I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

  • -- William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚

宁可被锈死,也不愿被永磨净尽。

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I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

我绝对拒绝我事业的名声部分。我甚至拒绝我的生意的金钱方面。我尽我所能做好工作,我努力在我的艺术中成长,追求真理。这就是我想从我的艺术中得到的,这就是我渴望的。

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢,同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错,那他是很难找到的。

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

人们总是说,哦,好吧,他受了那么多苦,死了会更好。但事实并非如此。你总是生活得更好。

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

像他那样跟你打架的人,不比机会主义者好,也不比暴徒差。

A woman's sword is her tongue, and she does not let it rust.

女人的剑是她的舌头,她不让它生锈。