笑吧,當你笑時,你的愛人也會一起笑。
愛情與幽默並存
愛情若沒有幽默感,將難以長久。笑聲能點燃戀情的火花,讓感情歷久彌新。許多知名作家與歷史人物曾留下關於愛情的妙語,這些話語能讓你會心一笑。
1. Helen Gurley Brown
“Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.”
「愛情不會毫無預警地降臨,你必須釋放訊號,有點像業餘無線電操作員一樣。」
2. Albert Einstein
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
「女人嫁給男人,希望他們會改變;男人娶了女人,希望她們永遠不變。所以,雙方註定會失望。」
3. Sigmund Freud
“The great question...which I have not been able to answer...is, 'What...does a woman want?'”
「有一個偉大的問題……我一直無法解答……那就是:『女人到底想要什麼?』」
4. Samuel Johnson
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
「婚姻是想像力戰勝理智的勝利。第二次婚姻則是希望戰勝經驗的勝利。」
5. Judith Viorst
“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
「愛情比車禍、緊身馬甲、較高的稅率,或是在費城上空盤旋等待降落來得愉快多了。」
6. Agatha Christie
“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
「考古學家是女人最好的丈夫,因為她越老,他就對她越感興趣。」
7. Remy de Gourmont
“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”
「女人仍然記得第一次親吻,而男人卻已經忘了最後一次。」
8. Mignon McLaughlin
“Mumps, measles and puppy love are terrible after 20.”
「腮腺炎、麻疹和初戀,在 20 歲以後都很可怕。」
9. Erma Bombeck
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
「婚姻沒有保證。如果你想要保證,那就去和汽車電池一起生活吧。」
10. Michel de Montaigne
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
「一段美滿的婚姻,是由一位盲目的妻子與一位耳聾的丈夫組成的。」
11. Rick Reilly
“The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.”
「婚姻中最偉大的發明,就是電視的暫停播放按鈕。」
12. Janet Periat
“Husbands and wives are so irritating. But without them, who would we blame for misplacing our socks?”
「夫妻之間真的很惱人,但如果沒有他們,我們該怪誰弄丟了襪子呢?」
13. Ogden Nash
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.”
「想讓婚姻充滿愛, 愛意如溢滿酒杯, 當你錯了,請承認; 當你對了,請閉嘴。」
14. Janet Periat
“Why do married people live longer than single people? I think it's because married people make a special effort to live longer than their partner—just so they can have the last word.”
「為什麼已婚人士比單身人士活得更久?我想是因為他們努力活得比伴侶久,好讓自己擁有最後的話語權。」
15. Winston Churchill
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.”
「我最輝煌的成就是成功說服我的妻子嫁給我。」
16. Rose Franken
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
「任何人都可以充滿激情,但只有真正相愛的人才會一起犯傻。」
17. Blaise Pascal
“The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.”
「心有其理智所無法理解的理由。」
18. Christopher Marlowe
“Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
「金錢買不到愛情,但能讓你在談判時占據有利地位。」
19. Jules Renard
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
「愛情就像沙漏,當心裝滿時,腦袋就變空了。」
20. Nick Hornby
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
「如果你的唱片收藏完全不對盤,或你們喜愛的電影根本無法在同一場派對上交流,那就別妄想這段關係會有未來。」
21. Friedrich Nietzsche
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
「一副強力眼鏡有時足以治癒一個陷入愛情的人。」
22. Oscar Wilde
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
「女人是用來被愛的,不是用來被理解的。」
23. John Green
“The Venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.”
「不喜歡聰明女孩的男孩,和你不該約會的男孩,這兩者的維恩圖是一個完美的圓。」
24. Robert Fulghum
“When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
「當我們找到一個與我們的怪癖相容的人,我們便會與他結合,沉浸在彼此滿足的怪異之中——我們稱之為愛情,真正的愛情。」
25. W. Somerset Maugham
“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
「愛情只是大自然設計給我們的一場騙局,目的是確保物種的延續。」
26. James Montgomery Bailey
“When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.”
「當一對深愛彼此的年輕人開始一起吃洋蔥時,可以安全地宣布他們訂婚了。」
27. Nicholas Sparks
“Love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
「我明白了,愛情不只是睡前喃喃說出的三個字。」
28. Helen Rowland
“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring or eating with chopsticks; it looks easy until you try it.”
「婚姻就像旋轉指揮棒、翻筋斗或用筷子吃飯,看起來簡單,直到你真正嘗試。」
29. Franklin P. Jones
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
「愛情不會讓世界運轉,但它讓這趟旅程變得值得。」
30. Paul Valéry
“Love is being stupid together.”
「愛情就是一起變蠢。」
31. Arturo Toscanini
“I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since.”
「我在同一天親了我的第一個女孩,抽了我的第一支菸。從那以後,我再也沒時間抽菸了。」
32. Mark Twain
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
「當你尋找愛情時,請用你的心作餌,而不是大腦。」
33. Albert Einstein
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
「任何能夠在親吻漂亮女孩的同時安全駕駛的男人,顯然沒有把親吻給予應有的重視。」
34. Sophie Monroe
“The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.”
「大腦是最出色的器官,它一天 24 小時,一年 365 天不停地運作,直到你墜入愛河。」
35. Judith Viorst
“Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.”
「愛和喜歡的區別就是,愛讓你感覺更性感。」
36. Albert Einstein
“Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.”
「萬有引力不應為人們墜入愛河負責。」
37. H.L. Mencken
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
「愛情就像戰爭:開始容易,但很難停下來。」
這些幽默的愛情名言,是否讓你會心一笑?無論是戀愛中的你,還是單身的你,愛情總是充滿了趣味與智慧。