A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
婚姻
Marriage
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
生活中没有什么比男女之间真正心灵的结合更美好的了。一样好吗?这就是生活本身。
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
无论谁，为了逃避婚姻和女人带来的痛苦而不愿结婚，都会走向一个致命的晚年。
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
有两种婚姻——丈夫引用妻子的话和妻子引用丈夫的话。
The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.
许多婚姻的失败是由于他们出于动物的激情而不是出于爱情而结婚。
Marriage can be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.
婚姻好比鸟笼:外面的鸟拼命想进，里面的鸟拼命想出。
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
一般来说，男人在餐桌上享用一顿美餐时比他妻子讲希腊语时更高兴。
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
任何一个聪明的女人，只要读了婚姻契约，然后付诸行动，她就应该承担所有的后果。
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
仅仅因为不爱一个男人就离婚，几乎和仅仅因为爱一个男人就结婚一样愚蠢。
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
如果丈夫和妻子清楚地认识到他们是站在同一条战线上的，许多婚姻都会变得更好。
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
当你在婚姻中做出牺牲时，你牺牲的不是彼此而是一段关系中的团结。
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
我能想象或想象到的最幸福的婚姻是一个聋子和一个瞎子的结合。
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
从你出生的那一刻起，人类的大脑就开始工作，直到你站起来在公众面前讲话，大脑才停止工作。
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
也许有好的婚姻，但没有幸福的婚姻。
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
哪里有没有爱情的婚姻，哪里就会有没有婚姻的爱情。
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
婚姻是男女之间独立平等、相互依赖、义务对等的关系。
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
再也不会!我看不出有什么结婚的理由——从来没有。我受够了。三次就够了。
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
爱情是盲目的，但婚姻能使它重见光明。
I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
我知道在我自己的婚姻中，我留下来是为了给我的儿子提供一个我认为是稳定的背景，给他一个我认为是一个孩子应该拥有的家庭生活。但这并不总是最好的方式，离婚后我带儿子去看了心理治疗，才真正体会到这一点。