A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
开玩笑
Jest
Jests that give pains are no jests.
给人痛苦的笑话不是笑话。
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
生活是一个笑话;所有的事情都表明了这一点。我曾经这么想过;但现在我知道了。
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人，会被别人的笑话逗乐。
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
战争是政治家的游戏，是牧师的乐趣，是律师的笑话，是受雇刺客的职业。