Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.-- W.M.Thackeray
你大胆,天下就会让步。假若偶然它克服你,你要不绝地大胆再大胆,它就会屈服。 -- W.M. 萨克雷
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings. American humorist)
友谊就像陶器,破了可以修补;爱情好比镜子,一旦打破就难重圆。(美国幽默作家 比林斯 .J.)
Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)
离别之于爱情好比风之于火,它能将小火熄灭,使大火熊熊燃烧。(法国作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)