(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，结婚和去世。

(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

最佳的生活条件是不要富得遭人嫉妒，也不要穷得被人讨厌。

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

我们啼哭着来到世间，抱怨着活在世间，失望地离开世间。

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

原谅一个敌人要比原谅一个朋友来得容易。

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

友谊像个陶罐，如果破碎还能修补；爱情像面镜子，一旦破裂就成终结。

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

我们所爱的人具有对我们最大的伤害力。

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

友谊是爱情减去性再加上理由，爱情是友谊加上性再减去理由。

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

爱情是一种疾病，但能够治愈。

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

真正的爱情是多么的罕见，然而真正的友谊更是凤毛麟角。

(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

一个女人要化二十年时间才把她的儿子抚养成人，而另一个女人只化二十分钟就把他变成傻瓜。

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

男人只有到了能够懂得他的妻子没有说出来的每一个词的意思的时候，才可以认为自己是真正的结婚了。

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

喜欢、或者不喜欢同样的事物，这其实就是真正的友谊。

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

把人们分成好的和坏的是荒谬的，人要么是有趣的要么是乏味的。

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

人是唯一会害羞、或者需要害羞的一种动物。

(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聪明的，但是期望别人对此守口如瓶是愚蠢的。

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

每个人都抱怨自己的记忆力，却没有人抱怨自己的判断力。

(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，中年人怀疑每一件事，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

财富就象海水，我们喝得越多，就变得越渴；名望也同样如此。

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

当你第一次真正地笑你自己的时候，你长大了。

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

我们必须相信幸运，因为不然的话，怎么来解释我们所不喜欢的人的成功呢？

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

你家的每一个客人都给你带来快乐：有些在到达时，有些则在决定要离开时。—孔子(孔子这样说过么？)

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

无论什么时候你摔倒了，就捡点什么起来。

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

业余爱好就是一种你不是为了生活而干的艰苦工作。(无名氏)

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

科学总是出毛病。它从来没有解决一个问题而不产生十个新问题。

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

批评家是这样一种人：他知道路径但不会开车。

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

乐观主义者声称我们生活的世界是所有可能的世界中最好的一个，而悲观主义者则担心此话当真。

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

上帝不能改变过去，但历史学家却能够。

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

请给我一位“一方面”的经济学家吧！所有的经济学家都说：“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

如果你从一个作者那里抄袭，这是剽窃；但如果从许多作者那里抄袭，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

一个专家，就是在一个狭窄的领域内制造了所有能够制造的错误的人。

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

考试对于准备得最好的人来说也是棘手的，因为最大的傻瓜也会提出问题超过最聪明的人能回答的范围。

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

在自然界里，既没有奖励，也没有惩罚——只有后果。

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

你不能说文明没有进步，因为在每一次战争中他们都用新的方法杀害你。

(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

科学也许发现了医治大多数罪恶的方法，但它对人类的冷漠这一种最糟糕的罪恶却束手无策。

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

当你不得不作出一个选择时，不要去选择，这本身也是一种选择。

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

能解开的就绝不要割开。

(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两个人始终都意见一致，那么其中的一个是没用的；如果他们始终都观点相左，那么两个都是无用之人。

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

由于每天忠诚地工作八小时，你最终也许能成为一个老板并且每天工作十二小时。

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

英文中最美丽的两个词是“Cheque Enclosed”(“附上支票”)。

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

战争不会决定谁是正确的，只决定谁会幸存下来。

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

在所有的日子中，最为浪费的就是那些你没有笑的日子。

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

有婴儿与无婴儿的家庭互为对方感到遗憾。

(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种：你自己做，雇别人做，或者禁止你的孩子们做。

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

我没有如此年轻以至于通晓一切。

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

学习快速阅读的最简单的方法是接到一封意想不到的来自税务局的公函。

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

一点点不精确有的时候可以省去一大堆解释。

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

如果说科学教会我们一点什么的话，那就是我们的周围充满着不确定性。

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

因为我们长得聪明，便以为我们的父辈傻冒；毫无疑问咱们更聪明的儿辈们，也会如此看待我们。

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

往后看生命才能被理解，然而生命必须朝前活。

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

没有期望才决不会有失望。