It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  • -- Grace Murray Hopper 格蕾丝·赫柏

请求原谅往往比请求允许更容易。

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What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

经常发生的事情是——虽然我不是这种事情的特别受害者——有人会引用,或发明一个评论,然后被印出来,最后在网上成为货币。其中一些非常奇怪!

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

当你结婚的时候,问自己这个问题:你相信在你年老的时候你能和这个人很好地交谈吗?婚姻中的其他一切都是短暂的。

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

取笑第一夫人要比取笑第一夫人容易得多。审查是残酷的。

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

有多少次,愤怒的人愤怒地否认自己内心的想法。

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

我要问问他们要我穿正装还是日语。

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.

勇气比恐惧更令人振奋,从长远来看,它更容易。

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

请求道歉总比请求允许好。

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

宽恕就像信仰。你必须不断更新它。

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave.

我意识到我在等待他的允许离开。

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

没有什么比一个年轻的悲观主义者更悲哀的了。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

轻易宽恕只会招致冒犯。