Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

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“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
C'è più bellezza nella verità, anche se è una terribile bellezza.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.”

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Le conseguenze della collera sono molto più gravi delle sue cause.

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
Non so chi abbia inventato i tacchi alti… Ma tutte le donne gli devono molto.

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

“You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
Dai a una ragazza un'educazione e introducila correttamente nel mondo, e dieci a uno avrà i mezzi per sistemarsi bene, senza ulteriori spese per nessuno.

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.”

“Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”
La maggior parte delle persone non si rende conto che nella vita non è quanti soldi guadagni, ma quanti soldi tieni.

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Gli aquiloni volano più in alto controvento, non nella stessa direzione di esso.

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se; e quelli pochi non ardiseano opporsi alla opinione di molti che abbino la maestà dello stato ch li difenda:…

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
Siate grati della vita perché vi dà la possibilità di amare, lavorare, giocare e guardare le stelle.

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
Non sa niente, e crede di saper tutto. Questo fa chiaramente prevedere una carriera politica.

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
Non voglio solo parole. Se questo è tutto ciò che hai per me, sarebbe meglio che tu andassi.

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Si dice sempre che il tempo cambia le cose, ma in effetti devi essere tu stesso a cambiarle.

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
La TV e internet sono un bene perché impediscono agli stupidi di passare troppo tempo fuori in mezzo al pubblico.

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
A volte la tua gioia è la fonte del tuo sorriso, ma a volte il tuo sorriso può essere la fonte della tua gioia.

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
Potrei aver perso il mio cuore, ma non il mio autocontrollo.

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
La nostra memoria è un mondo più perfetto dell'universo: restituisce la vita a coloro che non esistono più.

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
Un dolore mi trafisse il cuore, come succedeva ogni volta che vedevo una ragazza che mi piaceva andarsene in direzione opposta alla mia in questo mondo troppo grande.

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
Le nostre valigie logore stavano di nuovo ammucchiate sul marciapiede; avevano altro e più lungo cammino da percorrere. Ma non importa, la strada è vita.

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“Living is a horizontal fall.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Non c'è tirannia peggiore che costringere un uomo a pagare per ciò che non vuole solo perché pensi sarebbe un bene per lui.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…”

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
Non si può ripetere il passato.

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
È il grande inganno: la saggezza dei vecchi. Non diventano saggi. Diventano attenti.

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Migliorare significa cambiare, essere perfetti significa cambiare spesso.

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
Mi sento come un selvaggio seme bagnato nella cieca e arida terra.

“I think, therefore I am.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself”

“Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.”

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”