In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

在一个更加理性严谨的时代，我根本不会被人说成是一个讽刺作家。我只想做一个时事喜剧演员。

In age after age, through all the ages, forever and ever, those who belong to the Guru's Family shall prosper and increase.

在一个又一个时代，通过所有的时代，直到永远，那些属于古鲁家族的人将繁荣和增加。

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

在积极的生活中播下了智慧的种子;惟有不省察的，永远不收割。没有收获，却背负着年龄的重担，却没有经验的报酬;他既不知道自己老了，也不知道教区的人都知道他有病，不知道他为人所不齿。年龄如果没有尊严，就什么也没有。

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

在这个媒体传播无数愚蠢行为的时代，受过教育的人的定义不是他知道什么，而是他不知道什么。

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

在这个无能的时代，我能在这个疯狂的行业里坚持下去。事实上，我知道如何使用我的斧头和写一首歌。那是我的工作。

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

在一个合成图像和合成情感的时代，偶然与现实相遇的机会确实很渺茫。

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

在这个时代，人类已经忘记了自己的起源，甚至对自己最基本的生存需求都视而不见，水和其他资源已经成为人类冷漠的受害者。

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

在这个流行爱自己的时代，承认自己爱上了别人就是承认自己对爱人不忠。

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

在抚养孩子的时候，要想到孩子的晚年。

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

少年时要谦虚，少年时要节制，成年时要正直，老年时要谨慎。

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

在选择假设时，胆怯是没有好处的。如果是在另一个时代，我肯定会被烧死在火刑柱上。

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

在每一个国家、每一个时代，牧师都对自由怀有敌意;他总是忠于暴君，教唆他滥用权力，以换取自己的保护。

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.

到了中年，我们往往会得出一个可怕的结论:所有的悲伤、所有的痛苦、所有充满激情的悔恨、失去和痛苦的幻灭都是自己造成的。

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

在我年老的时候，我发现如果你尊重别人，你会对自己感觉更好。

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

年轻时我强调自由，老年时我强调秩序。我有一个伟大的发现，自由是秩序的产物。