Hawk
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth. – Theodore Reik
戀情或友誼都可能讓我們失望、不管用、不成功,
唯有親子關係;雖然不像其它的那麼喧鬧,卻是難以磨滅且堅不可摧的,是地球上最牢固的關係。
Emma
A father is a banker provided by nature. – French Proverb
父親是大自然中的銀行家。 -- 法國諺語
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve you father’s he’s more particular.
– Robert Frost 羅拔佛洛斯特
你不必是值得的; 就可得到母親的愛,但你必須是值得的; 才可能獲得父親的愛,他是較為苛求的。
Vivian
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell
同伴或許是喜歡這個人的特殊身分或特質,但對朋友來說,他喜歡的單純就是這個人。
Cloud
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. – Elbert Hubbard
父母若為孩子做的太多,孩子自然不會 (也不能) 為自己做得多。
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
— Isadora Duncan 父母能給孩子最好的,就是容許他們靠自己的雙腳,走自己的路。
Bill
There is scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. -Thomas Fuller
通常缺乏的是友誼,而不是朋友。
Acquaintance, (n.)
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -Ambrose Pierce
點頭之交 (名詞)
我們所認識的這個人,關係好到足以讓我們可以跟他借錢,但還不夠好到可以把錢借他。
Collin
An angry father is most cruel toward himself. – Publilius Syrus
當一個父親生氣時,往往是對他自己本身很殘忍或難受的。
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. – Moorish Proverb
儘管只是隻小甲蟲,但在甲蟲媽媽眼中,它仍像一隻瞪羚那般美好。 ... 摩爾諺語


