Quotes

Everything under the sun was accomplished through hard work,except for culture which was nurtured in leisure.

—— Yu Guangzhong, poet

天下的事儿都是忙出来的，唯独文化是闲出来的。

——诗人余光中

Playing, learning,accomplishing, appreciating,abandoning and dying constitute a whole life.

——Pu Cunxin, actor

人生不外乎玩、学、做、悟、舍、了。

——演员濮存昕

The key to survival is remaining stupid without knowing how stupid you are.

——Wang Xiaobo, writer

活下去的诀窍是：保持愚蠢，又不能知道自己有多蠢。

——作家王小波

Women are often emotional.Yet educated women are merely unreasonable with their relatives and friends, while uneducated women are unreasonable with everyone. For all people, the only thing completely reasonable is Xinhua Chinese Dictionary.

——Zhang Quanling, journalist and TV hostess

不讲道理是女人的专利。受过教育的女人对自己人不讲道理，没受过教育的对所有人不讲道理，全部讲道理的是新华字典。

——主持人张泉灵

Natural gifts can be a bullet in the mid-air. The distance it fl ies depends on its energy. Though, it will have to land somewhere.

——Bi Feiyu, author

天赋好比发射出去的子弹，射得多远取决于它的能量，但总有下降的时候。

——作家毕飞宇

We promised to be together till our hair turns grey, but we always hesitate about getting our hair colored.

——Author Qiao Ye on midlife dilemma

说好一起到白头，经常犹豫去焗油。

——作家乔叶如此描述中年困顿

It isn’t easy to always remain proud and upstanding. Humility is simple, though, all you need to do is to stoop over. Being proud means that you must stand straight and you need something to back you.

——Chen Daoming, actor

傲不是一件容易的事，谦虚倒是容易，只要弯下腰就行了。傲却要挺直腰板，总得有什么撑得住腰吧。

——演员陈道明