Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

为什么我们在出生时高兴,在葬礼上悲伤?这是因为我们不是相关的人。

相关名言

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

No person is important enough to make me angry.

没有人重要到让我生气。