我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
不了解敌情,不可以行军打仗,不熟悉洋人的情况,不可以远谋。
The only possible way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.