1. What is a date really, but a job interview that last all night? Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage, 1993

   约会到底是什么？就是持续一晚上的求职面试？

2. I was always meeting men who didn’t want to get involved. I dated my last boyfriend for about two years and finally I just gave him an ultimatum. I said, ‘Listen, either you tell me your name or it’s over.’ Rita Rudner, A Gala Comedy Hour , ITV, 1996

   我约会总是遇到不愿投入的男士。我上一个男朋友谈了大约两年，最终还是给他下了最后通牒。我说：“听着，要么你告诉我你叫什么，要么吹。”

3. A: So how’s your super-efficient new deaf-aid working? B: Half past three. Anon.

   A ： 那你这超级功效的新助听器戴起来效果怎样？ B ：三点半。

4. Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down. Graffito, London, 1978

   死亡是老天让你慢下来的方式。

5. If my doctor told me I only had six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. Isaac Asimov, Life , 1984

   要是我的医生告诉我，我只能活六分钟了，我就不沉思了。我会打字打得再快些。

6. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker s prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British statesman and orator, on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1949

   我已准备好去见到上帝了。对于见我的严峻考验，上帝是否准备好，那是另外一回事。

7. Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings , 1919

   千万别陷入（撞）债务，如果你能找到其它什么东西撞的话。

8. If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. John Paul Getty, 1892-1976, American ndustrialist

   如果你欠银行 100 元，那是你的难题。如果你欠银行 100 亿，那就是银行的难题。

9. I have no plans and no plans to have plans. Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York, 1983-94

   我没有计划，也没有做计划的计划。

10. You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. Sydney J. Harris, 1917-86, American journalist

  你可以肯定，当一个人开始自称现实主义者时，他正准备要做他私下感到羞耻的事。