A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
智慧
Wit
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。
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。
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。
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
如果你能在别人失去理智、责备你的时候保持理智。世界将属于你，世界上的一切都将属于你，更重要的是，你将成为一个男子汉，我的孩子。
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
虽然有些人说，女人天生就没有能力谨慎行事，或者她们一定要干傻事，但我决不允许这种说法。
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit."
无论文明对个人施加多大的限制，他总能找到某种方法来规避它。智慧是现代人进化出来的最好的安全阀;越是文明，越是压抑，越是需要智慧。”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
你不能把两个笨蛋变成一个聪明人。
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。
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
智慧不足，判断不足;压舱物不足，航行有余。
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
智慧必被智慧所挫败:以牙还牙。