A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
老
Old
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为，有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点，就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
我以前在利物浦的学校现在是一所表演艺术学校，我在那里教书——我随便用这个词——但我去那里和学生们交谈。
Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.
不幸的是，我们在地球上没有发现很多非常古老的岩石，因为我们星球的表面不断地受到板块构造和侵蚀的更新。
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
很少有战士会考虑到赛马的问题，当他们没有马的时候，就会被放到牧场上，带着尊严和舒适地老去。
The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
去斗殴的唯一好处是你可以进入绿色的房间，你可以看到一些你很久没有见过的老朋友。
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
古欧洲和古克里特岛的女神代表了自然界生命的统一，对形式的多样性、生、死和再生的力量感到高兴。
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
从出生到死亡，任何人都可以钓鱼。我只是觉得看到老人和年轻人一起去钓鱼，教他们东西是一件很棒的事情。我非常非常挑剔。
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
我心目中的英雄是像毕加索和米罗这样的人，他们在晚年终于达到了他们年轻时绝对无法达到的境界。
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
相信我，老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然，你被轻轻地推下了舞台，但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人，只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样，可以变得内省，唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春，他就迷失了。
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
太多诗人的地狱不是一座山顶上洒满阳光，缪斯女神和优雅女神造访过的小山，而是一座破败的老房子，充满阴郁，鬼魂出没。
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
在我四岁之前，我一直住在我祖父的房子里，离美丽的小村庄华莱士大约两英里，就在那条河的入海口。
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We get too soon old and too late smart.
我们老得太早，聪明得太晚。
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
没有钱你可以年轻，但没有钱你不能老。
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
变老是强制性的;成长是可以选择的。
Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.
幼猪发出咕噜声，就像老猪在它们面前咕噜声一样。
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
我听各种各样的音乐——新音乐、老音乐、同事们的音乐，什么都听。
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
老年人做得更好。我们在某些领域不是很敏感。