Wq/yue/馬克次溫
馬克次溫（Mark Twain，1835年11月30日—1910年4月21日，又譯馬克吐溫），原名三苗·能康·卡文士（Samuel Langhorne Clemens），係美國小說家、作家、演說家，有「美國文學嘅林肯」稱號。
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- 人生在世，一定要逆來順受，千其唔好浪費時間，做冇益嘅煩惱。
- 問題唔係蠢人特別多，而係閃電冇準確劈中佢哋。
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- 大話行咗半個世界，真話先啱啱起身行。
- 開心唔係一件自我存在嘅嘢，佢淨係其他唔開心嘢嘅一個相對比照，呢樣嘢就係開心。
Happiness ain't a thing in itself --- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. That's all it is.
- 冇錢係所有罪惡嘅根源。
- 真正嘅大不敬係唔尊重人哋嘅神。
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
- 每一個人一出世都會有一樣資產，佢比其他所有嘅資產價值都高，就是佢最後一口氣。
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others --- his last breath.
- 好家教在於收埋我哋對自己好嘅評價，同埋收埋我哋對人哋差嘅評價。
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- 「名聲」好似蒸氣，「聲望」好似意外；喺地球上面唯一可以確定嘅嘢係俾人遺忘。
Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- 「原則」係「偏見」嘅花名。
Principles is another name for prejudice.
- 「必要」唔識任何法律。
Necessity knows no law.
- 當你為愛情而釣魚嗰陣，要用你嘅心做餌，而唔係用你個腦。
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- 如果所有的人都是富有的，那麼所有的人都是貧窮的。
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- 首先去攞你嘅事實，然後你先至可以隨心所欲恁扭曲誤解佢。
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
- 一個人最危險嘅敵人係佢自己個口才。
The deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue....
- 一本有惡意嘅書唔會傷害到任何人，除咗寫佢條懵炳。
A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it.
- 預言係人類唯一一項唔可以通過練習而改善嘅技術。
Prophesying was the only human art that couldn't be improved by practice.
- 當一個人讀聖經嗰陣，佢對上帝所知程度嘅驚訝係低過佢對上帝所唔知程度嘅驚訝。
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what he doesn't know.
- 亞當真係一位老懵懂，佢本來一切順利，而且佢已經成功贏到社區入面最靚女嘅女仔嘅芳心，但係佢唔滿足於自己嘅征服成果，結果走去食嗰個可憐嘅蘋果仔。
What a fool old Adam was. Had everything his own way; had succeeded in gaining the love of the best looking girl in the neighborhood, but yet unsatisfied with his conquest he had to eat a miserable little apple.
- 印度有兩百萬個神，重要全部都崇拜澌。喺宗教上其他國家都係死窮鬼，印度係唯一嘅百萬富翁。
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
- 有一個人由天堂嚟到人間遊埠，佢所用嘅係有效三十日嘅減價飛，佢諗住要的賣咗佢嘅回程飛。
Ingersoll's story of the man that went down from heaven on a reduced-rate excursion ticket good for 30 days --- and tried to sell his return ticket.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.