名人雋語(23則)

Quotable Quotes

(名人雋語)

◎    Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.  (Lao-Tzu)

瞭解別人是才能；而了解自己是真智慧。控制別人是力量；控制自己才是真功夫。  (老子)

◎    Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.   (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

告訴我你通常吃甚麼，我就知道你是甚麼樣的人。   (安瀋．撒瓦霖)

◎    To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.  (Albert Einstein)

為了懲罰我藐視權威，命運讓我本身成了權威。  (愛因斯坦)

◎    Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.   (Doug Larson)

如果綠色蔬菜的味道像培根一樣讚，人類的壽命將會向上三級跳。   (道格．拉森)

◎    Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are – you aren’t.  (Margret Thatcher)

一個人如果逢人便說自己是淑女，她鐵定不是。同理，一個人如果逢人便說自己是權貴，他也鐵定不是。  (瑪格莉特．佘契爾)

◎    Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.   (Mark Twain)

意外之財固然讓人欣喜；但這筆錢若比預期的少，心裡還是會不爽。   (馬克．吐溫)

◎    He who has money can eat sherbet in hell.   (Proverb)

有錢的人在地獄裡照樣吃香喝辣。   (諺語)

◎    Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.   (Norman Vincent Peale)

口袋空空不會讓人畏縮；只有腦袋空空和心靈空空才會讓人心虛。  (諾曼．辟爾)

◎    Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.   (Will Rogers)

有太多的人花費尚未賺到的錢，去買不必要的東西，去取悅他們討厭的人。   (威爾．羅傑斯)

◎    Love is metaphysical gravity.   (R. Buckminster Fuller)

愛是超物理學的萬有引力。   (R. 富勒)

◎ The breeze skewed my face.   (Anonymous)
微風吹歪了我的臉。  (佚名)

◎    Wisdom outweighs any wealth.   (Sophocles)

智慧重於任何財富。   (瑣弗克利斯)

◎    For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.  (Catherine Zeta-Jones)

婚姻要成功的話，每個女人和每個男人都應該要有自己的浴室；除此之外別無他法。   (凱薩琳．姬妲-瓊絲)

◎    There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.   (Alice Thomas Ellis)

世上沒有對等的相互關係；男人愛女人，女人愛小孩，小孩愛倉鼠。   (愛莉絲．艾麗思)

◎    My advice to you is to get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.   (Socrates)

我勸你們要結婚: 假如你找到好老婆，你將會很幸福；假如你找到壞老婆，你將會變成一個哲學家。   (蘇格拉底)

◎    Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.   (Benjamin Franklin)
婚前要睜大眼睛，婚後則要半閉。   (班哲明．富蘭克林)

◎    Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?   (Natalie Clifford Barney)
為何要搜刮錢財如盜匪? 為何要分贓如社會主義黨徒? 為何不學學有智慧的人視錢財為無物?   (娜塔莉．芭妮)

◎    A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.  (Robert Frost)

銀行是—晴天借傘給你而遇雨馬上要你還傘的一種地方。   (羅伯．佛羅斯特)

◎    Never spend your money before you have it.   (Thomas Jefferson)

千萬別寅吃卯糧。   (湯瑪士．傑佛遜)

◎ Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.   (Arthur Schopenhauer)

金錢給人的幸福是抽象的；因此無法具體感受到這種幸福的人，只有一心想錢。   (阿瑟．叔本華)

 

◎    That money talks I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, “Goodbye.”   (Richard Armour)

我不否認錢會說話；我就曾經聽過–它說：「掰掰!」   (理查．阿莫)

【註】money talks 原出自莎士比亞戲劇《威尼斯商人》，原意是「錢能使鬼推磨」。此處則採字面意思：錢會說話。

◎ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.  (Aristotle)

   一個人受教育的目的，在於能夠嘗試聽聽他無法接受的想法。 (亞里斯多德)

◎ Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.   (Bill Gates)

   成功是個差勁的老師；它常誤導許多優秀的人以為自己不會失敗。  (比爾．蓋茲)

◎ Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.   (Malcolm Forbes)

   教育的目的是將空虛的心靈變成開放的心靈。   (馬爾康．富比世)

◎ The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.   (Matthew Arnold)

     一個時代的先進思想是下個時代的普通常識。   (馬修．阿諾)

◎ The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.   (Jim Henson)
   我所認識的最世故的人，其實內心都像小孩。   (吉姆．韓森)