A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
傻瓜
Fool
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
不会推理的人是傻瓜。不这样做的人是偏执狂。不敢做的人是奴隶。
The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own.
最大的傻瓜是只关心别人的事而不关心自己的事。
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
曾经有一段时间,一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了,但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。
A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.
蠢人想到自己幸福,比智者想到别人想到自己幸福更幸福。
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
最愚蠢的女人也能驾驭一个聪明的男人;但是需要一个非常聪明的女人来对付一个傻瓜。
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
在我看来,最聪明的人是那些一个月至少称自己为傻瓜的人。
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
第一条原则是你不能欺骗自己,你是最容易被欺骗的人。
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
生活是智者的梦想,愚者的游戏,富人的喜剧,穷人的悲剧。
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
我宁愿有个傻瓜使我快乐,也不愿有经验使我悲伤,也不愿为了经验而旅行!
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
智者立竿见影,愚者终成正果。两者都做同样的事情;只是在不同的时间。
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
如果一开始你没有成功,尝试,再尝试。然后退出。做个傻瓜是没有意义的。
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
喝酒会让人变得如此愚蠢,而人们一开始就是如此愚蠢,以至于喝酒会加重重罪。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
如果我出丑了,谁在乎呢?我不害怕任何人对我的看法。
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
逻辑的结果是愚人的稻草人和智者的灯塔。
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
没有什么比你对自己说的谎话更能愚弄你了。
A fool and his money are soon parted.
傻瓜和他的钱很快就会分开。
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
你知道,当你真的不怎么努力工作的时候,你很容易欺骗自己你在工作。我是说,我很懒。所以对我来说,我总是有借口,你知道,早点辞职,去博物馆,你知道。所以我尽我所能让自己记住这是一份工作。我有一个时间表。
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
蠢人的天堂是聪明人的地狱!