Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

  • -- Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. 海伍德·坎贝尔·布鲁恩

人们在沙漠中架起了桥梁,修筑起了公路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝一颗钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

在一个人的一生中,在成功来临之前,他一定会遇到许多暂时的失败,也许还有一些失败。当失败压倒一个人的时候,最简单、最合乎逻辑的做法就是放弃。这正是大多数男人所做的。

You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.

如果你不受伤,你就永远不会勇敢。如果你不犯错,你就永远学不会。如果你不遇到失败,你永远不会成功。

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

我从来没有欺骗过任何人,因为我从来没有属于过任何人。我的独立就是我的全部财富:我不知道还有什么别的幸福。

The men, the music piercing that solitude And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed, And have forgotten since their beauty passed.

男人们,那划破孤寂和寂静的音乐,告诉我一些我做梦也没有想到的事实,自从他们的美丽消逝以后,这些事实已经被我遗忘了。

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

我们成功的程度只受我们想象力的限制,任何善意的行为,无论多么小,都不会被浪费。

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

我还没有听到一个男人就如何把婚姻和事业结合起来征求意见。

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

我以前试着和别人一起写过一次,但是没有成功。

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

女人想把爱情写成小说,男人想把爱情写成短篇小说。