To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  • -- John Burroughs 美国博物学家巴勒斯

对我来说,老年总是比我大十岁。

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

诗歌不是一种职业,而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间,把生活搞得一团糟。

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

因为我六个月前就已经停止节食了,我认为拿出一本这样的书很重要,一年后你在那里说,看,我还是这样。

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

我确实觉得,这一趋势正在远离年龄歧视,而是承认老年人拥有独特的声音。

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

我爱一切古老的东西;老朋友,旧时代,旧习惯,旧书,旧酒。

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

我认为艺术家的责任比人们意识到的要复杂得多。

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

十个人说话比一万个人沉默更能制造噪音。

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

我祈求上帝保佑你健康长寿。

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

我的父母是东半球无知的农民。

I love older men.

我爱年长的男人。