谎言已走了半个世界,真话才在动身。
人生在世,必须善处境,万不可浪费时间,作无益的烦恼。
快乐不是一件自我存在的东西,它仅是与其他不快乐事情的一个相对比照,这就是快乐的整个情况。(Happiness ain"t a thing in itself --- it"s only a contrast with something that ain"t pleasant. That"s all it is.)
缺乏钱财是所有罪恶的根源。(The lack of money is the root of all evil.)
真正的大不敬是不尊重别人的神。(True irreverence is disrespect for another man"s god.)
每一个人生下来都拥有一项资产,它比其他所有的资产价值都高,就是他最后的一口气。(Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others --- his last breath.)
良好的教养在于隐藏我们对自己较佳的评价,以及隐藏我们对他人较差的评价。(Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.)
“名声”如同是蒸气,“声望”如同是意外,在地球上唯一可以确定的事情是被遗忘掉。(Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.)
“原则”是“偏见”的另一个名称。(Principles is another name for prejudice.)
被大胆说出的预言,从来不会被迷信的人认为是愚笨无趣的。(Prophecies boldly uttered never fall barren on superstitious ears.)
“需要”不认识任何的“法律”。(Necessity knows no law.)
当你为爱情而钓鱼时,要用你的心当作饵,而不是用你的脑筋。(When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.)
如果所有的人都是富有的,那么所有的人都是贫穷的。(If all men were rich, all men would be poor.)
经常要坦白地承认一项过失错误,这将使你的上司意料防备不及,才会给你一个机会去犯更多的错误。(Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.)
首先去取得你的事实,然后你才能够随心所欲的扭曲误解它。(Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you like.)
一个人最危险的敌人是他自己的口舌。(The deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue....)
一本怀有恶意的书籍将不会伤害到任何人,除了写作它的傻瓜。(A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it.)
预言是人类唯一一项无法经由练习而改善的技术。(Prophesying was the only human art that couldn"t be improved by practice.)
如果你收养了一只饥饿可怜的狗,并且让它舒适顺利,它将不会咬你,这便是一个人与一只狗之间最主要的差别。(If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.)
为了练习,首先神造了傻人,然后祂创造了教育委员会。(In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.)
成功之道无他﹐唯一无所知又信心十足耳。
幽默是一股拯救的力量。
真理的靴子尚未穿上,谎言就跑遍世界。
虽然在一切的成长物中,爱情看上去是最快的,究其实却最迟缓。男男女女没有一个人晓得什么是十全十潜的爱,除非一直到他们结婚了二十五年之后。(Though love seems the fastest of all growths, it is really the slowest. No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century.)
不要把事实告诉不值得的人。(Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.)
真相比小说还要不可思议。(Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.)
让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。(What gets us into trouble is not what we don"t know ,It"s what we know for sure that just ain"t so .)
每个人都是月亮,总有一个阴暗面,从来不让人看见