A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
书籍是文学的金钱，但只是科学的计数器。
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
对我来说，百科全书的魅力在于它知道——而我不需要知道。
We should believe in quality of books rather than quantity of books.
我们应该相信书的质量而不是数量。
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
对我来说，卖书或卖故事从来就不是自然而然的事。
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
只有在这个国家，我们才能了解一个人或一本书。
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
没有受过教育的人读格言书是件好事。
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
我心目中的美好时光就是创造一些东西，读一本好书。
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
要写一本真正有趣的书，一个人必须接受很多惩罚。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
我只保留我非常喜欢的书。否则我就把它们扔了。
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
青春是这样一段时光:我们发现自己放弃了一些书，但却无法释怀。
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.
我给我的书定价是我想买一本电子书的价格。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
我仍然觉得每一天都太短了，我无法去想所有的事情，我无法去散步，我无法读所有的书，我无法去见所有的朋友。
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
书不过是废纸，除非我们把睡着时获得的智慧付诸行动。当我们对生者感到厌倦时，我们可以向死者寻求安慰，因为他们在谈话中没有丝毫的乖戾、骄傲和故意。
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
我不在乎他们怎么处理我的书，只要支票兑现就行。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
你知道，他会去看不同的有趣的书，因为他希望他的角色是不同的，做不同的脸。我在他的房间里看到一本有趣的书，看起来就像他正在扮演的那个角色。是关于一只鸭子的。