An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than a cabbage.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

理想主义者是这样的人:他看着一朵玫瑰,心想,因为它闻起来很香,所以它做的汤比卷心菜更好喝。

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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

也许女人总是比男人更接近现实:这似乎是对被剥夺理想主义的一种公正的补偿。

We lose most of our ideals not because we find them to be mistaken, but because we find if difficult to abide by them.

我们失去大多数理想,不是因为我们发现它们是错误的,而是因为我们发现很难遵守它们。