优文网

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  • -- Thomas Edward Brown 托马斯·爱德华·布朗

文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤，这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域，我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。

标签

Pleasure Invention Literature

相关名言

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really  mean anything.

生活是由微小的快乐组成的。幸福是由那些微小的成功组成的。大地震来的太不频繁了。如果你不把这些小的成功都收集起来，那么大的成功就没有任何意义。

阅读 +

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。

阅读 +

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

文学是一种职业，你必须不断向没有才华的人证明你的才华。

阅读 +

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

发现包括看到每个人都看到的，思考没有人思考的。

阅读 +

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

看在上帝的份上，如果你犯罪，就以犯罪为乐，并为快乐而犯罪。

阅读 +

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

被抓住是发明之母。

阅读 +

热门话题