Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

  • -- Sydney J. Harris 悉尼J.哈里斯

几乎没有人愚蠢到认为自己在任何领域都理所当然地应该获得巨大成功;然而,几乎所有人都认为,他理所当然地应该在婚姻中获得成功。

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We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

我们接受它,因为我们看到了愿景。我们知道我们不能收割,但我们希望我们能如此精心地准备土地,如此勤奋地播种种子,以便我们的后继者能够收获成熟的谷物。

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

我不相信那句老话:好事只会发生在耐心等待的人身上。我认为好事会降临到那些如此渴望得到某样东西而不能坐以待毙的人身上。

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

在这片土地上,如果有人完全相信温顺的人将继承这片土地,那么他们通常不会让人知道他们的存在。

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

我本可以再打一年,但我会为了钱而打球,棒球理应得到更好的待遇。

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

相信一个人应该得到辩护,并不等同于在你的权力范围内做任何事让他免受惩罚。

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

结婚的时候,每个人都必须对自己的想法作出判断,并听取自己的意见。

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

在你能成功地与他人交朋友之前,首先你必须成为你自己的朋友。

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

婚姻是一项了不起的发明:同样,自行车修理包也是一项了不起的发明。