Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  • -- Lily Tomlin 莉莉·汤姆林

人类发明语言是为了满足内心深处的抱怨。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

每个人都是消费者,也应该是生产者。从体质上看,他很昂贵,需要富有。

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

我失去了很多最好的朋友……我现在要让自己满意,而不是批评,甚至不是我的朋友。

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

学者就像一本用死语言写的书。并不是每个人都能读懂。

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

如果我像我的女人一样是个男人,我会成为我的妻子。