俏皮而深刻的话

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Peter de Vries（1910－1993）是美国著名编辑、小说家，善于冷嘲热讽。下面试译一些他的俏皮而深刻的话，以此祝大家端午节快乐！
 

The whole thing about matrimony is this: we fall in love with a personality, but we must live with a character.

 婚姻的真谛在于：我们爱上的是一个人的个性，但是，我们必须朝夕相处的乃是一个人的品性。

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

人人都恨我，因为我是如此地到处受欢迎。

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

我愿意无聊至死，这种死亡方式不比其他方式差。

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

我灵感来了才写作，不过我做到了让灵感每天上午九点钟来临。

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

上帝全知全能的最终证据在于：他即使不存在都能拯救我们。

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

在餐馆里挂壁画同在博物馆里吃东西属于同一档次的行为。

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
怀旧也不再是过去那个样子了。

satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

讽刺作家好比是开枪就要毙命，幽默作家则要活捉猎物，最后仍旧将其放走，以便有再次活捉的机会。

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

宇宙好比一个保险箱，知道密码就能打开。可是，密码被锁在保险箱里面了。

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

婚姻的价值不在于成人造出了孩子，而在于孩子造就了成人。（译为“造就”，是王守业老师的建议。）

原文出处: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/peter_de_vries_2.html#ixzz1OMcBczuh