A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
报价
Quotations
A witty saying proves nothing.
一句俏皮话证明不了什么。
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
谚语常蕴含智慧。
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
一个人必须是一个明智的读者，才能引用明智和良好。
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
引用，像更好的东西一样，也有它的弊端。
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
名言对于没有灵感的人来说只是一种激励。
Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.
大多数时候我引用自己的话。这不是傲慢，这是作家的工作。
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
几乎每一个明智的说法都有一个相反的，同样明智的，来平衡它。
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
智者的智慧和时代的经验可以通过引用来保存。
Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
我们缺乏同情心源于我们无法深入了解事物的本质。
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
那些引文真的很模糊。任何人都看得出他是一个博览群书的人。
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
名言在聪明人手里是钻石，在蠢人手里是鹅卵石。
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
他把自己裹在语录里——就像一个乞丐把自己裹在皇帝的紫色衣服里一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do.
因为人们很容易盲目地沿着头脑的幼兽之路去做别人已经做过的事。他们循着老路，进进出出，来来回回地走着，仍然走着弯路，走着别人走的路。
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
对引文(以及不协调引文的并列)的品味是一种超现实主义的品味。
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
这是一个老错误的男人忘记把引号放在哪里，他借用了一个女人的大脑!
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
在你的脑海里呆在家里。不要背诵别人的意见。我讨厌报价。告诉我你所知道的。
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
我喜欢引用格言，因为它是一种乐趣，发现一个人可能有很多想法，由一个公认的比自己更聪明的人用权威的语言优美地表达出来。