the happier the time, the shorter it seems. Pliny the Younger
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw
knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus
无痛的性爱宛如无味的食物。 Marquis de Sade
Everything that has been written by men about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party.
All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party.
但凡男人写女人的东西都是值得怀疑的，因为男人既是法官又是当事人。François Poullain de la Barre
Im Frieden kommst du nicht vorwärts, im Krieg verblutest du.
战争中你流尽鲜血，和平中你寸步难行 Franz Kafka
所有的小说，细想起来都是自传。 Anatole France
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery Charles Dickens
Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. Stéphane Mallarmé
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself Jacques Cousteau
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon’s razor
Sooner or later, everything old is new again. Stephen King, The Colorado Kid