西详幽默语录(之三)
阿佛列德埃特勒 (ADLER, Alfred), 1870-1937
奥地利生理和心理学家
It is easier to fight one’s principles than to live up to them.
为一个人的原则而斗容易过为它们而坚持.
路易士阿加西兹 (AGASSIZ, Louis J.R.), 1807-1873
瑞士裔美国动物学家和地质学家
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
我无法浪费我的时间去赚钱.
詹姆斯阿给 (AGATE, James), 1877-1947
英国剧评家
The capacity for genius and the capacity for getting that genius recognized are two quite different things.
天才的能力和让天才了解他的能力是两码事.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
英国人天性欣赏任何没有天份而又自谦的人.
The great works can never do any harm to a mind, which, having no impression at all, can have no false impression.
伟大的作品不可能会对一个人的思想带来什么害处, 因为对它们既然完全没有印象, 何来错误的印象.
I have views on most matters, am as willing as a politician to change most of them.
对大多数的事情我都有自己的意见, 但我愿意像政客一样改变它们中的大部分.
It has been said that money talks, but I rather think that it is beginning to talk too loudly.
人常说金钱讲话声音大, 我却宁说它开始讲得太大声了.
Respectability is in itself no bar to the production of works of art.
一个人的威望本身并不防碍他的艺术创作.
To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.
为了不让我被逼去赚更多的钱, 我决心花更多的钱.
Though great artists have been licentious, license does not necessarily result in great art.
大作家虽不受拘束, 但不受拘束并不一定产生大作.
陶格拉斯恩斯礼 (AINSLIE, Douglas), 1865-1948
英国诗人, 评论家, 和哲学家
You can never trust a woman; she may be true to you.
你永远不能相信女人; 她可能对你是真的.
李察奥汀登 (ALDINGTON, Richard),1892-1962
英国诗人, 小说家, 和评论家
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill
爱国主义是一只傻公鸡孤自站在自已的粪堆上啼叫.
阿历山大大帝 (ALEXANDRA, the Great), 356-323 B.C.
希腊, 埃及, 和波斯的征服者
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
有太多医生的帮忙, 我快要死了.
