The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth. 屠夫找他的刀，它在他的嘴里。
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. 我不会因为别人不接受我能做些别的事情就限制自己。 -- Dolly Parton 多莉·帕顿
A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted. 要建造房屋，栽种葡萄园。
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. 努力工作使阅读变得容易，或者至少更容易。 -- M. H. Abrams 艾布拉姆斯
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. 几个世纪以来，有些人迈出了第一步，踏上了新的道路，他们只带着自己的愿景。 -- Ayn Rand 艾恩·兰德
He who grasps at too much loses everything. 贪多必失。
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? 谁又聋又瞎，竟故意不听不看呢?
Better the second husband of a widow than the first. 寡妇有第二个丈夫，强如有第一个丈夫。
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. 爱和欲望是伟大事业的精神翅膀。 -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德
Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed. 政治是没有流血的战争;战争是流血的政治。 -- Mao Zedong 毛泽东