愛情與家庭
1. love is the mother of love.
情生情, 愛生愛。
----- 英語諺語
2. the heart that once truly loves never forgets.
真正戀愛過的心永不遺忘。
3. without respect, love cannot go far.
沒有尊重的愛難以久存。
4. the course of true love never did run smooth.
真正的愛情之路永不會是平坦的。
-----shakespeare 莎士比亞
5. it is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福。
6. complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.
精誠所致, 金石為開。
7. love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
情人不僅彼此相愛, 而且有許多共同愛好時, 愛才能持久。
8. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼裡出西施。
9. absence makes the heart grow fonder.
越是不見越想念。
----- 英語諺語
10. between two stools you fall to the ground.
欲坐雙凳必墜地。
11. blood is thicker than water.
血比水濃。
12. first thrive and then wive.
先立業, 後成家。
13. marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
匆促結婚必後悔。
14. a good wife and health is a man’s best wealth.
男子的最大財富, 在於妻子賢惠, 自己健康。
----- 英語諺語
15. taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
對人生感到樂趣是女人最好的化妝品。
16. he knows not what love is that has no children.
沒有子女的人不知道什麼是愛。
17. example is better than precept.
身教勝於言教。
18. the value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
結婚的好處並不在於成人可生養孩子, 而在於孩子可助人成熟。
19. be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
休嫌它寒微貧賤, 天涯無處似家園。
-----j. h. payne 佩恩(美國作家)
20. home is home, be it never so homely.
金窩銀窩, 不如自家的草窩。