Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

字母像酒;声音若坚固,存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。

相关名言

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

看不见的酒神阿,你若没有可记念的名,我们就称你为魔鬼。

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

认识法律不是要记住它们的字母,而是要把握它们的全部力量和意义。

A lord without land, is like a cask without wine.

无地的君王,好像无酒的桶。

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

信是期望被包装在一个信封里。