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“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Художник должен начинать каждый холст с черных оттенков, потому что все вещи в природе темные, кроме тех, которые освещаются светом.
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Источник: Wuthering Heights
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Самый маленький котёнок - это шедевр.
“If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”
Если бы у меня было два лица, неужели я выбрал бы это?
Attributed in Jean Dresden Grambs (1959), Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth
Misattributed
Вариант: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Назовите величайшего из всех изобретателей. Несчастный случай.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
В одиночку мы так мало можем сделать. Вместе мы способны свернуть горы.
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
Всегда смейтесь, когда можете, это дешевое лекарство.
“We are all fools in love”
Все мы - дураки, когда влюблены.
Источник: Pride and Prejudice
“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
Когда судьба дарует нам лимон, нужно попробовать сделать лимонад.
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
Разница между почти правильным словом и правильным словом действительно велика, велика как разница между светлячков и молнией.
Letter to George Bainton, 15 October 1888, solicited for and printed in George Bainton, The Art of Authorship: Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work, and Advice to Young Beginners (1890), pp. 87–88 http://books.google.com/books?id=XjBjzRN71_IC&pg=PA87.
Twain repeated the lightning bug/lightning comparison in several contexts, and credited Josh Billings for the idea:
Josh Billings defined the difference between humor and wit as that between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Speech at the 145th annual dinner of St. Andrew's Society, New York, 30 November 1901, Mark Twain Speaking (1976), ed. Paul Fatout, p. 424
Billings' original wording was characteristically affected:
Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.
Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871" http://books.google.com/books?id=sUI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT30. Also in Everybody's Friend, or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (1874), p. 304 http://books.google.com/books?id=7rA8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304
Источник: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
В хорошей книжной комнате вы каким-то таинственным образом чувствуете, что впитываете мудрость, содержащуюся во всех книгах, через кожу, даже не открывая их.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Источник: Going Postal
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Meow means "woof" in cat.”
Мяу означает «гав» у кошки.
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Глупцы спешат попасть туда, куда ангелы бояться ступить.
At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation, I meet that argument — I rush in — I take that bull by the horns. I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us. Here, or at Washington, I would not trouble myself with the oyster laws of Virginia, or the cranberry laws of Indiana. The doctrine of self-government is right, — absolutely and eternally right, — but it has no just application as here attempted. Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man. If he is not a man, in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self-government do just what he pleases with him.
But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Источник: An Essay on Criticism
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Источник: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
Источник: The Little Mermaid
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
Источник: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Менеджмент – правильно вести дела; лидерство – делать правильные вещи.
Misattributed
Вариант: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Источник: The Essential Drucker
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Лучшее, что можно сделать с хорошим советом, это пропустить его мимо ушей. Он никогда не бывает полезен никому, кроме того, кто его дал.
Lord Goring, Act I
Вариант: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Источник: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Почти все люди могут выдержать испытания, но если вы хотите проверить характер человека, дайте ему власть.
Widely attributed to Lincoln, this appears to be derived from Thomas Carlyle's general comment below, but there are similar quotes about Lincoln in his biographies.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle (1841) On Heroes and Hero Worship.
Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity.
Horatio Alger (1883), Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy; or, How a Young Rail-Splitter became President
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never used it except on the side of mercy.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1883), Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, Volume 11, Number 3, The Exchange Table, True Greatness Exemplified in Abraham Lincoln, by Robert G. Ingersoll (excerpt), Quote Page 55, Column 1 and 2, Chicago, Illinois. ( Google Books Full View https://books.google.com/books?id=JUIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22man+really%22#v=snippet&)
If you want to discover just what there is in a man — give him power.
Francis Trevelyan Miller (1910), Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American
Any man can handle adversity. If you truly want to test a man's character, give him power.
Attributed in the electronic game Infamous
Misattributed
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Контексте: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Каждый, кто живет по средствам, страдает от недостатка воображения.
Вариант: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”
Лучший учитель - это опыт, а не чья-то искаженная точка зрения.
Misattributed
Источник: Often attributed to Kerouac's On the Road, the quote cannot be found in that book, nor in any of Kerouac's other published works.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Нет ничего благородного в том, чтобы быть выше своего ближнего; Истинное благородство превосходит ваше прежнее «я».
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
Люди, которые видят в жизни что-то большее, чем просто развлечение, не уловили сути.
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Источник: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Я не был рожден для того, чтобы быть принуждённым. И дышать я буду лишь по-своему желанию. Давай посмотрим, кто из нас сильнейший.
Источник: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
Я собираюсь улыбнуться, и моя улыбка опустится на ваших учеников, и небеса знают, чем это станет.
Источник: No Exit
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Как писатель, вы не должны судить, вы должны понимать.
“If you win, you need not have to explain… If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
Если вы выиграли, вам не нужно объяснять … Если вы проигрываете, вы не должны быть там, чтобы объяснять!
“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
Одиночество в этом мире настолько велико, что его можно увидеть в медленном движении стрелок часов.
Вариант: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Источник: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Цитата является заменой остроумия.
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
И скажу ли я вам, что эти трое жили долго и счастливо? Я не буду, потому что ни у кого никогда так не бывает. Но было счастье. И они жили.
Источник: The Dark Tower
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Человека красит одежда. Голые люди имеют крайне малое влияние в обществе, а то и совсем никакого.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Вариант: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
Ничто не вечно в нашем грешном мире, даже наши неприятности.
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Правда редко бывает чистой и никогда не бывает простой.
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Контексте: Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.
Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
Act I
Often quoted as "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
Вариант: If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Miss Prism, Act II
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Я решил пройти по жизни с любовью. Ненависть — слишком тяжелое бремя.
Источник: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Что-то не обязательно является истиной, если за это кто-то умирает.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/portrait/wh01.html (1889)
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Бизнес, знаете ли, может и приносит деньги, но дружбу - почти никогда.
Источник: Emma (1815)
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Человек не может обладать меньшим или большим мастерством, чем мастерство себя.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Вариант: You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
Attributed to Kafka in Ambiguous Spaces (2008) by NaJa & deOstos (Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos), p. 7, and a couple other publications since, this is actually from Report to Greco (1965) by Nikos Kazantzakis, p. 434
Misattributed
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
Что бы ни происходило в настоящий момент, примите так, как будто вы сами выбрали все это.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Без музыки жизнь была бы заблуждением.
Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Источник: Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.”
На протяжении всей своей жизни будь уверен и ставь ноги в нужное место, а затем стой твердо.
As recalled by Rebecca R. Pomroy in Echoes from hospital and White House (1884), by Anna L. Boyden, p. 61 http://books.google.com/books?id=7LZiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=feet
Posthumous attributions
Вариант: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
Я никогда не чувствовала себя уверенной или спокойной. Вы не можете по-настоящему посвятить себя жизни, когда чувствуете это.
“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
Я хочу уйти, пойти куда-нибудь, где я должен быть на самом деле на своем месте, где я бы вписался ... но моего места нигде нет; я нежелателен.
Источник: Nausea
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Мой способ шутить — это говорить правду. На свете нет ничего смешнее.
Act II
Источник: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
From a speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California, quoted in The Event Makers I’ve Known (2012) by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161. She is described as being in her late 70s, so c. 1960–1962
Источник: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world… would do this, it would change the earth.”
Никогда не бойтесь поднять свой голос за честность, правду и сострадание против несправедливости, лжи и жадности. Если бы люди во всем мире сделали бы это, это изменило бы землю.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Вся суть романтических отношений — в неопределённости.
Вариант: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
Attributed
Paraphrased variant: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Harvard address (2008)
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Вариант: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Une jeune fille est comme une fleur qu'on a cueillie; mais la femme coupable est une fleur sur laquelle on a marché.
Honorine http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Honorine (1845), translated by Clara Bell
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
15 April 1978.
Saturday Review
“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”
As rendered by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications.
There is no quote from the Pali Canon that matches up with any of these. The closest quote to this is in the Majjhima Nikaya 19:
"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with ill will, abandoning thinking imbued with non-ill will, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with ill will. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with harmfulness, abandoning thinking imbued with harmlessness, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with harmfulness." Sources: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.019.than.html
Misattributed
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
Also attributed to Robert H. Schuller
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane nowe] (1964)
Misattributed
“We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”
This is an anonymous modern quip which is a variant of a statement by G. Stanley Hall, in Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (1904):
: Men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely.
Misattributed
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”
Sleeping Murder (1976)
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Bk. 14, Ch. 29 (p. 208)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Quoted as "a maxim of Gen. Jackson's" in Supplement to the Courant Vol. XXII No. 25, Hartford, Saturday, December 12, 1857, p. 200 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=0uIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200&dq=deliberate
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”
Attributed
“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
Самая важная для меня штука - чувство движения. Знаете, вещи становятся такими красивыми когда путешествуешь.
'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', as cited by William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1967
posthumous
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”
There is no known basis to attribute this saying to Napoleon. It is found (unattributed) in a Usenet post from July 1999 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=soc.penpals/QIUrpkacWyE/FbCj7pij5WwJ.
Misattributed
“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
Время глупости измеряется часами, мудрость же никакими часами не измерить.
Источник: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Has been attributed to Seneca since the 1990s (eg. Gregory K. Ericksen, (1999), Women entrepreneurs only: 12 women entrepreneurs tell the stories of their success, page ix.). Other books ascribe the saying to either Darrell K. Royal (former American football player, born 1924) or Elmer G. Letterman (Insurance salesman and writer, 1897-1982). However, it is unlikely either man originated the saying. A version that reads "He is lucky who realizes that luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity" can be found (unattributed) in the 1912 The Youth's Companion: Volume 86. The quote might be a distortion of the following passage by Seneca (who makes no mention of "luck" and is in fact quoting his friend Demetrius the Cynic):<blockquote>"The best wrestler," he would say, "is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them." — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. 1 http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Benefits4.html</blockquote>
Disputed
“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.
A Happy Death (1971)
“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”
Qui parle trop veut tromper.
Part I, ch. VI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
