
“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”
Origine: Henry VIII
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“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”
Origine: Henry VIII
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”
Nulla vi apparteneva, se non quei pochi centimetri cubi che avevate dentro il cranio.
Origine: 1984
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variante: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variante: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Origine: Fahrenheit 451
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Origine: The Passionate Pilgrim
Origine: The Open Door (1957) This quotation is often contracted into: Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. or paraphrased: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
Fonte: https://le-citazioni.it/autori/viggo-mortensen/
Origine: Notebook
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima
Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Variante: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Origine: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Origine: An Ideal Husband
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Variante: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
Non sto dalla parte dell'uomo di colore, non sto dalla parte dell'uomo bianco, sono dalla parte di Dio.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Variante: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Origine: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 8.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Il successo non è mai definitivo, il fallimento non è mai fatale; è il coraggio di continuare che conta.
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variante: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Origine: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
Variante: She burned too bright for this world.
Origine: The quote is attributed to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, but only first part appears in book. https://books.google.pl/books?id=Aiye9MLNh9EC&q=wild%2C+wicked+slip#v=snippet&q=wild%2C%20wicked%20slip&f=false
A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Contesto: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
Ogni volta che stai per trovare difetti in qualcuno, poniti la seguente domanda: quale mia colpa assomiglia di più a quella che sto per criticare?
Origine: Meditations
“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
La verità è un vestito scomodo e antico, difficile da indossare specialmente se si è costantemente nudi nella propria menzogna!
Origine: Walden
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Book I, 645a.16
Parts of Animals
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
This and many similar quotes with the same general meaning are misattributed to Aristotle as a result of Twitter attribution decay. The original source of the quote remains anonymous. The oldest reference resides in the works of George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "Maxims for Revolutionists", where he claims that “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”. However, the related quote, "Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach" likely originates from Lee Shulman in his explanation of Aristotlean views on professional mastery: Source: Shulman, L. S. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4 - 14. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1175860
Misattributed
Variante: Those who can, do, those who cannot, teach.
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Origine: Moominsummer Madness
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Quando l'uccello del cuore inizia a cantare, troppo spesso la ragione ci tappa le orecchie.
Origine: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Contesto: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Book 4, chapter 1. Often misquoted as "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end".
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
Origine: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Non c';era nessun posto dove andare che non fosse ovunque, quindi continua a girare sotto le stelle.
Origine: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
Il mondo è in cattive condizioni, ma tutto diventerà ancora peggiore se ognuno di noi non farà del suo meglio.
Origine: Man's Search for Meaning
Variante: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Riconoscere il bene che hai già nella tua vita è il fondamento di ogni abbondanza.
Origine: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
Quando un'altra persona ti fa soffrire, è perché soffre profondamente dentro di sé, e la sua sofferenza si sta riversando. Non ha bisogno di punizione; ha bisogno di aiuto. Questo è il messaggio che sta inviando.
“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Was sagt dein Gewissen?
'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
Variant translation: Become who you are.
It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.
Sec. 270
The Gay Science (1882)
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Origine: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Origine: Fireflies
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Origine: Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Origine: Wuthering Heights
“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
… e poi, ho natura, arte e poesia, e se ciò non bastasse, cosa basta?
“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”
La peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi.
La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).
Quotes, 1940's
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Variante: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
Origine: Prayer
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Origine: Fables
Variante: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Non c'è niente che non farei per coloro che sono veramente miei amici. Non ho la capacità di amare le persone a metà, non è la mia natura.
Origine: Northanger Abbey
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
First attributed to Lincoln in 2002, this seems a paraphrase of a statement in the Lyceum address of 1838, while incorporating language used by Thomas E. Dewey (c. 1944), who said "By the same token labor unions can never be destroyed from the outside. They can only fail if they fail to lend their united support to full production in a free society".
Misattributed
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9.
1960s
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Non voglio andare in paradiso. Lì non c’è nessuno dei miei amici.
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Sei quello che fai, non quello che dici che farai.
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Origine: The Alchemist
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Origine: The Sun Also Rises
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variante: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Origine: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
Se tremi di indignazione per ogni ingiustizia, allora sei mio compagno.
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variante: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
La causa primaria dell'infelicità non è mai la situazione, ma i tuoi pensieri a riguardo.
Variante: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Origine: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Origine: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Variante: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Origine: Beyond Good and Evil
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
Origine: Julius Caesar
“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Origine: Thus Spoke Zarathustra