Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  • -- William Wordsworth 威廉·华兹华斯

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

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What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

经常发生的事情是——虽然我不是这种事情的特别受害者——有人会引用,或发明一个评论,然后被印出来,最后在网上成为货币。其中一些非常奇怪!

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

我已经慢慢地拥有了这样的能力。我接受当时的意见。我不想像他们。但我把它们融入一个生动的头脑。

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your garden and decorate your own soul.

不要等着别人给你送花。种植你的花园,装饰你自己的灵魂。

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年,而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

我的想象中没有比继续为艺术而活更美好的幸福了。

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

我的女主人公们,往往是那些陷入困境和反抗的人。

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

我们的房子越开明,它们的墙壁就越会渗出鬼魂。

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

一位父亲带着他的钱曾经在哪里的照片。

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

我不能拍绿色起伏的山丘。

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

庆祝你想看到更多的东西。

I drink no more than a sponge.

我只喝一块海绵。