Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

Frasi e Citazioni inglesi con traduzione | pagina 12

“When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading”

“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”
Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
Se possiedi la conoscenza, lascia che gli altri vi accendano le loro candele.

“It's all in the mind.”

“No one here gets out alive.”

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”

“If you are falling…. dive.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
La conoscenza parla, ma la saggezza ascolta.

“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

“Love would never leave us alone”
L'amore non ci lascerebbe mai da soli

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
Sono perdutamente innamorato di un ricordo. Un'eco di un altro tempo, di un altro luogo.

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
Non usare il telefono. Le persone non sono mai pronte a rispondere. Usa la poesia.

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
Nessun uomo appesantisce la sua mente con piccole cose a meno che non abbia delle ottime ragioni per farlo.

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”

“When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.”

“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.”

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
Quello che fai in questo mondo è una questione senza conseguenze. La domanda è: cosa puoi far credere alle persone di aver fatto.

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”
Dobbiamo superare l'idea di dover essere regolari... ti toglie la possibilità di essere straordinario e ti conduce alla mediocrità.

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
I miei ieri camminano con me. Tengono il passo, sono facce grigie che sbirciano sulla mia spalla.

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Nessuno è mai diventato povero donando.

“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
Il vero carattere di un uomo si rivela quando è ubriaco.

“What other people think of me is not my business.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
L'ansia è il senso di vertigine della libertà.

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

“To understand is to forgive.”

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”

“Life is too short to learn German”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

“To be in company is not to be with someone, but to be in someone.”

“Charity and treating begin at home.”

“It is inevitable that the mind which does not have a place to turn to or any stable base will undergo change from hour to hour and from minute to minute due to the variety of its distractions, and by the things that come to it from outside it will be continually transformed into whatever occurs to it at any given moment.”

“What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.”

“You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny."”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”
La pazienza è l'arte di sperare.

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.

“I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.”

“The things that change are not our real life. Within us there is another body, another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light which never changes. We must discover how to mingle with it and become one with that unchanging thing. We must realize and understand this treasure of truth. That is why we have come to the world.”

“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”

“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do”

“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.”

“One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.”

“World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”

“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”
Un liberale è un uomo o una donna o un bambino che aspetta un giorno migliore, una notte più tranquilla e un futuro luminoso e infinito.

“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.

“No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.”

“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
La morte di un uomo è solo una morte, quella di due milioni è statistica.

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
La vita è quello che ti accade | mentre sei occupato a fare altri progetti.

“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.”

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”

“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”

“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”

“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”

“As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.”

“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates”

“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”

“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”

“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”

“Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.”

“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.”

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.”
Se davvero ti imbatti in una grande storia che realmente interessa alla gente - ovvero di quelle che trattengono l'attenzione per un tempo considerevole... le storie sugli uomini riguardano praticamente sempre una cosa, non è vero? La morte. L'inevitabilità della morte.

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Non credete a nulla di quanto sentito dire e non credete che alla metà di ciò che vedete.

“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”

“Only the educated are free.”