Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.
二十年后你会因为你没做的事情而失望。所以扔掉缆绳，离开安全港，搭上信风启航吧
---马克吐温

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well…
沙漠之所以美丽，是因为在它的某个角落隐藏着一口井水……
--- 《小王子》

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. 知道自己要去哪里的人，整个世界都会为他让步。
_____ Anon

●The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.——Winston
Churchill
【温斯顿·邱吉尔：你回首看得越远，你向前也会看得越远。】（Gideon）

●Try not. Do or do not.——Yoda
【尤达大师（『星球大战』中的主角）：别试。做或者不做。】（Morgan剧中台词）

●We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become
disguised to ourselves.——Francois de La
【Francois de La（作家）：在人前我们总是习惯于伪装自己，但最终也蒙骗了自己。】（Gideon）

●I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good
character, and my enemies for their good intellects.——Oscar Wilde
【奥斯卡·王尔德：我根据长相选择朋友，根据人品选择熟人，根据智力选择敌人。】

●Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that
dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.——Gilbert
Keith Chesterton
【G. K.
切斯特顿（英国作家、文学评论家、神学家，1874-1936）：童话故事不会告诉孩子龙的存在，可孩子们已经知道了龙的存在。童话故事告诉孩子龙是可以杀死的。】

They can not break me . The only way to break me is to kill me,And everything that does not kill me makes me stronger .
任何不能杀了我的只会令我更强。——《少年汉尼拔》

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
我反对暴力，因为暴力带来的好处往往都是暂时的，它带来的恶果却是无穷的。
——甘地

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.It's the life in your years.
到头来，你活了多少岁不算什么。重要的是你是如何度过这些岁月的。
——Abraham Lincoln

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should
be happier than others.
对光棍应该狠狠征税，因为这些男人过得那么开心对其他人是很不公平的！
——Oscar Wilde （奥斯卡.王尔德）

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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗体力
——Benjamin Franklin

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
普通人只想到如何度日，有才能的人则设法利用时间。
——Arthur Schopenhauer