01）As to marriage or celibacy¹, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent（后悔）. ——Socrates

是结婚还是要独身，让男士自己去选择吧，他肯定是要后悔的。

02）A woman is like your shadow—follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. ――Chamfort

女人好比影子——追她,她就跑;离开她,就跟上来。

03）True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. –Rochefoucauld

真爱就像幽灵，人人都谈论，可少有人见过。

04）If men knew all that women think, they’d be twenty times more daring². –A. Karr

要是男的知道女的怎样想，他们的胆子会大上二十倍。

05）If a man wants his wife to pay attention to what he says, he addresses his remarks to another woman.

要想让妻子注意听，就冲着别的女士说。

06）Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen³ bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates⁴. –A . L. Lowell

大学里满是知识；新生入校时带来一点点，而毕业生走时啥也没带走，知识就这么积聚下来了。

07）We always like those who admire us but we do not always like those whom we admire. – La Rochefoucauld

我们总是喜欢赞美我们的人，却未必喜欢我们所赞美的人。

08）A woman must choose: with a man liked by women, she is not sure; with a man disliked by women, she is not happy. – A. France

女性总得作出选择：和女性都喜欢的男性在一起，她放心不下；和女性都不喜欢的男性在一起，她高兴不起来。

09）It’s a funny thing when a man hasn’t got anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. – Robert Frost

单身汉无忧无虑，却去结了婚，真是怪事。

10）Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. –Anatole France

不要把书借给别人，因为没有谁会还书；我书室里的那些藏书都是别人借给我的。

11）A woman has two views of a secret. Either it’s not worth keeping, or it’s too good to keep.

对于保守秘密，女人有两种看法：要么是秘密不值得一守，要么是秘密守住了就太可惜了。

12）Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentlemen. –Herbert Spencer

婚姻：一种仪式。在这种仪式上，给女士手指上戴上指环，而给男士鼻子上套上鼻环。