Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.

  • -- John Skow 约翰·斯构

没有什么比坐在阴凉处,啜饮杜松子酒,沉思他人的风流韵事更令人愉快的了,只要婚姻的蛀虫还活着,小说就不会消亡。

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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

几乎没有人愚蠢到认为自己在任何领域都理所当然地应该获得巨大成功;然而,几乎所有人都认为,他理所当然地应该在婚姻中获得成功。

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

贪图邻居妻子的鲁莽男人会得到四件事:记过,不舒服的床,第三,惩罚,最后,地狱。

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.

所有的事情都有一个时间——除了婚姻,亲爱的。