I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

  • -- Julius Caesar 凯撒大帝

我宁愿在村子里当第一名,也不愿在罗马当第二名。

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

我穿很多二手衣服,除非我有音乐会,然后我穿串珠和亮片的二手衣服。虽然我有一个帮我扣扣子的女人,但没有一个设计师为我设计衣服。

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

我不反对从头到尾都过同样的生活:只要求作者有优势,在第二版中改正第一版的错误。

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

一个人的目的地永远不是一个地方,而是一种看待事物的新方式。