

观其行而知其人。

A true friend is known in the day of adversity.

疾风知劲草，患难知友情。

Avarice blinds our eyes.

财迷心窍。

Avarice increases with wealth.

越富越贪。

A wanderer who is determined to reach his destination does not fear the rain. 决心赶到目的地，浪汉何惧雨来淋。

A watched pot is long in boiling.

心急水不沸。

A wilful man will have his way.

有志者是竟成。

A word spoken is an arrow let fly.

一言既出，驷马难追。

A word spoken is past recalling.

一言既出，驷马难追。

Bad workmen often blame their tools.

拙匠常怪工具差。

Beauty is but skin-deep.

红颜易变。

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

情人眼里出西施。

Beauty lies in lover's eyes.

情人眼里出西施。

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

口蜜腹剑。

Before gold, even kings take off their hats.

有钱能使鬼推磨。

Beggars cannot be choosers.

饥不择食。

Beggars must be no choosers.

饥不择食。

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

塞翁失马，焉知非福。

Be honest rather clever.

诚实比聪明更要紧。

Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.

随遇而安。

Be just to all, but trust not all.

要公正对待所有的人，但不要轻信所有的人。

Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.

眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。

Be slow to promise and quick to perform.

不轻诺，诺必果。

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

多听少说。

Better an empty purse than an empty head.

宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。

Better an open enemy than a false friend.

明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

Better good neighbours near than relations far away.

远亲不如近邻。

Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.

功亏一篑。

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

脚踏两头要落空。

Beware beginnings.

慎始为上。

Big mouthfuls ofter choke.

贪多嚼不烂。

Bind the sack before it be full.

做事应适可而止。

Birds of a feather flock together.

物以类聚，人以群分。

A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.

适可而止，过犹不及。

All covet, all lose.

贪多必失。

All is fair in war.

兵不厌诈。

All is not gold that glitters.

闪光的东西并不都是黄金。

All roads lead to Rome.

条条道路通罗马。

All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.

有情人终成眷属。

All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.

机会失去不再来，千贯万贯难赎回。

All things are easy that are done willingly.

做事乐意，诸事容易。

All things are obedient to money.

有钱能使鬼推磨。

A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.

少女有了许多求婚者往往选中了最差的一个。

A man apt to promise is apt to forget.

轻诺者易忘。

A man can not spin and reel at the same time.

一心不能二用。

A man cannot whistle and drink at he same time.

一心不能二用。

A man has two ears and one mouth that he may hear much and speak little.

人有两只耳朵一张嘴，就是为了多听少说话。

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

路遥知马力，日久见人心。

A man may dig his grave with his teeth.

祸从口出。

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.

牵马到河易，强马饮水难。

A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge.

有宝何必人前夸。

A match will set fire to a large building.

星星之火，可以燎原。

Ambition never dies until there is no way out.

不到黄河心不死

A miss is as good as a mile.

失之毫厘，差之千里。

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

山中无老虎，猴子称霸王。

A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

远亲不如近邻。

An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.

狗嘴里吐不出象牙。

An evil chance seldom comes alone.

祸不单行。

A new broom sweeps clean.

新官上任三把火。

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

一日之计在於晨。

An old physician, and a young lawyer.

医生年老的好，律师年轻的俏。

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

乐观的人在灾难中看到希望；悲观的人在希望中看到灾难。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

预防胜於治疗。

Answer a fool according to his folly.

以其人之道，还治其人之身。

penny saved is a penny earned.

省钱就是赚钱。

Apparel makes the man.

马靠鞍装，人靠衣装。

Appearances are deceitful.

人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。

A road of a thousand miles begins with one step.

千里之行始於足下。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。

As a man sows, so he shall reap.

种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

A secret between more than two is no secret.

两人以上知道的秘密就不算秘密。

A servant is known by his master's absence.

主人不在可以看出仆人的品行来。

A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.

缄默的嘴，真诚的心，是世界上最令人赞美的东西。

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

星星之火，可以燎原。

A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.

人要衣装，佛要金装。

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

平静的海洋练不出熟练的水手。

A sow, when washed; returns to the muck.

江山易改，本性难移。

As the old cock crows, so doth the young.

有其父必有其子。

A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.

做贼心虚。

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

拙匠常怨工具差。

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

篇二：英语教育名言警句

英语教育名言警句

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)

教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯 H B)

And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)

勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)

Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)

与其不受教育，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)

所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采 F W)

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)

教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢 H)

Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)

教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金 J)

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)

教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)

Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)

教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得 O)

Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)

教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞 H)

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)

教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉 G M)

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)

教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝 B W)

Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)

教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)

Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)

教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特.W.)

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)

教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使；容易管理，却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)

Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)

每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋 E)

Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)

身教胜于言教。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊 S)

For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece. (Anton P.Chekhrv, Russian dramatist)

一个受过教育的人，不懂外语是极不方便的。(俄国剧作家 契克夫 A P)

Genius without educaton is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)

未受教育的天才，犹如矿中之银。(美国总统 富兰克林 B)

How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the mere rudiments of education , to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests! (John Hey, British Cardinal Newman)

受到初步的基础教育之后，对于愿意独立思考的人来说，在图书馆里信手取下一本书来，根据个人的天赋随意涉猎，这该是多大的好处啊！(英国纽曼红衣主教 享利 J)

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. (Robert Moses, American state govenment officer)

我早已抛弃了这种观念：高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必由之路。知识的“温室”并不总能生长可供食物用的粮食。(美国州政府官员 摩西 R)

Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent. (Plato, ancient Greek Philosophe)

初期教育应是一种娱乐，这样才更容易发现一个人天生的爱好。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

Men of privilege without power are waste material, Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. (H.V.Dyke , American writer and ducator)

享有特权而权力的人是废物。受过教育而没有影响的人是一文不值的垃圾。(美国作家、教育家 戴克 H V)

Only a nation of educated people could remain free. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)

只有由受过教育的人民组成的国家才能保持自由。(美国总统杰斐逊.T.)

Only the educated are free. (Epictetus, Ancient Greek philosopher)

只有受过教育的人才是自由的。(古希腊哲学家 爱比克泰德)

Plato is dear to me , but dearer still is truth. (Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher)

吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。(古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes, American educator)

教育的目的是用能工巧匠接受新思想的头脑去取代一个空虚的灵魂。(美国教育家 福布

斯 M)

The education of a man never completed until he dies. (Robert Edwad Lee, American educator)

对一个人的教育，至死方止。(美国教育家，李 R E)

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. (J.Agell, Amercian psychologist)

教育最主要的目的，不是教你挣得面包，而是使每一口面包都香甜。(美国心理学家 安吉尔 J)

The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (R.Hutchins, American educator)

教育的目的在于能让青年人毕生进行自我教育。(美国教育家 哈钦斯 R)

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristtle, Ancient Greek Philosopher)

教育的根是苦的，但其果实是甜的。(古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)

The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician)

大学提供信息，但它是富于想象力地提供信息。(英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 A N)

We should put aside and postpone all other reforms; that we have but one task-----the istruction of the people, the diffusion of education, the ecourgement of science----on that day a great step will have then been taken in our rgenerion. (Leon Gambetta, French educator)

我 们应该把一切改革先放下。我们只有 一项任务，就是教育人民，普及知识、倡导科学。这一天到来之时，便是我们振国兴邦之日。(法国教育 爱甘必大 L)

What is in a name ?That which we call a rose by any other name would smell and sweet. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

名字有什么关系？把玫瑰花叫做别的名称，它还是照样芳香。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)

What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to the soul. (Joseph Adison, British writer)

教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。(英国作家 阿狄生 J)

You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. (Finley Peter Dunne, America humorous wrter)

你可以把一个人领进大学，但你却无法使他思考。(美国幽默作家 邓恩 F P)

经典英语名言警句

1． Pain past is pleasure.

过去的痛苦就是快乐。

2． Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.

脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。

3． Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

心之所愿，无所不成。

4． All things are difficult before they are easy.

凡事必先难后易。

5． Great hopes make great man.

伟大的理想造就伟大的人。

6． God helps those who help themselves.

天助自助者。

7． Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.

四个简短的词汇概括了成功的秘诀：多一点点！

8． In doing we learn.

实?げ鸥伞?/P>

9． East or west, home is best.

东好西好，还是家里最好。

篇三：英语名言警句集锦

英语名言警句集锦

1. All things in their being are good for something.

天生我才必有用。

2.Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people

困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

3.Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine

失败乃成功之母。

4.For man is man and master of his fate.

人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

5.The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底

6.None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

7.Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon

命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松

8.Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金

9.What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot

没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 ? 埃略特

10.Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- Lincoln

卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

11.There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克

12.The good seaman is known in bad weather.

惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

13.Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman

不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼

14.Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving

人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。 -- 欧文

15.An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森

16.While there is life there is hope.

一息若存，希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语

17.Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. --

A. Einstein

不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦

18.You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林

19.Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.

不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。

20? We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King

我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。 -- 马丁 ? 路德 ? 金

21.Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin.

能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林

22.Nothing seek, nothing find.

无所求则无所获。

23.Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle

生命不止，奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔

24.A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.

千里之行，始于足下。

25.Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.

只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。

26.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw 在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。 -- 萧伯纳

27.A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 --

28.He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe

谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。-- 歌德

29.Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore

胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。 -- 穆尔

30.Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.

人往高处走，水往低处流。

31.Man errs as long as he strives. – Goethe

失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德

32.The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.

尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的

33.A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 -- 巴勒斯

34.Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )

历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家 培根..)

35.The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. (William Shakespeare)

人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. .)

36. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin Roosevelt , American president )

我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F.)

37.Goals determine what you’re going to be .

人生的奋斗目标决定你将来成为怎样的人。

高中生名言警句-商务篇

A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship. (John Davision Rockefeller, American businessman)

建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。(美国实业家 洛克菲勒 J D.)

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it. (Leacock Stephen, Canadian economist)

广告可被视为一种长久蒙蔽人类智慧以期从中赚钱的技巧。(加拿大经济学家 斯蒂芬 L)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler, British writer)

世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望，要把支出超过收入，此乃一切进步的动力。(英国作家 勃特勒. S.)

Avarice , the apur of industry. (David Hume, Bdritish Philosopher)

贪婪是工业的兴奋剂。(英国哲学家 休谟 D)

Business? That's very simple---- it's other people's money. (Alexandre Dumas, French novelist)

做生意吗？ 那太简单了——叫别人掏钱包。(法国小说家 小仲马 A)

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life, Witness the fact that in the Lord's prayer the first petition is for daily bread, No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stoach. (Woodrow Wilson. American President)

生活包括精神生活的基础。不容置疑的事实是，在主祷文中向上帝祈求的第一件事是让我们天天有面包。没有人能饿着肚子敬奉上帝或热爱他的邻居。(美国总统 威尔逊 W.)

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to damned, and no body to be kicked? (Edward Thurlow, British Lawyer)

公司既没有灵魂可以被诅咒，又没有躯体可以被踢翻，难道你指望它有什么良心吗？(英国律师 瑟洛杉矶 .E.)

Economy the poor man's mints; extravagance the rich man's pitfall.(Martin Tupper. American economist.)

节约是穷人的造币厂，浪费是富人的陷阱。(美国经济学家 塔珀 .M.)

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. (Charles E. Wilison American president of GM)

多少年业，我始终认为对国家有利的事对我们通用汽车公司也有利，反之亦然。(美国通用汽车公司总裁 威尔逊 C.E.)

Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising, In good times people want advertising; in bad times they have to. (Bruce Barton British economist)

管是繁荣时期还是萧条时期，广告总会存在。繁荣时，人们想做广告；萧条时，人们不得不

做广告。(英国经济学家 巴顿 B.)

Here's the rule for bargains "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true precept. (Charles Dickens. British novelist)

这里有一条交易法则：“欺骗他人，因为他们也欺骗你。”这是真正的经商之道。(英国小说家 狄更斯 C)

If Enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing. (John Maynard keynes British economist)

如果企业在进展，不论节俭不节俭，财富也在衰落。(国经济学家 凯恩斯 .J.M.)

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. (Wiliam Rplph lnge, Birtish writer and churchman)

当文学一半成为贸易，一半成为艺术时，那是它最繁荣的时期。(英国作家和牧师 英奇. W.R. )

Men trifle with their business and their politics, but they never trifle with their games. (George Burnard Shaw British dramatist)

男人拿生意和政治当儿戏，可是他们玩起来却从不当儿戏。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 .G.)

Necessity never makes a good bagain. (Benjamin Franklim, American Pesident) 急需难买便宜货。(美国总统富兰克林 B)

The best cure for the national economy would beeconomy. (Ashoey Cooper, British novelist)

拯救国家经济的最好办法就是节约。(英国小说家 库珀 A)

The trouble with the profit system has always been that is was highly unprofitable to most people. (E.B.White, American writer)

利润制度的最大弊端始终是绝大多数的人是绝对无利可图的。(美国作家 怀特 E B)

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. (Disraeli, British statesman) 没有效率就没有经济。(英国政治家 狄斯雷利)

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her in-telligence if you