We do not like the idea that children are as wild outwardly as we are inwardly. 我们不喜欢孩子们外表像我们内心一样狂野的想法。 -- Shraga Silverstein 施拉格·西尔弗斯坦
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. 我写作，这样我就摆脱了我自己，然后我终于可以休息了。 -- Clarice Lispector
You can take a man out of the bog, but you can't take the bog out of the man. 你可以带一个人走出困境，但你不能带一个人走出困境。
He who gets out of debt enriches himself. 摆脱债务的人使自己富裕。
A secretive person is up to some mischief. 一个爱遮遮掩掩的人在搞恶作剧。
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. 宁可听住在树上的乌鸦，也不听只活在思想中的学者。 -- Kate Horsley 凯特·霍斯利
I know well what I say when I ask for bread. 我很清楚当我要面包时我说什么。
Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing. 追求和追求带来的是磨磨蹭蹭。
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor. 慷慨的人通过给予来充实自己;守财奴积贫。