保持幸福的几条箴言

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?  

 

People with large noses can smell the better things in life. 

 

Life is complex. It has real and imaginary components¹.

 

The follies² which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

 

Smile and the world smiles with you, fart（放屁） and you stand alone.

 

Work is work if you are paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

 

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. He lived frugally³, saved his money, and died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

 

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

 

I wonder why pople are always in anxiety when it is not difficult to be happy.

 

I was as happy as a king -- indeed a lot happier than most kings I have met.

 

If you find life a bit dull at home, and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite⁴（炸药） in the kitchen fire.

 

When Lord Berners returned, many years later, to visit his old school, he was astonished to observe nothing but smiling faces…only to learn that it was a school no more that the building was a lunatic asylum⁵（精神病院）.

 

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

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