I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?
我相信人應該就象每天都是最后的日子那樣生活,這可以解釋為什么我沒有干凈衣服——因為,得了吧,誰在生命的最后幾天里還想洗衣服?
充分利用自己的長處,享受生活。
People with large noses can smell the better things in life.
長著大鼻子的人能聞到生活中更美好的東西。
既要腳踏實地,真實地生活,又要充滿希望,對未來充滿著渴望和向往。
Life is complex. It has real and imaginary components
生活是復雜的,包含了真實和想象的成分。
要勇于體驗各種生活,快樂嘗試不同的生活。
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
人一生中最后悔的傻事是那些有機會做卻沒有做的事。
人們愿意和你一起分享快樂,并不一定愿意分擔你的臭味兒。
微笑世界和你一起微笑,放屁你獨自站在一邊。
Smile and the world smiles with you, fart [放屁] and you stand alone.
努力把工作變成樂趣。
Work is work if you are paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
如果別人出錢你工作,那工作就是工作,但如果你出錢才讓你工作,那工作就是樂趣。
不要做守財奴,要積極享受生活。
He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. He lived frugally, saved his money, and died early, surrounded by greedy[貪婪的] relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
他不喝酒,不吸煙,不騎自行車,非常節儉,攢下了錢,早早就死了,死后來了一大幫貪婪的親戚,這給我上了生動的一課。
現在人人都在想方設法掙錢,如果你連掙錢的時間都擠不出來,那也挺牛的。
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
我可浪費不起時間去掙錢。
放棄焦慮,保持心情愉快。
I wonder why pople are always in anxiety when it is not difficult to be happy.
我很奇怪要心情愉快也不難,可為什么人們總是焦慮不安。
象國王一樣高興。
I was as happy as a king ----indeed a lot happier than most kings I have met.
我象國王一樣高興——事實上我比我遇見的大多數國王還高興。。
注:這又是一種幽默表達方式,實際上你可能沒見過國王。
有人老是抱怨生活枯燥,沒意思,但生活中平安也是一種幸福。
If you find life a bit dull at home, and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the kitchen fire.
如果你感覺家里有點兒枯燥,想娛樂一下自己,就在廚房里火上放一管炸藥吧.。
一直面戴微笑的人是傻子,所以暫時不快樂是正常人的表現。
When Lord Berners returned, many years later, to visit his old school, he was astonished to observe nothing but smiling faces…only to learn that it was a school no more that the building was a lunatic asylum.[精神病醫院]
伯納公爵多年后回來訪問他的母校時,他吃驚地看到人們全是笑臉…,后來才知道那已經不再是學校了,已經改成了一所精神病醫院?
如果有能力借錢生活,是不是也是力所能及的生活呢?
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
我們要在力所能及的情況下愉快地生活,即使不得不借錢這樣做。