西洋幽默语录(之六十四)
威廉詹姆斯 (JAMES, William), 1842-1910
美国心理学家和哲学家
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
很多人以为他们在思考, 而实际上他们只不过在重新安排他们的偏见吧了.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
当你需要做选择而你又不做, 这本身也就是一个选择.
汤姆斯杰佛逊 (JEFFERSON, Thomas), 1743-1826
美国政治家和总统
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
广告包含的真实只能靠报纸上讲的.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
这是律师的行业, 凡事要问, 又没结果, 却还能滔滔不绝, 讲个没完.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
一个完全不读书的人所受的教育, 比一个除了新闻什么都不读的人高.
杰罗米杰罗米 (JEROME, Jerome K.), 1859-1927
英国幽默作者和小说家
I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.
我喜欢工作, 它深深吸引我; 我可以坐下来看着它很多小时而不厌.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are exceptionally good liar.
讲真话一向是最好的政策, 当然, 除非你是个杰出的说谎者.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
要完全享受无所事事是不可能的, 除非一个人有很多事情做.
Love is like measles; we all have to go through it.
爱情好像天花; 我们所有人都必须经历.
We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.
我们为他人的健康而乾杯, 却破坏了自己的健康.
One of the advantages of being poor is that it necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.
穷的好处之一是它促进你的道德修养.
