“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
Táto tapeta je hrozná, jeden z nás bude musieť ísť.
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“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
Zrkadlá by mali premýšľať dlhšie predtým, než niečo začnú odrážať.
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Maliar by mal každú maľbu začať maľovaním plátna na čierno, pretože všetky veci sú vo svojej podstate temné, okrem miest, kde sú vystavené svetlu.
“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”
Existujú dva spôsoby videnia: telom a dušou. Telo niekedy zabúda, no duša si pamätá všetko navždy.
Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Čestní ľudia neskrývajú svoje skutky.
Zdroj: Wuthering Heights
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
Po toľkých rokoch vidím, že som sa na začiatku mýlil, čo sa týka Evy; je lepšie žiť mimo záhrady s ňou ako v záhrade bez nej.
Zdroj: Diaries of Adam & Eve
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”
Snažte sa o výnimočnosť, nie o dokonalosť, pretože nežijeme v dokonalom svete.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Nezlyháte, až kým sa neprestanete snažiť.
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
Aj tá najmenšia mačka je majstrovské dielo.
“If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”
Keby som mal inú tvár, myslíte si, že by som nosil túto?
Attributed in Jean Dresden Grambs (1959), Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth
Misattributed
Varianta: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
Zmyslom života je, že sa zastaví.
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Meno najväčšieho vynálezcu všetkých čias. Nehoda.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Sami sa zmôžeme na tak málo, ale spolu dokážeme veľa.
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Človek nedosiahne osvietenie imagináciou svetla, ale tým, že si uvedomí temnotu.
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
Vždy keď môžeš, smej sa - je to lacný liek.
“We are all fools in love”
My všetci sme blázni, ktorí milujú.
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
Keď nám osud podá citrón, skúsme z neho urobiť limonádu.
“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.”
Rozdiel medzi takmer správnym slovom a správnym slovom je skutočne veľká - je to ako rozdiel medzi svetluškou a svetlom.
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
Zdroj: 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.”
V dobrej knižnici cítite, že nejakým záhadným spôsobom nasakujete do seba múdrosť obsiahnutú vo všetkých knižkách bez toho, aby ste ich otvárali.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Ty nevieš, že muž, o ktorom sa stále hovorí, nie je mŕtvy?
Zdroj: Going Postal
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Obtiažnosť je to, čo prebúdza génia.
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
Viete, schizoidné správanie je u detí celkom bežné. Je to akceptované, pretože my dospelí máme nevyslovenú dohodu, že deti sú blázni.
The Shining (1977)
“Meow means "woof" in cat.”
Mňau znamená v mačacom jazyku "haf".
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Blázni sa ponáhľajú tam, kam sa anjeli boja vstúpiť.
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)
Zdroj: An Essay on Criticism
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Ach, aké je dobré byť medzi ľuďmi, ktorí čítajú.
Zdroj: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
Morská panna však nemá žiadne slzy, a preto trpí omnoho viac.
Zdroj: The Little Mermaid
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
Trpezlivosť nie je schopnosť čakať, ale schopnosť udržať si dobrý prístup počas čakania.
Zdroj: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Manažment znamená robiť veci správne; vodcovstvo znamená robiť správne veci.
Misattributed
Varianta: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Zdroj: 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.”
Vždy posúvam dobré rady ďalej. Je to jediná vec, ktorú s nimi môžem robiť. Pre mňa nie sú nikdy užitočné.
Lord Goring, Act I
Varianta: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Zdroj: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Takmer všetci muži vydržia nepriazeň osudu, ale ak chcete vyskúšať povahu muža, dajte mu moc.
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.”
Študuj minulosť, keby si chcel predpovedať budúcnosť.
“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.”
Z dlhodobého hľadiska formujeme svoje životy a formujeme seba. Tento proces neskončí, kým nezomrieme. A rozhodnutia, ktoré robíme, sú v konečnom dôsledku našej vlastnou zodpovednosťou.
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Kontext: 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.”
Buďte trpezliví a nepoddajní; niekedy túto bolesť využijete.
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Každý, kto žije v rámci svojich možností, trpí nedostatkom fantázie.
Varianta: 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.”
Najlepším učiteľom je skúsenosť a nie niečí skreslený pohľad.
Misattributed
Zdroj: 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.”
Nie je nič vznešeného na tom, že ste nadradení vášmu blížnemu; Skutočná šľachta je byť nadradený vášmu bývalému ja.
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
Ľudia, ktorí vidia v život ako niečo viac než číru zábavu, nechápu jeho zmysel.
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Zdroj: 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.”
Nenarodil som sa, aby som bol nútený. Budem dýchať po svojom. Uvidíme, kto je najsilnejší.
Zdroj: 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.”
Usmejem sa a môj úsmev sa ponorí do tvojich žiakov a nebo vie, čo sa stane.
Zdroj: No Exit
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Ako spisovateľ by ste nemali súdiť, mali by ste porozumieť.
“Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life… life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.”
Tých, ktorých milujeme, môžeme začať nenávidieť. A život... život môže byť v jednej chvíli dokonalý a v druhej v troskách.
Zdroj: Through the Zombie Glass
“If you win, you need not have to explain… If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
Ak vyhráte, nemusíte nič vysvetľovať ... Ak prehráte, nemali by ste tam byť, aby ste to vysvetlili!
“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
Na tomto svete je osamelosť tak veľká, že ju dokážete zachytiť v pomalom pohybe hodinových ručičiek.
Varianta: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Citát je použiteľná náhrada za vtip.
“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.”
A poviem vám, že títo traja žili šťastne až kým neumreli? Nepoviem, pretože tomu tak nikdy nie je. Ale boli šťastní a žili.
Zdroj: The Dark Tower
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Šaty robia človeka. Nahí ľudia majú malý, alebo žiaden vplyv na spoločnosť.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Varianta: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
“The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.”
Minulosť nemá žiadnu moc na to, aby vám zabránil žiť teraz v prítomnosti. To dokáže len vaša ľútosť nad minulosťou.
Zdroj: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
V tomto bezbožnom svete nie je nič trvalé, ani naše problémy.
“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
Povedal, že ak je kultúra domom, potom je jazyk kľúčom od vchodových dverí a od všetkých miestností vo vnútri. Tvrdil, že bez neho skončíte na úteku, bez poriadneho domova a legitímnej identity.
Zdroj: And the Mountains Echoed
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Pravda je zriedka vždy čistá a prostá
Zdroj: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: 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.”
Keby voľby skutočne mohli niečo zmeniť, nedovolili by nám ich.
Varianta: 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.”
Dobro skončilo šťastne a zle nešťastne. To je to, čo beletria znamená.
Miss Prism, Act II
Zdroj: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Rozhodol som sa zostať pri láske … Nenávisť je príliš veľké bremeno.
Zdroj: 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.”
Všetko závisí od toho, ako sa na veci pozeráme, a nie od toho, aké sú samy osebe.
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
Je škoda, že musíme žiť, ale tragédiou je, že môžeme žiť len jeden život.
Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
To, že človek za niečo zomrie, neznamená, že je to nevyhnutne pravdivé.
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.”
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
Buďte veľkí v činoch, rovnako ako v myšlienkach.
Zdroj: King John
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Viete, obchod môže priniesť peniaze, ale priateľstvo takmer nikdy.
Zdroj: Emma (1815)
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Človek nemôže nič ovládať viac ani menej, ako seba seba samého.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Varianta: 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.”
Jediný spôsob, ako spoznať človeka, je beznádejne ho milovať.
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
Žiadna láska, žiadne priateľstvo nemôže skrížiť cestu nášho osudu bez toho, aby na nej zanechali nejakú stopu.
“By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
Tým, že vášnivo veríme v niečo, čo ešte neexistuje, to vytvárame. Neexistujúce je to, po čom sme dostatočne netúžili.
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.”
Čokoľvek súčasný okamih so sebou prinesie, prijmi to, akoby si to bol sám vybral.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Bez hudby by bol život chybou.
Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Zdroj: Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.”
Po celý život si buďte istí, postavte nohy na správne miesto a potom stojte pevne.
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
Varianta: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
Sloboda nie je niečo, čo môže byť dané každému. Sloboda je niečo, čo si ľudia berú, a ľudia sú tak slobodní, ako chcú byť.
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
Nikdy som sa necítil vyrovnaný alebo pokojný. Keď sa tak cítite, nemôžete sa skutočne venovať životu.
“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.”
Chcem odísť, ísť niekam, kde by som bol naozaj na svojom mieste, kde by som zapadol... ale moje miesto nie je nikde, som nechcený.
Zdroj: Nausea
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Môj spôsob žartovania je hovoriť pravdu. Je to ten najzábavnejší vtip na svete.
Act II
Zdroj: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."”
Mala som ružu pomenovanú po sebe a veľmi mi to lichotilo. Ale keď som si prečítala môj opis v katalógu, nepotešilo ma to: "V posteli nie je dobrá, ale postavená vedľa steny je dobrá."
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
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
Ste pánom svojho osudu. Môžete ovplyvňovať, riadiť a ovládať svoje vlastné prostredie. Môžete urobiť svoj život takým, aký ho chcete mať.
Zdroj: 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.”
Nikdy sa nebojte využiť svoj hlas pre čestnosť a pravdu a súcit proti nespravodlivosti a klamstvu a chamtivosti. Keby to urobili ľudia po celom svete, zmenilo by to našu planétu.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Samotnou podstatou romantiky je neistota.
Varianta: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Zdroj: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
Fantázia je rotoped pre myseľ. Možno vás nikam nevedie, ale tónuje svaly, ktoré vás niekam zaviesť dokážu. Ale samozrejme, môžem sa mýliť.
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Najväčšou slabosťou zo všetkých slabostí je strach z toho, že sa budete javiť ako slabí.
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
“The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Príbehy, ktoré máme najradšej, v nás žijú navždy. Či už sa k nim vrátite na stránkach alebo na veľkom plátne, Rokfort vás vždy privíta späť.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
Všetko okrem šťastia bude stratené.
Attributed
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
Na premenu nášho sveta nepotrebujeme mágiu. Všetku silu, ktorú potrebujeme, už nosíme v sebe. Máme silu predstaviť si niečo lepšie.
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.”
Múdrosť múdrych a skúsenosť vekov možno zachovať citovaním.
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Varianta: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
Mladá nevesta je ako odtrhnutý kvet; ale previnilá manželka je ako pošliapaný kvet.
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.”
Múdrosť spočíva v predvídaní následkov.
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.”
Sme to, čo si myslíme.
Všetko, čo sme, vzniká z našich myšlienok.
Svojimi myšlienkami tvoríme svet.
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.”
Pravdou je, že vždy viete, čo je správne urobiť. Ťažšie je to však uskutočniť.
Also attributed to Robert H. Schuller
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Žiadna snehová vločka sa v lavíne necíti zodpovedná.
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.”
Neprestávame hrať, pretože starneme, starneme, pretože prestávame hrať.
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.”
Do literárneho života som vstúpil ako meteor a opustím ho ako blesk.
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.”
Je naozaj veľmi nebezpečné veriť ľuďom. Nikdy som to nerobil.
Sleeping Murder (1976)
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Nadradený človek je skromný v reči, ale prevyšuje v činoch.
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.”
Nechajte si čas na rozmyslenie, ale keď príde čas konať, prestaňte rozmýšľať a choďte do toho.
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
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god.”
Ak človek robí všetko, čo dokáže, znamená to, že je človekom; ak by robil všetko, čo by chcel, znamenalo by to, že je bohom.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”
Smejte sa smrti a zomrite od smiechu.
Attributed
“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
Najdôležitejšia je pre mňa túžba pokračovať. Až keď cestujete, vidíte, aké sú veci krásne.
'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.”
Náboženské vojny sú v podstate vzájomné zabíjanie ľudí kvôli tomu, kto má lepšieho imaginárneho priateľa.
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.”
Hodiny hlúposti merajú hodinky, ale múdrosť žiadne hodiny nezmerajú.
Zdroj: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Šťastie je to, čo sa stane, ak sa príprava stretne s príležitosťou.
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.”
Ani všetci filozofi sveta spolu nemajú takú hodnotu ako jeden svätec.
Tears and Saints (1937)
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Lenže na to, aby ste boli šťastní, je potrebný čas. Veľa času. Aj šťastie je zdĺhavá záležitosť.
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.”
Prúd slov je neklamným znakom dvojtvárnosti.
Qui parle trop veut tromper.
Part I, ch. VI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)