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。
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多数人都是其他人。他们的思想是别人的观点，他们的生活是模仿，他们的激情是引用。
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
为了加强自己的性格，高人一等的人会熟习许多古代的格言和行为。
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
名言是聪明人手指上的钻石，愚人手中的鹅卵石。
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!
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。