转载 人生感悟

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Money is not everything. There‘s Mastercard & Visa.
　　钞票不是万能的，有时还需要信用卡。
　　
　　One should love animals. They are so tasty.

　　每个人都应该热爱动物，因为它们很好吃。
　　
　　Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

　　要节约用水，尽量和女友一起洗澡。
　　
　　Love the neighbor. But don‘t get caught.

　　要用心去爱你的邻居，不过不要让她的老公知道。
　　
　　Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

　　每个成功男人的背后，都有一个女人。每个不成功男人的背后，都有两个。
　　
　　Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

　　再快乐的单身汉迟早也会结婚，幸福不是永久的嘛。
　　
　　The wise never marry, And when they marry they become otherwise.

　　聪明人都是未婚的，结婚的人很难再聪明起来。

　　Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

　　成功是一个相关名词，他会给你带来很多不相关的亲戚（联系）。
　　
　　Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

　　不要等明天交不上差再找借口，今天就要找好。
　　
　　Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.

　　爱情就象照片，需要大量的暗房时间来培养。 （老外也保守，要摸黑办事，哈哈）
　　
　　Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

　　后排座位上的小孩会生出意外，后排座位上的意外会生出小孩。
　　
　　"Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.

　　“现在的梦想决定着你的将来”，所以还是再睡一会吧。
　　
　　There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

　　应该有更好的方式开始新一天，而不是千篇一律的在每个上午都醒来。
　　
　　"Hard work never killed anybody." But why take the risk? "

　　“努力工作不会导致死亡！”不过我不会用自己去证明。

　　"Work fascinates me." I can look at it for hours! "

　　“工作好有意思耶！”尤其是看着别人工作。


自 旺旺英语

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今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的高速公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘
Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view.



我们消耗极多，享受到的却很少
We spend more, but enjoy less.

我们住的房屋大了，但我们的家庭成员却越来越少了
We have bigger houses, but smaller families.

我们有了更多的妥协余地，可时间却少了
We have more compromises, but less time.

我们拥有了更多的知识，但我们的判断力却差了
We have more knowledge, but less judgement.

我们有了更多的药品，可我们的健康状况却不尽如人意
We have more medicines, but less health.

我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

我们谈论得很多，但我们所爱的却很少，我们的仇恨也更多了
We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much.

我们可以往返月球，但却很难迈出一步去亲近我们的左亲右邻
We reached the Moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors.

我们可以征服太空，却征服不了我们的内心
We have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space.

我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了
We have higher income, but less morals.

我们的时代更加之自由了，而我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少了
These are times with more liberty, but less joy.

我们有了更多的食品供应，但我们所能得到的营养却越来越少了
We have much more food, but less nutrition.

现在每个家庭都可以有双份的收入，但离婚的现象却越来越多了
These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase.

我们可以有越来越精致的住房，但同时我们也有了更多破碎的家庭
These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes.

这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始
That’s why I propose, that as of today,

不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别
You do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.

坐在你家的房屋前廊，多读一些书，去寻找更多的知识，以赞美的眼光去享受你眼前的风景，不要带有任何功利的想法
Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.

花多点时间与你的家人及朋友在一起，吃你想吃的食物，去你爱去的地方
Spend more time with your family and friends, eat your favorite foods, visit the places you love.

生活就是由一连串快乐时光组成的时光链，我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存
Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival.

举起你珍藏的水晶高脚杯吧，不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，任何时候你想用就享用吧
Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.

从你的词汇库中移去那些所谓的“有那么一天”或者是“某一天”
Remove from your vocabulary phrases like “one of these days” and “someday”.

你曾打算有那么一天要写的信，请今天就写吧！
Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”.

请告诉我们的家人和朋友，我们是多么得爱他们
Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them.

不要延迟任何可以给你生活带来欢笑和快乐的事情
Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life.

每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别
Every day, every hour, and every minute is special.

因为你不知道这是否是最后一刻
And you don’t know if it will be your last.

如果你太忙了，以至于没有时间将这份信息传达给你所爱的人，请你告诉你自己你会在 “有那么一天”发出去，但要想一想，你想的这一天可能你已经不在了
If you’re too busy to take the time to send this message to someone you love, and you tell yourself you will send it “one of these days”. Just think...“one of these days” you may not be here to send it

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The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV

It's life, Jim... but not as we know it.
Spock

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
Micron

The secret to life is that there is no secret.
"Swampman" on Quartz

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen (1935 - )

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
Tao Te Ching

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vincent T. Lombardi

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Communist Manifesto

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
General Omar Bradley

Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
Unknown

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
G. Weilacher

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer (1928 - )

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
Dr. Suess, Oh, the Places You'll Go

Life is short; live it up.
Khrushchev

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Old Indian saying

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster's Law

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
Unknown

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
Unknown

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James (1842 - 1910)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
The Lockhorns

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
From the last episode of "Cheers"

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
Frederick Buechner

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Unknown

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This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Etty Hilsum

Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
The Best of the Best (motion picture)

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Sir Hugh Walpoe

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
Victor Kiam

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Unknown

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
Ingrid Bengis

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
Unknown

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Unknown

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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
John Paul Richter

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
Unknown

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Keller

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton (1608 - 1674)

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
Marcus, Babylon 5

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown

The most important things in life aren't things.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
Sir Hugh Walpole

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I love the first essay. Though it is not the first time reading it, it still makes me smile:)

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very funny!