Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

  • -- Branch Rickey 布兰奇·瑞基

闲暇是魔鬼的侍女。

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

在任何高度组织化的工业社会中,良好的声誉最终建立在经济实力的基础上;休闲和炫耀性的商品消费是显示经济实力、获得或保持好名声的手段。

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

就像这个世界上所有其他的好东西一样,休闲和文化也是要花钱的。然而,幸运的是,付出代价的不是那些闲散和有文化的人。

A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world danceth after.

习惯的栏杆是魔鬼的风笛,全世界都跟着它跳舞。

Haste is from the Devil.

欲速则不达。