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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
当你弯腰系鞋带的时候,你知道你在变老,当你在下面的时候,你想知道你还能做什么。
— George Burns 乔治·伯恩斯
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更多好句 ↗Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
随着年龄的增长,一大堆令人不快的小变化堆积在一起,而与老朋友分手是其中最痛苦的变化之一。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's fun.
想象一下,整夜不睡不是因为你担心未来,而是因为它很有趣。
David Nicholls
大卫·尼克尔斯
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
当我们的记忆超过了我们的梦想,我们就变老了。
Bill Clinton
比尔·克林顿
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
我们的科学时代要求我们提供定义、测量和统计数据,以便被认真对待。然而,生活中大多数重要的事情都无法精确定义或衡量。例如,我们能定义或衡量爱、美、友谊或体面吗?
Dennis Prager
普拉格
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
当我们真正崇拜任何事物时,我们不仅爱它的明确性,也爱它的模糊性。我们陶醉于它的无形之中。
G. K. Chesterton
G.K.切斯特顿
Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
老年人靠记忆生活,年轻人靠希望生活。
Gayla Reid
盖拉·里德