01. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. –Oscar Wilde

我自己的事总让我烦得要死；我更喜欢管别人的事。

02. One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain

猫与谎言的一个显著区别就是猫只有九条命。

03. She is like the rest of the women –thinks two and two’ll come to make five, if she cries and bothers enough about it. –George Eliot

她和其他女的一样――认为只要使劲哭闹，二加二就能等于五。

04. When you are down and out, something always turns up—and it’s usually the noses of your friends. – Orson Wells

你山穷水尽而潦倒的时候，总有什么在你面前现出来――那通常是你朋友“嗤之以”的鼻子。

05. The one thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. –T. R. Dewar

交个人所得税让人伤心，比这更让人伤心的只有一件事：个人所得税你用不着交。

06. In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. – Menchen

总的说来，书有两种：一是人人都不看的，一种是人人都不该看的。

07. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. –Lord Rochester

还没结婚时，我有六条养育孩子的理论；现在我有六个孩子，理论一条也没有了。

08. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; it you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates

尽一切办法结婚吧；如果你找到一个好妻子，你会很幸福；如果你找到一个坏妻子，你会成为哲学家。

09. Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. –William hazlitt

有些人所以许下诺言，是为了要享受食言的快感。

10. In dealing¹ with Englishman you can be sure of on thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. –W. R. Inge

与英国人打交道，你能确定的只有一件事，那就是，合乎逻辑的解决办法不会被采纳。

11. No wife can endure a gambling² husband unless he is a steady winner. –Dewar

没有哪个妻子能忍受一个赌博的丈夫，除非他总是赢。

12. It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing—I used to be a good boy. –Mark Twain

这里曾经是个好宾馆，可是，那证明不了什么――我还曾经是个好孩子呢。