Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

一个男人和他的妻子之间,除了爱,没有什么可以支配。权柄是给孩童和仆人的,却不是不可爱的。

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

但是,一些天才被嘲笑的事实并不意味着所有被嘲笑的人都是天才。他们嘲笑哥伦布,嘲笑富尔顿,嘲笑莱特兄弟。但他们也嘲笑小丑博佐。

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

这个世界不是在寻找仆人,有很多这样的人,而是在寻找主人,这些人形成了自己的目标,然后实现了它们,让结果顺其自然。

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

我可以肯定的一件事是,如果我在音乐上做过什么好事,首先是因为我的父亲,其次是因为我的妻子。

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

既然我们不能对任何事情都了如指掌,我们就应该对所有事情都略知一二。

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

很难说政客为什么被称为仆人,除非是因为很难找到一个好仆人。

Never give meaning to a little act of sweetness. It might give you a wrong impression or expectation.

永远不要为小小的甜蜜举动赋予意义。它可能给你一个错误的印象或期望。

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

男人的妻子是他对初恋情人幻想的妥协。

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

幽默是当你应该拥有时,却没有得到,却嘲笑它。

The sweetness of a kola nut doesn't lie in its sugar content.

科拉果的甜味并不在于它的含糖量。

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

权势认为牺牲者的痛苦是忘恩负义。