父亲节--看外国名人说老爸

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(from 东方文化西方语 by 翟华)

每年6月的第三个周日——今年是6月15日——在美国、日本还有世界上很多国家是父亲节。在中国近几十年来引进的洋节品种中，圣诞节已经深入人心，是不是基督徒到了12月25日都要问声“圣诞快乐”；情人节的操作也颇为成功，母亲节也渐成时尚，即便平时不常回家看看，唯独这个父亲节似乎还不成个气候。究其原因，只怪商家看不出父亲们有什么价值。



借今天这个日子，贴几条国外有关父亲的名人名言或谚语，请各位体味一下老爸的价值。

父亲希望儿子上大学无外乎两个理由：（1）自己上过大学；（2）自己没有上过大学。
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went tocollege or because they didn't.
——L. L. Henderson


当一个男人终于认识到他老爸也许说的不错时，往往他已经有了个儿子，而且这个儿子认为他爸什么都不对。
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, heusually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
——Charles

我爸曾这样告诫我：说话前要字斟句酌，要么有深度，要么有幽默。要是在现实生活中做不到，那就去演电影吧。在电影里演这样一个有深度有幽默的人，也能挣不少钱。
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak uponly when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, orsomething really funny to say. He also taught me that if Icouldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn ahealthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies.
——Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05

做成功父亲的必由之路：当你有了孩子，头两年不要看他。
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when youhave a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
——海明威Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

一个父亲可以对孩子们所做的最重要的事情就是去爱孩子们的母亲。
The most important thing a father can do for his children is tolove their mother.
——佚名


我曾经向父亲倾诉说我无法像其他人一样做事。爸爸的回答是：孩子，别当绵羊，人不喜欢羊，他们吃羊。
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able todo things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo,don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
——Margo Kaufman

儿子：老爸，结婚的成本到底多大？
爸爸：不知道，儿子。我还在付钱呢。
Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don'tknow son, I'm still paying for it”
——佚名


当爸爸向儿子付出时，两人都在笑；当儿子向爸爸付出时，两人都在哭。
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to hisfather, both cry.
——犹太谚语


4岁：爸爸什么都会 4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7岁：爸爸懂得挺多，真挺多  7 years: MyDad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8岁：爸爸也不是懂得那么多  8 years: Myfather does not know quite everything.
12岁：哦，这个吗，爸爸肯定不懂  12years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14岁：唉，老爸？他实在是太老派了 14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21岁：哦，那老人已经落伍了  21 years:Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25岁：他懂点，但不是太多  25 years: Heknows a little bit about it, but not much.
30岁：我必须问问老爸看他怎么想  30years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35岁：最决定之前，先问问老爸的意见 35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.
50岁：要是老爸还在，他会怎么看这件事呢 50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60岁：我爸几乎什么都明白  60 years: MyDad knew literally everything!
65岁：我真想再有机会和爸爸说话  65years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
——佚名


小时候爸爸总是带着我和哥哥在草坪上玩耍。妈妈总是出来喊：你们把草都压坏了！爸爸说：我们不是在养草，在养孩子。
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass.""We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raisingboys."
——Harmon Killebrew


当我14岁的时候，我爸爸什么也不懂，我简直不能忍受这个老头。可是，当我21岁的时候，我惊讶地发现这家伙在七年里怎么学会了这么多东西。
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I couldhardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to betwenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned inseven years.
——马克·吐温（Mark Twain）