A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
智慧
Wit
What is a man but his mind?
一个人除了他的思想还能是什么?
The criticism of a blind man.
对盲人的批评。
The more wit the less courage.
智慧越多，勇气越少。
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
不得体是智慧的灵魂。
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
艺术是如此博大，人类的智慧是如此狭隘。
Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.
就像披着和服的磨盘。
A bean-jam rice cake into the open mouth.
把一个豆果酱年糕放进张开的嘴里。
Use your wit as a shield, not as a sword.
用你的智慧做盾牌，而不是剑。
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
自负比机智更能引起交谈。
The covers of this book are too far apart.
这本书的封面相隔太远。
Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.
分析是思想的灵魂，智慧的幽灵。
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
智慧是谈话的调味品，而不是食物。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
谁不会为了权力和美而放弃智慧呢?
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
挑起智慧之鞭的人，不能抱怨自己因此而受到伤害。
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
俏皮话只要我们把它们限制在一定范围内，就会让人高兴，但如果我们把它们推得太过，就会引起冒犯。
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
在日常交谈中，有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
她善于引用别人的话，这是机智的有力替代品。
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
因为那些智慧成为罪恶之母的人，那些智慧教育他们在所有的事情上都是邪恶的。