Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

  • -- Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. 海伍德·坎贝尔·布鲁恩

人们在沙漠中架起了桥梁,修筑起了公路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝一颗钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

我认识许多已婚男人,甚至认识一些幸福的已婚男人,但我不认识一个人,他会在第一个露头的煤坑里,追着第一个向他抛媚眼的漂亮姑娘跑。

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

成功与失败的区别往往不在于一个人是否有更好的能力或更好的想法,而在于一个人是否有勇气把赌注押在自己的想法上,是否敢于冒险,是否付诸行动。

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

当今西方文化的贵族阶层,在其统治世界的最明显时刻,正在每一个东方国家被迅速和成功地模仿。

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

我更愿意在这里获得成功,花了我一大笔钱和精力……而不是寄给波希米亚一些普通的作品。

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

一个成功研究项目的经典例子是牛顿引力理论:这可能是有史以来最成功的研究项目。

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

我们女人需要做的,不是担心我们没有什么,而是爱我们所拥有的。

Well woman I love it when you tick a tock. When you booty clap me say wine ya baby.

女人,我喜欢你滴答滴答的样子。当你的战利品拍我说酒你宝贝。

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

和平不是在安理会的桌子上或通过条约达成的,而是在人们的心中达成的。