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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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

我们发现,最令人兴奋的环境,对人很好的环境,也像钉子一样坚硬。没有官僚主义的胡言乱语……优秀的公司同时提供两件事:艰难的环境和非常支持性的环境。

What has influenced my life more than any other What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

对我的生活影响最大的不是一个人的智力和身体的衰退,而是一个人的记忆的负担。

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

我不是说想就想,而是用我的方式思考。不要害怕阴影,尤其是那种把半个世界都束缚在正统观念上的巨大的个人不幸幽灵。

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

头脑可以是充实的。在这种情况下,如果没有别的事情发生,即使是一件不大愉快的事情,也会和一件大事一样多。

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

清教徒憎恨熊的引诱,不是因为它给熊带来痛苦,而是因为它给观众带来快乐。

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

所有的幸福或不幸都完全取决于我们所爱之物的性质。

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

老年是愤怒的绝佳时机。我的目标是每周至少说或做一件令人发指的事情。

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

当我创作艺术时,我想到它与他人联系的能力,把他们带入这个过程。

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

癌症是最好的均衡器。每个人都受到它的影响,要么是自己,要么是通过所爱的人。

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。

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

所谓死亡,是一件使人哭泣的事情,然而生命的三分之一是在睡梦中度过的。

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

聪明的人懂得底线并不总是他们的首要任务。

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

我有一个哥哥最近去世了,一个姐姐和一个弟弟。

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。

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

人们醉心于工作,所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

一个小男孩读到爸爸从来没有爱过妈妈,一定是什么感觉?

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

总有人会打破你的记录。重要的是你如何生活。

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

没有怨恨思想的人一定会找到安宁。

The state was made for man, not man for state.

国家为人而生,人不为国家而生。

Jests that give pains are no jests.

给人痛苦的笑话不是笑话。

History is fables agreed upon.

历史是大家都同意的寓言。