A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  • -- Sophocles 索福克勒斯

谚语常蕴含智慧。

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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

作家可以在阁楼上写作,也可以在公共汽车上写作。或者用锋利的棍子插在湿水泥里。要表演,演员必须有语言。一个舞台。一个摄像头转向。

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

为了加强自己的性格,高人一等的人会熟习许多古代的格言和行为。

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

在一位希腊教授和几位诗人的一点帮助下,图书馆和图书管理员造就了我。

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

名言是聪明人手指上的钻石,愚人手中的鹅卵石。

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

简洁是改正之母。