John Selden frasi celebri
“I predicatori dicono: "Fai come dico, non come faccio."”
Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.
Origine: Da Table Talk, 1689, "Preaching".
da Table Talk, XLVII; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013
Variante: I vecchi amici sono i migliori. Re Giacomo voleva sempre le sue vecchie scarpe; erano più comode ai suoi piedi.
John Selden Frasi e Citazioni
John Selden: Frasi in inglese
“Never king dropped out of the clouds.”
Power.
Table Talk (1689)
“Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.”
Humility.
Table Talk (1689)
“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”
Pope. Compare: "Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed", Oxenstiern (1583–1654).
Table Talk (1689)
Equity.
Table Talk (1689)
“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
“They that govern the most make the least noise.”
Power.
Table Talk (1689)
“Never tell your resolution beforehand.”
Wisdom.
Table Talk (1689)
as reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”
Philosophy.
Table Talk (1689)
“Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.”
Preaching.
Table Talk (1689)
“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”
Pleasure.
Table Talk (1689)
“Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.”
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
“Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.”
Bible, Scripture.
Table Talk (1689)
“Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.”
Wisdom.
Table Talk (1689)
“No man is the wiser for his learning.”
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
