1·The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. - Elias Canetti, Leo.
读着伟大格言创作者们的书籍，心中有一种感觉：他们仿佛是深交的朋友。
2·The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.
随意地打开它，找到一些自己感兴趣的事物，然后合上书沉思，这是读一本格言书而不厌倦它的唯一方法。
3·The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
合众国的最高法院已经退化变质，约翰·马歇尔和约瑟夫·斯托里那训练有素的法律推理已是历史，现在只会写作幸运曲奇中的神秘格言体。
4·The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved, into perpetuity, by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk wisdom, maxims, aphorisms and quotations.
智者的智慧和一个民族的谚语，寓言，民间智慧，格言汇聚而成的时代精华会永存。
5·The book centers on the use of idioms, proverbs and aphorisms.
这本书着重讲成语、谚语以及格言的用法。