“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
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“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Contesto: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
Forse avevano ragione a mettere l’amore nei libri. Forse non potrebbe vivere altrove.
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Il genere umano | Non può sopportare troppa realtà.
Origine: Four Quartets
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
Origine: The Great Gatsby
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
L'amore non può essere forzato, l'amore non può essere persuaso e preso in giro. Viene fuori dal cielo, non richiesto e non desiderato.
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
Origine: Pride and Prejudice
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Origine: Anna Karenina
“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
La speranza è buona come prima colazione, ma è una pessima cena.
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variante: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Variante: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Origine: Happy Birthday to You!
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variante: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Origine: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Variante: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Variante: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed
“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Vivo per avere successo, non per piacere a te o a chiunque altro.
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variante: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
C'è una sola cosa buona nella vita, ed è l'amore.
"The Love of Long Ago"
Origine: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Contesto: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
Origine: The Magnetic Fields
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
Origine: Democracy and Education
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
"To the Young"
Origine: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Lo stadio più elevato nelle civiltà morali consiste nel riconoscere che dovremmo controllare i nostri pensieri.
volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
È molto più buio quando una luce si spegne di quanto sarebbe stato se non avesse mai brillato.
Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent
“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
First mentioned as "Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking and using our potential." according to Quote Investigator in the 1981 book The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery by Liane Cordes, Quote Page 89, Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minnesota. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (August 31, 2013): Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Archived http://archive.is/E0M12 on June 2, 2020.
Origine: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/21/effort/ from the original
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Nessun pessimista ha mai scoperto i segreti delle stelle, o navigato verso terre sconosciute, od aperto nuove porte allo spirito umano.
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
L'uomo non è fatto per la sconfitta. Un uomo può essere distrutto, ma non può essere sconfitto.
Variante: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Origine: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Il consiglio è come la neve: più soffice cade, più a lungo attecchisce, e più profondamente penetra nella mente.
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
L'ottanta percento del successo si sta manifestando.
“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" speech http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/filmmore/ps_ksu.html at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.
“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Gli uomini bassi credono nella fortuna.
Uomini superficiali credono nella fortuna
Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Origine: Zen in the Art of Writing
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Things do not change; we change.”
Origine: Walden
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Origine: Anna Karenina
The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html
“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68
War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variante: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Origine: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Origine: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Variante: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.