You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

你必须避免把财富当人质,比如娶一个昂贵的妻子、一栋昂贵的房子,以及一种永远不会让你有时间去写你想写什么的生活方式。

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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

在任何年龄,高尔夫都是对你精神上的挑战,当你像我这么大的时候,要想让你的球技像以前一样好,是对身体上的挑战。这几乎是不可能的,但这并不能阻止你尝试去击球,在你过去经常击球的地方击球,并在你过去经常击球的地方击球。

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

女人没有什么特别的。一个男人的女人就是另一个男人的女人;有时候,一个男人的女人是另一个男人的妻子。定义有重叠,但几乎从不重合。

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

如果你想要一个好妻子,就要娶一个好女儿。

Have fun while you live, because you are going to be dead a long time.

活得开心点,因为你会活很久。