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Jane Austen photo

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Ah! non c'è niente come stare a casa per un reale comfort.

Jane Austen libro Emma

Emma (1815)
Works, Emma

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Il silenzio non sempre indica saggezza.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Robert Southey photo
Marilyn Monroe photo

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
Il corpo è concepito per essere visto, non per essere coperto.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune (5 October 1984)
Variante: The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

George Carlin photo
Woody Allen photo

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Origine: Hannah and Her Sisters

Victor Hugo photo

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). English translation from Robb, Victor Hugo p. 249 (Norton, 1997).

Mortimer J. Adler photo

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Origine: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134

Albert Einstein photo

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Attributed by his friend Leo Mattersdorf, who also said that "From the time Professor Einstein came to this country until his death, I prepared his income tax returns and advised him on his tax problems." In a letter to Time magazine, 22 February 1963. See this post from The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/07/einstein-income-taxes/#more-2031 for more background.
Attributed in posthumous publications

Victor Hugo photo

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Variante: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Stephen King photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Milan Kundera photo

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Variante: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Origine: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Paulo Coelho photo
Umberto Eco photo

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Umberto Eco libro L'isola del giorno prima

The Island of the Day Before

Jane Austen photo

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Ci sono persone che, quanto più si fa per loro, meno fanno per se stesse.

Jane Austen libro Emma

Origine: Emma (1815)

Alexander Pope photo

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
Conoscere poco è una cosa pericolosa. Così come molto.

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Misattributed

Mary Kay Ash photo

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

Variante: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can not, you are right.

Don DeLillo photo
John Steinbeck photo

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI

Paulo Coelho photo

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variante: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Origine: Veronika Decides to Die

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. III, Ch. IV (1839).
Variante: Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Contesto: "Ah! this beautiful world!" said Flemming, with a smile. "Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and Heaven itself lies not far off. And then it changes suddenly; and is dark and sorrowful, and clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

Jon Kabat-Zinn photo

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Variante: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Origine: Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jonathan Swift photo

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)

Elbert Hubbard photo

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Non vi è alcun fallimento se non quello di smettere di provare.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Wayne W. Dyer photo
Helen Keller photo

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

Helen Keller libro The Story of My Life

Origine: Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896) http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=P3Ch4, quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life

William Blake frase: “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake photo

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s

Marilyn Monroe photo

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
Il sesso fa parte della natura, e io seguo la natura.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variante: Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

John Steinbeck photo

“I guess there are never enough books.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Origine: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

John F. Kennedy photo

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

"Proclamation 3560 — Thanksgiving Day, 1963" (5 November 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9511<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1963
Contesto: Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers —  for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Francis Bacon photo

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Alcuni libri devono essere assaggiati, altri inghiottiti, e pochi masticati e digeriti.

Francis Bacon libro Saggi

Essays (1625)
Contesto: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Of Studies

Woody Allen photo

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
Se vuoi far ridere Dio, parlagli dei tuoi piani.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Franz Kafka photo

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

Franz Kafka libro The Trial

Variante: It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
Origine: The Trial

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Muhammad Ali photo

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)

Marilyn Monroe photo

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variante: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Sigmund Freud photo

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

Sigmund Freud libro Il disagio della civiltà

Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.
Origine: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey, p.25

Charles Bukowski photo
Will Rogers photo

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Variante: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Henry David Thoreau photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Eudora Welty photo

“All serious daring starts from within.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Origine: On Writing (2002)

John F. Kennedy photo

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

by filling three basic gaps in our anti-recession protection.
1962, Second State of the Union Address

Michel De Montaigne photo

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
La cosa più bella del mondo è sapere come appartenere a se stessi.

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Origine: The Complete Essays

Albert Einstein photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

Henry David Thoreau photo
Alexander Pope photo

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Fai del bene di nascosto e arrossisci a vederlo divulgato.

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Origine: An Essay on Man

Marilyn Monroe photo
William Blake photo

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
Sette questa è così sottovalutata tieni la tua famiglia e gli affari completamente separai i soldi e il sangue non si mischiano come due cazzi e nessuna donna

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Origine: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

Napoleon Hill photo
George Bernard Shaw frase: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw photo

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330
1940s and later
Variante: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Contesto: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.

Marilyn Monroe photo

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Variante: I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“I'm a cynical idealist.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

Václav Havel photo

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
La salvezza di questo mondo umano non risiede in nessun altro luogo che nel cuore umano, nella capacità umano di riflettere, nella mansuetudine umana e nella responsabilità umana.

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)

Leo Buscaglia photo

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variante: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Origine: Living Loving and Learning
Contesto: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Marilyn Monroe photo

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in The Films of Barbra Streisand (2001) by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson
Variante: Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Charles Bukowski photo

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
La mia anima strafogata di birra è più triste di tutti gli alberi di Natale morti del mondo.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Thomas Jefferson photo

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Archibald Stuart http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/skjolly/jeffersonianfederalism.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA837#v=onepage&q=&f=false, Philadelphia (23 December 1791)
1790s
Variante: I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
Origine: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Oprah Winfrey photo
Jane Austen photo

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

Mary Kay Ash photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Mal giova illustre sangue ad animo che langue

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Progress of Culture (see also: Art)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Jack Kerouac photo

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.

William Saroyan photo

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
Quando ridi, ridi come un matto. E quando ti arrabbi, arrabbiati per bene. Cerca di essere vivo. Abbastanza presto sarai morto.

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Preface
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Contesto: The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Jean Paul Sartre photo
Madonna photo
John Steinbeck photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
Variante: I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variante: We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Marilyn Monroe photo

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
Quello che davvero desidera una donna è trovare un uomo che le dimostri che i maschi non sono tutti uguali.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Lauren Bacall photo

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model

Origine: Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005)

Napoleon Hill photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Origine: Tender is the Night

Jack Kerouac photo

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
L'odio paralizza la vita; l'amore la libera. L'odio confonde la vita; l'amore la armonizza. L'odio oscura la vita; l'amore la illumina.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Last paragraph of section III of Antidotes for fear, page 122 (see link at top of the section)
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Origine: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

John Steinbeck photo

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
A volte un uomo vuole essere stupido se si permette di fare una cosa che la sua intelligenza gli proibisce.

John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

Jack London photo
John F. Kennedy photo

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Variante: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Salvador Dalí photo

“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

In an interview conducted by Paloma Chamorro in Madrid (Spain), 1982; as cited in Salvador Dalí: a la conquista de lo irracional, Javier Pérez Andújar (2003) p. 245
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1981 - 1989
Variante: I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.

Bob Dylan photo
Helen Keller photo

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
L'ottimismo è la fede che porta alle realizzazioni. Nulla può essere fatto senza speranza o fiducia.

Helen Keller libro Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Variante: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

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