Tình yêu, hôn nhân và tiền bạc
English Ẩn / hiện bản dịch
Love, Marriage, and Money
Love
1. You can't buy love. But you can pay dearly for it.
2. If you want to read about love and marriage, you'll need two completely different books.
3. You can't put a price on love, but you can surround it with jewelry.
4. Love is a brief period of sanity brought to an end by marriage.
5. If you're in love with yourself, you need never fear a rival.
6. Love your enemy. It'll drive him mad!
7. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
8. Like measles, love is dangerous when it strikes in old age.
9. Everyone should fall in love—and that's a good reason never to marry.
10. To love is to long to be longed for.
Marriage
11. Try to compliment your wife every day, even if it frightens her at first.
12. Keep both eyes wide open before marriage. Afterward, one will do.
13. Marriage is like wine. You can't judge it after just one glass.
14. A woman should marry as early as possible. A man should stay single as long as possible.
15. Eighty percent of men have affairs in America. The rest... have them in Europe.
16. It takes two people to make a marriage work. It takes one to make it fail.
17. A perfect marriage: the wife never asks for what the husband cannot provide.
18. No matter how tightly you hug your money, it will never hug you back.
And Money
19. Every morning, I look for my name on the Forbes list of the world's richest people. If it isn't there, I have to go to work.
20. Borrow money from pessimists. They never expect to get it back.
21. No woman marries for money. They all go through the stage of falling in love with a millionaire before agreeing to marry him.
22. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.
Từ vựng trong truyện
- pay dearly: trả giá đắt
- sanity: sự tỉnh táo
- rival: tình địch; đối thủ
- triumph: chiến thắng
- measles: bệnh sởi
- long to be longed for: khao khát được người khác khao khát
- pessimists: những người bi quan