Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker, (attributed)
US department store merchant (1838 - 1922)

 我花在廣告上的錢有一半都浪費了，問題是我不知道是哪一半。 

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt 

 我們不該等靈感來臨時才動手，因為行動常常能激發靈感、靈感卻鮮少促使行動。

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry
US columnist & humorist (1947 - )

 年輕只有一次，但幼稚卻可能長伴。

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) 

 一群經濟學家共聚ㄧ堂，是不會有什麼共識的。

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

 如果你想跟別人說實話，先讓他們笑，不然你會被幹掉。

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Marquis de la Grange
(1639 - 1692)

 我們說要尋求建議的時候，通常只是想找個人蓋章而已。

1. Never tell everything at once.

Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life

 人生守則第一條：不要一次就把事情都說完。

Bob: 光看這個很難理解"everything"是指哪方面，可能需要看下文。

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten
US (Polish-born) author (1908 - )

 錢當然買不到快樂，但貧窮也買不到。

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Joe Ancis

 只有不太熟的人才會被你當作是正常人

I don't really trust a sane person.

Lyle Alzado
US football player (1949 - 1992)

 我不真的那麼信任所謂理智的人

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

 每個月都存點錢，那麼年底你就會驚覺原來自己這麼窮。

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock
British movie director (1899 - 1980)

 戲如人生，只是把蠢事刪去了。

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

 「快樂」不過是擁有健康的身體，以及差勁的記性。

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Sir Francis Bacon
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

 差勁的探險家在眼前只見一片汪洋時，總認為遠方沒有陸地。

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

 所謂的教育就是公營回音製造廠

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951)

 如果世人從不做蠢事，也就不會有人成就明智之舉了

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon

 越少真理的地方越多專家