Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. 无论你身在何处，都是你的朋友创造了你的世界。 -- Chris Bradford 克里斯·布拉德福德
That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. 这是年老的标志，以牺牲现在来颂扬过去。 -- Sydney Smith 史密斯
If you spit against the wind, you spit in your own face. 如果你逆风吐口水，你就是在自己脸上吐口水。
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable. 不可避免的事情本身就是一种冲击，因为它是不可避免的。 -- Jamaica Kincaid 牙买加·琴凯德
One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it. 一段婚姻永远不会被庆祝，但另一段婚姻却从中成长。
If you search for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor. 如果你寻找一个完美的女人，你仍然是一个单身汉。
Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it. 吃煎饼的人从不数上面的洞。
thou who askest one about my food, (know that) bread is the chief of all things. 你向人打听我的食物，就知道面包是最重要的。
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. 哦，心灵，心灵有高山;可怕的、陡峭的、深不可测的悬崖。廉价持有他们，愿谁也不挂在那里。 -- Gerard Manley Hopkins 杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯