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

—— Yu Guangzhong, poet

天下的事兒都是忙出來的，唯獨文化是閑出來的。

——詩人余光中

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

——Pu Cunxin, actor

人生不外乎玩、學(xué)、做、悟、舍、了。

——演員濮存昕

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

——Wang Xiaobo, writer

活下去的訣竅是：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

不講道理是女人的專利。受過教育的女人對自己人不講道理，沒受過教育的對所有人不講道理，全部講道理的是新華字典。

——主持人張泉靈

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

天賦好比發(fā)射出去的子彈，射得多遠(yuǎn)取決于它的能量，但總有下降的時候。

——作家畢飛宇

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

說好一起到白頭，經(jīng)常猶豫去焗油。

——作家喬葉如此描述中年困頓

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，謙虛倒是容易，只要彎下腰就行了。傲卻要挺直腰板，總得有什么撐得住腰吧。

——演員陳道明