西洋幽默语录(之九十九)
麦克萨德列 (SADLEIR, Machael), 1888-1957
英国作家和出版商
The earliest bird gets the most worms.
早起的鸟儿有最多的虫吃.
查尔斯圣柏甫 (SAINTE-BEUVE, Charles Augustin), 1804-1869
法国评论家和诗人
A critic is a man whose watch is five minutes ahead of other people’s watches.
一个评论家的表总比其他人的表快五分钟.
埃格尔萨杜斯 (SALTUS, Edgar), 1855-1921
美国作家
Society would be delightful were all women married and all men single.
社会将会大乐, 如果所有女人都结婚, 所有男人都单身.
It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
曾经爱过你的妻子比完全不曾爱过好.
Divorce is like matrimony: a fellow has got to go through it three or four times before he knows how.
离婚有如结婚: 一个人需要经历过三或四次, 然后才知道怎么一回事.
卡尔桑德堡 (SANDBURG, Carl), 1878-1967
美国诗人和自传作者
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his month.
我不会为任何只会讲不会做的人放弃我的信仰.
乔治桑达耶那 (SANTAYANA, George), 1863-1952
美国诗人, 哲学家, 和散文作家
Declarations of Independence make nobody really independent.
独立宣言并没使人真正的独立.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
生和死没得救, 省下来亨受其间.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
不能记得过去的人将得咎而重复之.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
困难的事是可以立刻去做的, 不可能的事则需多一点时间.
约翰萨真特 (SARGENT, John Singer), 1856-1925
美国肖像画家
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
每次我画一个肖像, 我就失去一个朋友.
