When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen. 当这条河没有声音时，它要么干涸，要么涨得很大。
Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old. 娶一个年轻女子为乐，占有她直到她老去。
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. 人的日常生活就是工作、梦想、工作、梦想。 -- Raymond Queneau 雷蒙·格诺
With one hand he scratches you, and with the other he strikes you. 他一只手抓你，另一只手打你。
There are more old tipplers than old doctors. 老酒鬼比老医生还多。
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. 金钱和地位都不能补偿我出身低微。 -- Anthony Trollope 安东尼·特罗洛普
Who knows not the game, let him not play. 谁不懂游戏，就让他不玩。
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. 自从数学家们侵入相对论以来，我自己也不再理解它了。 -- Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. 如果我们经常怀疑，知识的礼物就会到来。 -- Arapaho 阿拉帕霍