Celebrity Stories 3

When Mark Twain was young, he worked for a newspaper, and after six months, the editor-in-chief told him he didn't have to come back tomorrow. Mark Twain asked why? The editor-in-chief said: Because you are too lazy. It took you six months to realize that I was lazy, but I knew it the first day I joined the paper.

Yang Xiu, a close official of Cao Cao in the Later Han Dynasty, was very smart at the age of nine. One day he was met by his father, Kong Pingtan, who was visiting him. He prepared plums for him, and when he saw them, Kong asked, "Is this your family's fruit? Yang Xiu immediately replied, "I've never heard of peacocks being your family's poultry!

When Su Shi was the magistrate of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty, a citizen of the county made a living by making fans, but it was too cold to sell them, so he owed taxes. Dongpo asked him to take the fans and paint them with dead wood, bamboo and rocks on them, and he painted more than 20 fans. He paid off all the taxes he owed.

The Italian Renaissance painter Rafael painted a portrait of Mary holding the Son of Jesus, with an old man at the bottom right and a maid at the bottom left. But there was a large blank space at the bottom, and he was trying to figure out what to fill in. At that moment, he saw two children from the window of the nearby bakery, the older one was about four or five years old, looking up at the clouds and talking to his brother, and the younger one, with his head resting on his arms, was also looking at the sky, listening to his brother. Raffaele thought it was beautiful, so he painted them on the bottom of the painting and added wings, making them two angels.

＊Some people asked Raffaele how he could paint such beautiful works. He replied, "I had many dreams, and then I painted around my dreams. Fantasy enables one to see the invisible, and will enables the invisible to become a visible entity.

Einstein presented his view of success in life at a press conference. He expressed it in a mathematical formula: Suppose A represents a person's success, then I can write the following formula A = X + Y + Z. X represents work, Y represents play. The reporter asked: What does Z stand for? Einstein smiled and replied: Z is to keep your mouth shut.

The Finnish conductor Boris Seibel came to the United States to perform. Mr. and Mrs. Szabo came to the United States to perform. The house they lived in was said to be haunted. One day they were woken up by the sound of a ghost. Mrs. Seibel asked her husband to check it out, but the conductor said, "No, honey, you'd better go. Because you speak English better than I do.

When Mozart was six years old, he gave his first recital at the Imperial Palace in Munich, Germany. He slipped and fell as soon as he entered the palace because the floor was smooth. A little princess came up and helped him up and kissed his hand. Mozart was so grateful that he didn't know how to thank her. He said: When I grow up, I must take you as a bride. Everyone laughed at that.

When President Truman rushed from the White House to his home town to vote in the 1948 U.S. elections, a group of journalists chased him to his home but did not see him. When we ran into the president later, one of the reporters asked him what had happened along the way, and President Truman replied: "A police car asked us to stop.

Once a news reporter asked Kennedy: How did you become a hero in World War II? JFK replied: They sank my cruiser, and I became famous. We know that JFK was aboard the DT-O VIII, which was sunk by the enemy, and he was wounded as a result.

Socrates' wife was so fierce that once she lost her temper and, after scolding Socrates, she brought a bucket of water and poured it over her husband's head. Socrates scratched his wet hair and laughed: "It is a law of nature that after the sound of thunder there will be heavy rain.

Newton was very dedicated to his studies. Once, when a friend invited him to a dinner, he remembered that he had a bottle of good wine at home, so he asked his friend to wait and go home to get the wine himself. The friend waited right and left, but Newton did not come back, so he went to see what happened. It turned out that Newton was on his way home, remembered the practice of an experiment, and when he arrived home, he plunged into the laboratory, doing experiments, forgetting all about taking wine to entertain his friend. Another time, he was hungry and boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, he put the eggs into the pot. When the problem was solved and he wanted to eat the eggs, he uncovered the pot and fished up his pocket watch.

＊Shi Ma Guang was born in the Song Dynasty into a family of government officials. From childhood, he was very resourceful and studious. At the age of 20, he was admitted to the Imperial College. He was a clean official and often used his time to read during his official duties, aspiring to write a general history that would serve as a reference for people. In order to seize the time to read, he specially made a round wooden pillow, the pillow is the wonderful use of sleep when the body as long as a roll, it will roll, people also woke up, you can continue to study, so called "police pillow". Whenever Sima Guang needed to rest, he would pillow on the "police pillow", and as a result of such study, he finally became a learned man!