We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们都生活在阴沟里，
但仍有人仰望星空。
想必很多人都知道奥斯卡·王尔德的这句励志名言？
但你可能不知道，他还号称腐国第一“毒舌”，是一个来自19世纪的段子手，一个引领腐国人民高端黑风潮一百多年的吐槽大师。
不信？往下看，50条反鸡汤金句，专治各种不服。
1
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。
2
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiveing one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.
恋爱，总是以自欺开始，以欺人结束。
3
No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
没有人富到可以赎回自己的过去。
4
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。
5
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
当爱情走到尽头，软弱者哭个不停，有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，而聪明的早就预备好了下一个。
6
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
7
The heart was made to be broken.
心是用来碎的。
8
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。
9
Only the shallow know themselves.
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
10
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑……我能抗拒一切，除了诱惑。
11
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
12
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
犬儒主义者知道所有东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值。
13
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
我喜欢人甚于原则，此外我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切。
14
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。
15
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没人议论你。
16
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual
什么也不做，是世上最难的事情，最困难并且最智慧。
17
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的，爱亦然。
18
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
注意穿着打扮是必要的。而拥有生活目标却并非如此。
19
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有两种悲剧:一种是不能遂愿，另一种是心想事成。
20
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言，用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
21
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚；最终他们都会失望。
22
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
23
When a woman marries again,it is because she detested her first husband.When a man marries again,it is because he adored his first wife.
女人再嫁是因为憎恶前夫，男人再娶是因为太爱前妻。
24
Men become old, but they never become good.
人们越长越老，但绝不会越变越好。
25
When I was young , I used to think that money was the most important thing in life , now that I am old , I know it is.
我年轻时以为金钱至上，而今年事已迈，发现果真如此。
26
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
情感的好处就是让我们引入歧途，而科学的好处是不感情用事。
27
It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
把人分成好坏挺荒谬的，人，要不就迷人，要不就乏味。
28
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
对富有的单身汉应该客以重税。让某些人比其他人更快乐是不公平的。
29
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定是错了。
30
Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。
31
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
人们给自己犯过的错误取名叫经验。
32
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每半年就换一拨。
33
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。
34
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入堕落、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。
35
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿小十岁，她就一定会心满意足。
36
Bad artists always admire each other's work.
糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。
37
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。
38
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
不要给女人忠告；决不要给女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的东西。
39
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要时刻牢记，没有什么值得知道的事是教得会的。
40
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.
我简直太聪明了，有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。
41
I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.
我喜欢对一堵墙说话，世界上只有它不会反驳我。
42
I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
我想，上帝在创造人类时高估了他的能力。
43
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
美丽要比善良好，善良要比难看强。
44
It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
来自敌人的困难可以忍，来自朋友的成功则无可忍。
45
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
人生就是一件蠢事追着另一件蠢事而来，而爱情则是两个蠢东西追来追去。
46
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。
47
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
对于忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送给别人。忠告从来就不是给自己准备的。
48
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
女人代表着物质战胜了理智，正如男人代表着理智战胜了道德。
49
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
一个极其优秀的人；他没有敌人，而他的朋友也没有一个喜欢他的。
50
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
说真话的人，迟早要被揭穿。
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