(1) The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason—birth, marriage and death. —Austin O'Malley

人生最重要的三件事都缺乏理由：出生，結婚和去世。

(2) The best condition in life is not to be so rich as to be envied not so poor as to be damned. —Josh Billings

最佳的生活條件是不要富得遭人嫉妒，也不要窮得被人討厭。

(3) We are born crying, live complaining and die disappointed. —Thomas Fuller

我們啼哭着來到世間，抱怨着活在世間，失望地離開世間。

(4) It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. —Madame Deluzy

原諒一個敵人要比原諒一個朋友來得容易。

(5) Friendship is like earthenware, once broken it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it. —Josh Billings

友誼像個陶罐，如果破碎還能修補；愛情像面鏡子，一旦破裂就成終結。

(6) Those have most power to hurt us that we love. —Francis Beaumont

我們所愛的人具有對我們最大的傷害力。

(7) Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. —Mason Cooley

友誼是愛情減去性再加上理由，愛情是友誼加上性再減去理由。

(8) Love’s a disease. But curable. —Rose Macauley

愛情是一種疾病，但能夠治癒。

(9) However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer. —La Rochefocauld

真正的愛情是多麼的罕見，然而真正的友誼更是鳳毛麟角。

(10) It takes a woman twenty year to make a man of her son and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. —Helen Rowland

一個女人要化二十年時間才把她的兒子撫養成人，而另一個女人只化二十分鐘就把他變成傻瓜。

(11) No man should consider himself truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying. —W.G.P.

男人只有到了能夠懂得他的妻子沒有說出來的每一個詞的意思的時候，才可以認為自己是真正的結婚了。

(12) To like, and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. —Sallust

喜歡、或者不喜歡同樣的事物，這其實就是真正的友誼。

(13) It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming and tedious. —Oscar Wilde

把人們分成好的和壞的是荒謬的，人要麼是有趣的要麼是乏味的。

(14) Man is the only animal that blushes.  Or need to. —Mark Twain

人是唯一會害羞、或者需要害羞的一種動物。

(15) To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

保持你自己的秘密是聰明的，但是期望別人對此守口如瓶是愚蠢的。

(16) Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment. —de La Rochefoucauld

每個人都抱怨自己的記憶力，卻沒有人抱怨自己的判斷力。

(17) The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. —Oscar Wilde

老年人相信每一件事，中年人懷疑每一件事，青年人知道每一件事。

(18) Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirster we become; and the same is true of fame. —Arthur Schopenhauer

財富就象海水，我們喝得越多，就變得越渴；名望也同樣如此。

(19) You grow up the day you have the first real laugh—at yourself. —Ethel Barrymore

當你第一次真正地笑你自己的時候，你長大了。

(20) We must believe in luck.  For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like. —Jean Coctean

我們必須相信幸運，因為不然的話，怎麼來解釋我們所不喜歡的人的成功呢？

(21) Every house guest brings you happiness: some when they arrive and some when they are leaving. —Confucius

你家的每一個客人都給你帶來快樂：有些在到達時，有些則在決定要離開時。—孔子(孔子這樣說過麼？)

(22) Whenever you fall, pick up something. —Oswald Theodore Avery

無論什麼時候你摔倒了，就撿點什麼起來。

(23) A hobby is hard work you wouldn’t do for a living. —Anonymous

業餘愛好就是一種你不是為了生活而干的艱苦工作。(無名氏)

(24) Science is always wrong.  It never solves a problem without creating ten more. —George Bernard Shaw

科學總是出毛病。它從來沒有解決一個問題而不產生十個新問題。

(25) A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. —Kenneth Tynan

批評家是這樣一種人：他知道路徑但不會開車。

(26) The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. —James Cabel

樂觀主義者聲稱我們生活的世界是所有可能的世界中最好的一個，而悲觀主義者則擔心此話當真。

(27) God cannot alter the past, but historians can. —Samuel Butler

上帝不能改變過去，但歷史學家卻能夠。

(28) Give me a one-handed economist!  All my economists say, " on the one hand…on the other". —Harry S. Truman

請給我一位“一方面”的經濟學家吧！所有的經濟學家都說：“一方面……另一方面……。”

(29) If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. —Wilson Mizner

如果你從一個作者那裡抄襲，這是剽竊；但如果從許多作者那裡抄襲，那叫研究。

(30) An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. —Niels Bohr

一個專家，就是在一個狹窄的領域內製造了所有能夠製造的錯誤的人。

(31) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. —Charles Colton

考試對於準備得最好的人來說也是棘手的，因為最大的傻瓜也會提出問題超過最聰明的人能回答的範圍。

(32) In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences. —Robert Ingersoll

在自然界裡，既沒有獎勵，也沒有懲罰——只有後果。

(33) You can’t say civilisation don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you a new way. —Will Rogers

你不能說文明沒有進步，因為在每一次戰爭中他們都用新的方法殺害你。

(34) Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings. —Helen Keller

科學也許發現了醫治大多數罪惡的方法，但它對人類的冷漠這一種最糟糕的罪惡卻束手無策。

(35) When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. —William James

當你不得不作出一個選擇時，不要去選擇，這本身也是一種選擇。

(36) Never cut what you can untie. —Joseph Joubert

能解開的就絕不要割開。

(37) If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless.  If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. —Darryl F. Zanuck

如果做同一件工作的兩個人始終都意見一致，那麼其中的一個是沒用的；如果他們始終都觀點相左，那麼兩個都是無用之人。

(38) By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —Robert Frost

由於每天忠誠地工作八小時，你最終也許能成為一個老闆並且每天工作十二小時。

(39) The two most beautiful words in the English are “Cheque Enclosed”. —Dorothy Parker

英文中最美麗的兩個詞是“Cheque Enclosed”(“附上支票”)。

(40) War does not determine who is right – only who is left. —Bertrand Russel

戰爭不會決定誰是正確的，只決定誰會倖存下來。

(41) The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. —Nicolal Chamfort

在所有的日子中，最為浪費的就是那些你沒有笑的日子。

(42) Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. —Edgar Watson Howe

有嬰兒與無嬰兒的家庭互為對方感到遺憾。

(43) There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. —Anonymous

使某件工作得以完成的方法有三種：你自己做，雇別人做，或者禁止你的孩子們做。

(44) I am not young enough to know everything. —Sir J.M. Barrie

我沒有如此年輕以至於通曉一切。

(45) The simplest way to learn speed reading is to get an unexpected letter from the taxation office. —The Cockle Bur

學習快速閱讀的最簡單的方法是接到一封意想不到的來自稅務局的公函。

(46) A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. —Saki

一點點不精確有的時候可以省去一大堆解釋。

(47) If science has taught us anything, it is that the environment is full of uncertainties. —Prince Charles

如果說科學教會我們一點什麼的話，那就是我們的周圍充滿着不確定性。

(48) We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. —Alexander Pope

因為我們長得聰明，便以為我們的父輩傻冒；毫無疑問咱們更聰明的兒輩們，也會如此看待我們。

(49) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —Soren Kiekegaad

往後看生命才能被理解，然而生命必須朝前活。

(50) He that expected nothing is never disappointed. —W.G.P.

沒有期望才決不會有失望。