It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire. 房子失火后再挖井是没有用的。
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. 因此，农学的理论基础必须包括生物学规律的知识。 -- Trofim Lysenko 李森科
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. 很少说话的人，只要在适当的时候用一句冷静的话就能使健谈的人哑口无言，他就是天才或英雄。 -- Johann Kaspar Lavater 拉瓦特
You're never too old to be young. 你永远不会老到不能年轻。 -- Paul Palnik 保罗·帕尼克
No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will. 从来没有女巫声称拥有老魔杖。你想怎么做就怎么做。 -- J. K. Rowling J.K.罗琳
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. 我想买一个烛台，但店里没有。所以我得到了一个蛋糕。 -- Mitch Hedberg 米奇·赫德伯格
Things often happen when you least expect them to. Where we least think, there goes the hare away. 事情往往发生在你最意想不到的时候。我们想得最少的地方，兔子就跑了。
The creaking of the door deprives me of no sleep. 门的吱嘎声使我无法入睡。
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. 宇宙中的一切都是间接的。没有直线。 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生