巴斯卡 (PASCAL, Blaise) ，1623 - 1662
法国科学家、数学家、哲学家

•        Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
         假如埃及妖后的鼻子短些, 世界可能会有不同的面貌.

•        I have made this a rather long letter because I haven’t had time to make it shorter.
         我写这一封颇长的信, 因为我没有时间把它缩短.

•        The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
         我们决定写一本书, 绝不会去想首先要写什么.

•        To be a real philosopher one must be able to laugh at philosophy.
         作为一个真正的哲学家, 一个人要能嘲笑哲学.

•        If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be for friends in the world.
         假如每个人都知道别人在他背后说的话, 这个世界也就没有朋友可言.

山姆尔•皮普斯 (PEPYS, Samuel) ，1633 - 1703
日记作者

•        I find my wife has something in her gizzard that only wants an opportunity of being provoked to bring it out.
         我发觉我妻子有些东西在她的第二胃, 只要有机会被激怒, 她就会拿出来.

•        Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
         说来怪怪的, 我们结婚的人, 多么高兴看到这些可怜的傻子, 被诱陷入我们同样的情况.

威廉•菲尔普斯 (PHELPS, William Lyon) ，1865 - 1943
美国教育家、文学评论家

•        At a certain age some people’s minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
         到了某一岁数有些人的思想就关闭了; 他们靠智慧脂肪生存.

•        I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and who read to forget.
         我把所有读者分成两等: 那些读后记得的, 和那些读后记不得的.

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