Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

　　要避免争论，争论总是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。

　　As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

　　只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿小十岁，她就一定会心满意足。

　　Bad artists always admire each other's work.

　　糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。

　　Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

　　男女之间不可能存在友谊，有的只是爱恨情仇。

　　Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

　　良心和怯懦其实是一回事。

　　Dammit sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't be always living for pleasure.

　　该死，先生，结婚是你的职责，你不能总是逍遥快活。

　　Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

　　民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。

　　Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

　　不要给女人忠告;决不要给女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的东西。

　　Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

　　教育是一件可敬的事，但要时刻牢记，没有什么值得知道的事是教得会的。

　　I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

　　我喜欢政治晚会，这是唯一人们不谈政治的地方。

For man is man and master of his fate.

　　人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

　　The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates

　　混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底

　　None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus

　　只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

　　Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon

　　命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松

　　Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin

　　生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金

　　What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot

　　没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。——乔治·埃略特

　　Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.——Lincoln

　　卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。——林肯

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