Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  • -- P. G. Wodehouse 伍德豪斯

高尔夫球的突然成功就像财富的突然获得。它容易使性格不安和恶化。

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It was an experiment, and I think a successful one, in communal living. It worked largely because Auden ran it ; he was exceptionally adept at getting the necessary money out of us when it was due.

这是一个实验,我认为是成功的,在公共生活中。这在很大程度上是因为奥登在经营;他特别善于在到期时从我们这里取出必要的钱。

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

你可能会失去你的妻子,你可能会失去你的狗,你的母亲可能会恨你。这些都无关紧要。重要的是你获得了成功,获得了自由。然后你可以做任何你喜欢的。

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

我有个缺点。我完全不能全心全意地认同任何事情。无论我在做什么,我总是计划做别的事情。我宁愿旅行也不愿到达。

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

足球不能塑造性格。它消除了弱者。

Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.

贪图财富而又缺乏它;不要这样做,运气会允许的。

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

财富是显而易见的,但贫穷是隐藏的。