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Albert Einstein photo
René Descartes photo
Marilyn Monroe photo

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

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

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.

William Faulkner photo

“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.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
T.S. Eliot photo

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Il genere umano | Non può sopportare troppa realtà.

T.S. Eliot libro Quattro quartetti

Origine: Four Quartets

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

Erich Fromm photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Pearl S.  Buck photo

“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.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Albert Einstein photo

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

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

Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Leo Tolstoy photo
Jane Austen photo

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

Leo Tolstoy photo

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”

Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Origine: Anna Karenina

Marilyn Monroe photo
Francis Bacon photo

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
La speranza è buona come prima colazione, ma è una pessima cena.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variante: Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox photo

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Dr. Seuss photo

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Dr. Seuss libro Happy Birthday to You!

Variante: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Origine: Happy Birthday to You!

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Anaïs Nin photo
Confucius photo
Albert Einstein photo

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

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

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

Marilyn Monroe photo

“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”

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

Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Richard Bach photo

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Origine: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Thomas Jefferson photo

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

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

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.

Robert Southey photo
Albert Einstein photo
George Bernard Shaw photo

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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

Marilyn Monroe photo

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Vivo per avere successo, non per piacere a te o a chiunque altro.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson libro The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Vincent Van Gogh photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

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

Variante: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Guy De Maupassant frase: “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant photo

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
C'è una sola cosa buona nella vita, ed è l'amore.

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"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.

André Breton photo

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Origine: The Magnetic Fields

John Dewey photo

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

John Dewey libro Democracy and Education

Origine: Democracy and Education

Robert A. Heinlein photo
Pearl S.  Buck photo

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"To the Young"
Origine: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Charles Darwin photo

“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.

Charles Darwin libro L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale

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)

John Steinbeck photo

“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.

John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent

Marcus Aurelius photo
Woody Allen photo

“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.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Winston S. Churchill photo

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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

John Milton photo

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

John Milton libro Paradiso perduto

Origine: Paradise Lost

André Gide photo
Jean Paul Sartre photo
Marilyn Monroe photo
Helen Keller photo

“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.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

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

“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.

Ernest Hemingway libro Il vecchio e il mare

Variante: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Origine: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Elie Wiesel photo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo
Marcus Tullius Cicero photo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Woody Allen photo

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
L'ottanta percento del successo si sta manifestando.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Charles Bukowski photo
Thomas Jefferson photo

“I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

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

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

Robert F. Kennedy photo

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

"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.

Sigmund Freud photo
P.G. Wodehouse photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Gli uomini bassi credono nella fortuna. Uomini superficiali credono nella fortuna

Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Ray Bradbury photo

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

Ray Bradbury libro Zen in the Art of Writing

Origine: Zen in the Art of Writing

Winston S. Churchill photo

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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)

Henry David Thoreau photo

“Things do not change; we change.”

Henry David Thoreau libro Walden ovvero Vita nei boschi

Origine: Walden

Albert Einstein photo
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Amelia Earhart photo
Herta Müller photo

“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”

Herta Müller libro The Hunger Angel

Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68

George S. Patton photo

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"

Sophia Loren photo

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

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.

George S. Patton photo

“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79

Henry Ward Beecher photo

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

Khalil Gibran photo

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Sand and Foam (1926)

Babe Ruth photo

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson libro Nature

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.

George Marshall photo

“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”

George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff

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

William Ellery Channing (poet) photo
Willa Cather photo

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”

Willa Cather libro Death Comes for the Archbishop

Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Ralph Waldo Emerson frase: “The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

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

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&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir photo

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati photo

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

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.”

Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet

Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Khalil Gibran photo

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44

Tenzin Gyatso photo

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.

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