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1.I am a poor man ,but I have this consolation:I am poor by accident,not by design. ------Billings
我是个穷光蛋，但我这样安慰自己：我是偶然穷起来的，并非出于有意。
2.Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ------A.Karr
女人以抗拒男人的追求为开端，而以截断其退路为结局。
3.When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
------Oscar wilde
当人们同意我的时候，我总觉得一定是我有什么不对。
4.A critic is a man whose watch is five minutes ahead of other people's watches. ------Sanit Beuve
批评家的表总是比别人快五分钟。
5.Of all the home remedies,a good wife is the best.
------Kin Hubbard
所有家庭疗法之中，好老婆是第一位的。
6.Work is work if you are paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it. ------Dunne
为酬劳而工作是工作，付出代价才能干就成了乐趣了.
7.Don‘t answer back if you are out to make money,but do if you are out for enjoyment. ------Barry pain
如果你志在赚钱就别回嘴，但若为了高兴就尽管说吧.
8.The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
------Anacharsis
市场就是为了方便人们互相欺骗而专门设立的场所。
9.Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
------Oscar wilde
人是理性的动物，但当他被要求理性地行动时，可就要发脾气了。
10.Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle,but we act on interest. ------W.S.Landor
道义对有道义之士也不会有什么重大影响；我们虽满口仁义道德，实则总按利益来行事。
11.One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness: a man who wants to vomit never puts to airs.
------Josh Billings
自尊自大与装模作样的最佳应急疗法就是晕船----要呕吐的人是顾不上摆架子的。
12.Behind every agruement is someone's ignorance.
------L.D.Brandeis
每一场争论背后总有一个无知者存在。
13.When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of ,he always declares that it is his duty. ------Shaw
每当蠢人做了某些自己也认为羞耻的事情时，他总会声称这只是他的义务。
14.The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
------Wilde
情绪的好处就在于把我们引入歧途。
15.When a woman is wearing shorts her charms are enlarged without being enhanced. ------Nichols
当女人穿的很少时，她的魅力无须美化便大为提升。
16.A.B ---The degree a collage graduate gets before he goes out in the world to learn the rest of the alphabet.
所谓A.B(Bachelor of Arts即文学士)者，就是大学毕业生在走进社会学习其余字母之前所得的学位。
17.I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. ------Heinrich Heine
我不知道她是否保持贞洁，但她容貌丑陋，对一个女人来说，这就大势已定了。
18.Children begin by loving their parents ; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ------Oscar Wilde
孩子们小时候爱其父母，长大之后便批评父母，以至于最后宽恕他们。
19.To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning ; to a man it is the beginning of the end. ------Helen Rowland
对于女人来说，初吻只是开始的结局 ；对于男人来说，这却意味着结局的开始。
(Women still remermber the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.)
20.An early bird---The man who is always on time and therefore wastes a lot of time waiting for other people. ------Evan Esar
早到的人----他们总是准时到达，却要浪费很多时间来等别人。
Some of above sentences are my own free translation.
(to be continued)
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