《老爸老妈的浪漫史》（How I Met Your Mother直译为：我是怎样遇见你们母亲的）以Ted(乔什·拉德诺饰)寻找人生伴侣的恋爱故事、生活阅历等为主线，描述了他在此过程中人生价值观、亲情友情观、爱情观的变化。
该剧以Marshall和Lily的恋爱、婚后生活等为辅线，讲述了二人由恋爱走向婚姻生活的来之不易，青年壮志与为生活所迫而从事背道而驰的事业的冲突与抉择，面对失去亲人、失业等挫折洗礼后乐观、顽强的走向蜕变的历程......
它不仅是一部幽默搞笑的情景喜剧，而且包含了许多人生哲理，同时掺杂着许多现实因素，比如失业、工作与理想的矛盾、失去亲人的痛苦与随后慢慢走向乐观的人生转变等等，因此也不乏温情、感动与教育意义。
和千千万万个年轻人一样，你我每天都在为了梦想、家庭在某个角落默默忙碌着。在那些看不到未来的夜里，我们可能会问自己的人生究竟会何去何从？现在的努力是否会照亮未来的路？这样的生活还要持续多久？…… 处于一段感情中时，我们也会遇到各种迷茫，ta是那个对的人吗？爱情终究抵不过现实？要选择将就吗？…...
那么今天，英语君就和大家一起来听听How I Met Your Mother中那些直扣心扉的经典台词，或许，我们都会找到一些答案。
友情篇
You see, kids, there’s no way of knowing for sure where the safest place is… so the best you can hope for is to have some good company.
孩子们，你永远没法确定什么地方最安全，所以你只能期望能有三两好友陪在身旁。
Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.
无论你今生做什么，没有朋友在你身旁见证，就算不上是传奇。
人生篇
The future is scary. But you can’t just run back to the past, because it’s familiar.
未来很可怕，但是你不能因为熟悉过去就一直待在原来的地方。
（我们不该永远待在原有的舒适圈中，而是要勇敢地对生活说：Challenge accepted）
Sometimes… things have to fall apart to make way for better things.
可能有时候，为了给更好的事物让路，有些事物不得不破碎。
Life is full of changes. One day you have an apartment, the next day it's a house of dumplings. But the important stuff doesn't change. To the important stuff.
生活是充满挑战的。今天你还拥有一间公寓，但改天也许就变成饺子馆了。但一些重要的东西是不会改变的。为那些重要的东西干杯。
Life is short, and if you ever come across a beautiful, exciting, crazy moment in it, you gotta seize it while you can before that moment's gone.
人生苦短，如果有机会碰到美丽、激动、疯狂的时刻，就得在那一刻消失之前紧紧把握住。
You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
你不能对过去念念不忘，因为无论你把回忆抓得多紧，它早已悄无声息地消失。
Kids, in life there are a lot of big romantic moments. And they make life worth living. But here’s the problem: moments pass, and lurking just around the corner from those moments is a cruel, unshaven bastard named reality.
孩子们，人生中有很多非常浪漫的时刻，正是这些时刻让生活变得有意义。不过，问题在于，浪漫时刻转瞬即逝，而在浪漫时刻的角落里却潜伏着一个残酷不仁而又胡子啦喳的混蛋，他的名字叫现实。
While baseball, strippers, and guns can’t help, the only thing that can really heal a broken heart is time.
棒球、脱衣舞娘、手枪都不起作用，惟一可以真正治愈那颗破碎的心的只有时间。
爱情篇
None of us can vow to be perfect. In the end all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we've got. Because love's the best thing we do.
没有人可以发誓做到完美，最后我们能保证的只有深爱彼此，倾尽所有。因为爱是最美好的事。
Kids, before I met your mother, when I was still out there searching, I learned something valuable. That love is not a science. You see, sometimes in life you just have to accept that certain things can’t be explained. And that’s kind of scary.
孩子们，遇见你们老妈之前，当我还在寻找另一半时，我学到了一点，那就是爱情不是科学。你们瞧，有时候，你们必须接受，生活中有些事情是解释不了的，而且会让人感到震惊。
The early bloom of romantics is a wonderful thing. You meet someone, you have a connection, and that person becomes sheer perfection in your eyes. You just can’t find anything wrong with them. You can’t wait to tell the world about it.
爱情初绽时十分美好。你们遇见一个人，对她有了好感，那个人在你眼中就会变得完美无瑕。你就是找不到她们的缺点，并迫不及待地要告诉全世界。
Kids，when you are single, all you're looking for is happily ever after. But only one of your stories can end that way the rest ended with somebody get hurt.
孩子，当你们单身的时候，以为感情的结局就是王子公主永远过上幸福快乐的生活。但在你所有的感情经历中，只会有一个是以这种方式结尾，其它都以至少有一个人受伤而告终。
When you're single, and your friends start to get married, every wedding invitation presents a strange moment of self-evaluation: "Will you be bringing a guest, or will you be attending alone?"
你还单身的时候，你周围的朋友开始步入婚姻的殿堂。每个婚礼邀请贴都会引发让人心酸的自我评估：您是独自赴约还是偕伴前来？
[On being dumped by his bride-to-be]Kids, you may think your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone’s face.There’s a third option: you can just let it go, and only when you do that it is really gone, and you can move forward.And that, kids, was the perfect ending to a perfect love story. It just wasn’t mine. Mine was still out there waiting for me.
[在婚礼上被新娘甩了之后]孩子们，也许你们认为只有两种选择：忍气吞声或者把气撒在别人身上。其实还有第三种选择：让它过去，也只有这样做了，一切才会消失，你才可以开始新的生活。孩子们，这才是完美爱情的完美结局。只是爱人不是她，我的爱还在某个地方等着我。
Learn about relationships is that you’re never done getting to know someone. Everyone has secrets. Some are nice. Some aren’t as nice.
关于爱情，你们要学习的一点就是，你永远都不会完完全全了解一个人。人人都有秘密。有些是好的，有些不是。
First there's the moment when you think you think it. There’s the moment you think you know it. There’s the moment where you know you know it, but you can’t yet say it. And then there’s the moment where you know you know it, and you can’t keep it in any longer.
开始的时候，你意识到自己开始思考这事；之后你意识到你确实爱他；再后来你知道你爱他，但你说不出口；再到后来，你知道你爱他，但你再也忍不住想说出来。
Guys are like subway really, you miss one; the next will come in 5 minutes.
男人就像地铁，你错过了一班，下一班会在5分钟内到达。