Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
诗人说过，有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了，我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。
Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.
政治辩论:骗子聚在一起讨论他们的原则。
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
政客们……泛泛之谈和谎言，我认为它们造成了我们所有的悲伤。它们太可怕了，真的很有趣。我讨厌这么想，因为我爸爸喜欢政治。
Practical people have the potential to be very useful. Their shoulders make good boot grooves - but light feet only wear slippers.
务实的人有潜力成为非常有用的人。他们的肩膀有很好的靴子凹槽，但是光脚只穿拖鞋。
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
熟能生巧，但没有人是完美的，所以为什么要练习呢?
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
压力是你不知道自己在做什么的时候感觉到的。
Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age.
可能是我们这个时代最危险最有权势的实业家。
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
抚养孩子是一项极其艰难和危险的工作，没有积累的智慧:每一代人都在重复上一代人所犯的错误。
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
抚养孩子既是一种乐趣，也是一种游击战。
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
轻率属于青春;谨慎对待老年。
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
过了一定的年龄，阅读会使人的思想过分偏离其创造性的追求。读书太多而用脑太少的人会养成懒惰的思维习惯。
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
学习的责任属于学生，不分年龄。
Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.
回报不是为了可能得到回报，而是为了你不用花钱就能得到礼物的快乐。
Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die.
敬畏是人生最大的快乐和力量——敬畏年轻时纯洁明亮的事物;因为那是真实的，经过岁月的考验;因为凡在活人中有恩慈的，在死人中为大的，在不死的能力上为大的。
Sarcasm isn't at all funny when it's the truth.
当讽刺是事实时，它一点也不有趣。