if your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?benjiamin franklin, american president 如果财富是你的,那么你为什 么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢?美国总统富兰克林.b. it is better to live rich than to die rich.samuel johnson, british writer 与 其在死时后中握着一大把钱,还不如活着的时候活得丰富多采。英国作家约翰逊.s. it is good to have money to buy things that money can buy ,but it is better not to lose things money cannot buy. george h. lorimer, american journalist 有钱去买能得到的东西当然不错,但是不丢失用金钱买不到的东西更好。美国记者洛里 默.g.h. men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.john stuart mill, british economist 人们不仅希望富有,而且希望比他 人更富有。英国经济学家穆勒.j.s money is a good servant and a bad master.francis bacon, british philosopher 金钱是善仆,也是恶主。英 国哲学家培根.f. money is a singular thing, it ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. and with death as his greatest source of anxiety.j.k, galbraith, american economist 钱是最奇怪地东西,当它和爱情在一起 时候,是人 类幸福最大的源泉;当它和死亡联系在一起的时候,是人类焦虑的最重要缘由。美国经 济学家加尔布雷斯.j.k. money is like muck, not good except it be spread.francis bacon, baritish phlosopher 金钱好比粪肥,只有撒到大地才 是有用之物。英国哲学家培根.f. money is not the root of all eviles as is usually claimed, what is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and greedy pusuit of mnoey.nathaniell hawthorn, american writer 金钱并非像平常说的那样是万恶之源。而对金钱的贪图,既对金钱过分的、自 私的、贪婪的追求,才是一切邪恶的根源。美国作家霍桑.n. money is the sinews of love, as of war.george farquhar, irish dramatist 金钱是爱情的 支柱,犹如金钱是战争的支柱一样。爱尔兰剧作家法夸尔.g. money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. it brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.henrik ibsen, norwegian dramatist 金钱 可以是许多东西的外壳,却不是里面的果实。它带来食物,却带不来胃口;带来药,却带不 来健康;带来相识,却带不来友谊;带来仆人,却带不来他们的忠心;带来享受,却带不来 幸福的宁静。挪威剧作家易卜生.h money will buy a pretty dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.j, billings, american humorist 金钱能买到 一条不错的狗,但是买不到它的摇动尾巴。美国幽默作家比林斯.j. no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.franklin roosevelt, american pesident 任何一个国家,不管它多么富裕,都浪费不起人力资 源。美国总统罗斯福.f. poverty is an abnormality to rich people. it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.walter bagehot, buetish economist 对于富人来说,贫穷是不可理解的异常现象:他们怎么 也弄不明白,那些想要吃饭的人,为什么不摇铃让人送来呢?英国经济学家巴杰 特.w.
sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
albert einstein, american scientist 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
美国科 学家爱因斯坦.a.
that man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
henry david thoreau, american writer 能处处寻求快乐的人才是最 富有的人。
美国作家梭罗.h.d
the fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweet.
john gay, british dramatist and plet 啜饮密糖的苍蝇在甜蜜中丧生。
英国剧作家、诗人盖伊.j.
the human species, according to the best theory i can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
charles lamb, british essayist 按照我所能归纳的最好理论, 人类是由两个截然不同的种族构成的,即借方与出借方。
英国散文家兰姆,c.
the only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them.
a. r .ricvarol, french writer 财富对有些人只做了一件事:使他们担 心会失去财富。
法国作家里瓦罗尔.a.r.
the vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error, and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
margrerite blessington, irish writer
富人和伟人的罪恶被错当作谬误,穷人和凡人的过失 却被错当作犯罪。
爱尔兰作家布莱辛顿.m
there are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.
miguel de cervantes, spanish novelist 正如我的一位祖母说过的 那样,这个世界上只有两家人:那就是富人和穷人。
西班牙小说家塞万提斯.m.
those who have some means think that the most impo rtant thing in the world is love. the poor know that it is money.
gerald brenan, british writer 手头 上有点钱的人认为爱是世界上最重要的东西,而穷人则明白世界上最重要的是金钱。
英 国作家布伦南.g.
to suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
logan pearsall smith, american weiter 如果以为我们变富后 不会像有钱人那样行事,这无异地以为我们能终日豪饮,但又能保持头脑清醒。
美国作 家史密斯.l.p.
wealth may be an exscellent thing, for it means power. leisure, and liberty.
james russell lowell, british plet and critic 财富 也许是好东西,因为它意味着权力、安逸和自由。
英国诗人、批评家洛威尔.j.r.