Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

适度是致命的。没有什么比过度更成功的了。

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Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

摇滚乐确实试图对我造成伤害。我不想在这里谈论我过去的过分行为,尽管一些铁杆摇滚歌手可能会说,这些过分行为造就了一些伟大的唱片,但我知道自己站在哪一边。

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

不幸的是,并非完全不愿为自身利益而行动的媒体,已成功地将公众心目中的改革等同于对几乎所有其他人政治言论自由的进一步限制。

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

如果你所做的是不公正的,你就没有成功。

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

如果适度是一种错误,那么漠不关心就是一种犯罪。

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。

Economize now or suffer want later.

要么现在节俭,要么以后吃亏。