西洋幽默语录(之五十五)
唐赫洛德 (HEROLD, Don), 1889-1966
美国幽默作者和艺术家
Be good, even at the cost of your self-respect.
保持风度. 即使得付出你自尊的代价.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
对他人好和为他人着想, 多少要看对方是谁.
Be kind to dumb people.
对愚钝之人要待他好.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
你越聪明越得学.
Everything in life is fairly simple except one’s wife.
人生的一切都相当简单, 除了老婆之外.
Genius is an infinite capacity for giving pains.
天才是一种给予痛苦的无限能力.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
你要做很多事才能证明你的聪明, 但你只需做一件错事就可证明你的无知.
A man can’t have his soul and save it too.
一个人不能既要他的灵魂又要把它藏起来.
Many people have character who have nothing else.
很多人除了性格之外, 什么都没有.
Marriage is a mistake of youth – which we should all make.
婚姻是年青的一个错误 - 这是我们都应该犯的.
Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain the same.
驱动力的方法近年来大有进展, 但可走的地方还是一样.
Poverty must have many satisfactions else there would not be so many poor people.
贫穷一定有很多满足, 不然为什么有那么多的穷人.
Some people have had nothing else but experience.
很多人什么都没有, 只有经验.
There is no body so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
最受不了的是有一些人, 不比我们聪明却又自以为是.
There is one thing about baldness: it’s neat.
光头有个好处: 乾净.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
我们从今以后再也不相信历史, 现在我们目睹了它是怎么造成的.
When one has had to work so hard to get money, why should he impose on himself the further hardship of trying to save it?
当一个人必须这么辛苦去赚钱, 我们又何必强迫自已受苦去存它?
Why resist temptation – there will always be more.
何必抗拒诱惑 – 它将越来越多.
Women are not much, but they are the best other sex we have.
女人并不很多, 但她们却是我们所有的最好的异性.
Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.
女人给我们安慰, 但若不是为了女人, 我们也不需要安慰了.
Women have a wonderful sense of right and wrong, but little sense of right and left.
女人有不可思议的对错道理, 却很少有左右的方向观.
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
工作是世界上最重要的事, 因此我们应该时常留一点给明天.
