Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

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“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Benedetto l'uomo che non si aspetta nulla, perché non resterà mai deluso.

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
I vestiti dovrebbero essere abbastanza stretti per mostrare che sei una donna, ma abbastanza larghi per mostrare che sei una signora.

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”

“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
I sogni sono le pietre di paragone del nostro carattere.

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”
Prima del matrimonio, una ragazza deve fare l’amore con un uomo per trattenerlo. Dopo il matrimonio, deve trattenerlo per fare l’amore con lui.

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Per ogni minuto che rimani arrabbiato, perdi sessanta secondi di felicità.

“It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.”

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
Il richiamo del lontano e del difficile è ingannevole. Le grandi opportunità sono dove sei tu.

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Per essere grandi bisogna essere fraintesi.

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
La vita non imita l'arte, imita la cattiva televisione.

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“Never, never, never give in!”

“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?”

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“My friends are my "estate."”

“Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”
Mary: Il sesso senza amore è un'esperienza vuota! -Isaac: Beh, ma tra le esperienze vuote è una delle migliori.

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
Conosci la terra dei limoni in fiore, dove le arance d'oro splendono tra le foglie scure, dal cielo azzurro spira un mite vento, quieto sta il mirto e l'alloro è eccelso, la conosci forse? Laggiù, laggiù io andare vorrei con te, o amato mio!

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
„Non ho alcun desiderio particolare di suonare assoli di dieci minuti. Quelli non sono mai stati validi comunque nel mio libro - mai. Era solo un modo economico per creare tensione nel pubblico... Un assolo dovrebbe fare qualcosa; non dovrebbe essere lì solo come cosmetico. Dovrebbe avere uno scopo, portare la melodia da qualche parte. Non sto dicendo che posso farcela, ma cerco di portare la melodia da qualche parte.“

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
Quale di tutti i miei niente importanti devo dirti per primo?

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
La fiducia è ciò che ti trovi prima di capire il problema.

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”

“In times of war, the law falls silent.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
La maggior parte delle ombre di questa vita sono causate dal nostro stare al sole.

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
Raramente, molto raramente, la completa verità appartiene a qualsiasi rivelazione umana; raramente può accadere che qualcosa non sia un po' celata o un po' sbagliata.

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”

“Joy came always after pain.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”