Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人,会被别人的笑话逗乐。

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

每一位艺术家总有一天会面对这样一个时刻:当风格过去,艺术世界的热寻机器已经前进时,他或她还在做着他或她所做的事情。

Against Santana, you know you've got to bear down in every at-bat. Because if you don't, not only will he own you, but he'll make you look bad, too.

对桑塔纳的比赛中,你知道你必须在每一个击球点上都全力以赴。因为如果你不这样做,他不仅会拥有你,还会让你看起来很糟糕。

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

一个理性的人不应该被认为是偶然遇到理性的人,而应该是一个知道理性、能够判断理性、并对理性有真正品味的人。

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

有两种公司,一种努力提高收费,另一种努力降低收费。我们将是第二个。

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

大多数人最大的弱点是,当他们活着的时候,他们不愿意告诉别人他们有多爱他们。

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

永远不要怀着身孕去参加高中同学聚会,否则他们会认为你毕业后就只做这些了。

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

任何传递给潜意识的想法,只要足够多,足够令人信服,最终都会被接受。

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

我认为在某种程度上,至少有一件事能让你长生不老是件好事,你知道吗?

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

他们似乎突然间找到了幸福,好像他们在冬天的树林里捉到了一只蝴蝶。

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

战争是政治家的游戏,是牧师的乐趣,是律师的笑话,是受雇刺客的职业。

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

我们大多数人都能读到不祥之兆;我们假设是寄给别人的。

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

通过帮助别人成功,你可以最快最好地成功,这是千真万确的。

All dogs know what most humans don't that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

所有的狗都知道大多数人不知道的事情,那就是享受生活。

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

什么时候人类才能被说服并同意通过仲裁来解决他们的困难?

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

头脑有时应该转移一下,以便能回到更好的思考中去。

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

同意和做这种事的人将受到同等的惩罚。

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

最难忍受的事,记得最甜。

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

艺术是使我们认识真理的谎言。

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

除了传说,历史还能是什么?

Jests that give pains are no jests.

给人痛苦的笑话不是笑话。