“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
Ta tapeta je příšerná, jeden z nás bude muset odejít.
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“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.”
Malíř by měl pokaždé začít nabarvením plátna na černo, protože všechny věci v přírodě jsou tmavé, kromě případů, kdy jsou vystaveny světlu.
“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.”
Existují dva způsoby vidění: tělem a duší. Zrak těla může někdy zapomenout, ale duše si pamatuje navždy.
Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Čestní lidé své činy neskrývají.
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 všech těch letech vidím, že jsem se na začátku v Evě mýlil; je lepší žít mimo zahradu s ní než v zahradě bez ní.
Zdroj: Diaries of Adam & Eve
“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”
Snažte se o výjimečnost, ne o dokonalost, protože nežijeme v dokonalém světě.
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Neselžete, dokud se nepřestanete snažit.
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
I ta nejmenší kočka je mistrovské dílo.
“If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”
Kdybych měl jinou tvář, myslíte si, že bych nosil tuto?
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.”
Smyslem života je, že se zastaví.
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Jméno největšího ze všech vynálezců - Náhoda.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Sami můžeme udělat tak málo; společně dokážeme tolik.
"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.”
Smějte se vždy, když můžete, neb je to levný lék.
“We are all fools in love”
Všichni jsme v lásce blázny.
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
Když nám osud podá citron, zkusme z něj udělat 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.”
Rozdíl mezi téměř správným slovem a správným slovem je opravdu velká - je to jako rozdíl mezi světlušky a bleskem.
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 dobrém knihkupectví nějakým tajemným způsobem cítíte, že absorbujete moudrost obsaženou ve všech knihách skrz svou kůži, aniž byste je vůbec otevírali.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Ty nevíš, že muž, o němž se stále mluví, není mrtvý?
Zdroj: Going Postal
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Obtížnost je to, co probouzí 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.”
Víte, schizoidní chování je u dětí docela běžné. Je to přijatelné, protože my dospělí máme takovou nevyslovenou dohodu, že děti jsou blázni.
The Shining (1977)
“Meow means "woof" in cat.”
Mňau znamená "haf" u kočky.
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Blázni spěchají tam, kde se andělé bojí šlapat.
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, jak je dobré být mezi lidmi, kteří čtou.
Zdroj: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
Ale mořská panna nemá žádné slzy, a proto trpí mnohem víc.
Zdroj: The Little Mermaid
“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
Trpělivost není schopnost čekat, ale schopnost udržet si při čekání dobrý přístup.
Zdroj: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Management je dělat věci správně. Leadership je dělat správné věci.
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 předávám dobré rady. Je to jediná věc, která se s nimi dá dělat. Samy o sobě nikdy nejsou k ničemu.
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.”
Téměř všichni muži mohou vydržet nepřízeň, ale pokud chcete vyzkoušet charakter člověka, dejte mu sílu.
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.”
Studuj minulost, kdybys chtěl definovat budoucnost.
“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 dlouhodobého hlediska utváříme naše životy a utváříme se sami. Proces neskončí, dokud nezemřeme. A rozhodnutí, která děláme, jsou v konečném důsledku naší vlastní odpovědností.
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 trpěliví a tvrdí. Jednoho dne vám tato bolest bude užitečná.
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Každý, kdo žije v jejich prostředcích, trpí nedostatkem představivosti.
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.”
Nejlepším učitelem je zkušenost a ne něčí zkreslený pohled.
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.”
Není nic vznešeného na tom, že jste nadřazení vašemu bližnímu; Skutečná vznešenost je být nadřazený vašemu bývalému já.
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
Lidé, kteří považují život za něco víc než čistou zábavu, nechápou jeho pointu.
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 jsem se, abych byl nucen. Budu dýchat po svém. Uvidíme, kdo je nejsilnější.
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.”
Usměju se a můj úsměv se ponoří do tvých žáků a nebe ví, co se stane.
Zdroj: No Exit
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Jako spisovatel byste neměli soudit, měli byste porozumět.
“Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life… life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.”
Ty, které milujeme, můžeme začít nenávidět. A život... život může být v jednu chvíli dokonalý a vzápětí 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!”
Pokud vyhrajete, nemusíte vysvětlovat... Pokud prohrajete, neměli byste tam být, abyste to vysvětlili!
“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 světě je osamělost tak velká, že ji dokážete zachytit v pomalém pohybu hodinových ručiček.
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 velmi užitečná náhražka vtipu.
“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 mám vám říct, že ti tři žili šťastně až do smrti? Neřeknu to, protože to tak nikdy není. Ale bylo to štěstí. A žili.
Zdroj: The Dark Tower
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Šaty dělají člověka. Nazí lidé mají malý nebo žádný vliv na společnost.
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.”
Minulost vám nemůže zabránit v tom, abyste byli přítomni nyní. To dokáže jen vaše lítost nad minulostí.
Zdroj: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
Nic v tomto světě není trvalé. Ani naše utrpení.
“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.”
Řekl, že je-li kultura domem, pak je jazyk klíčem ke vstupním dveřím a ke všem místnostem uvnitř. Říkal, že bez něj člověk skončí na útěku, bez pořádného domova a legitimní identity.
Zdroj: And the Mountains Echoed
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
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.”
Pokud by volby opravdu něco změnili, tak by nás nenechali volit.
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.”
Dobré skončilo šťastně a špatné nešťastně. To je to, co fikce 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.”
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.”
Vše závisí na tom, jak se na věci díváme, a ne na tom, jaké jsou samy o sobě.
“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 žít, ale je tragédie, že můžeme žít jen jeden život.
Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Věc nemusí být nutně pravdivá proto, že pro ni umírá člověk.
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.”
Láska je moudrost bláznů a bláznovství moudrých.
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
Buďte velcí v činech i v myšlenkách.
Zdroj: King John
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Obchod, víte, může přinést peníze, ale přátelství jejich stová někdy přinese.
Zdroj: Emma (1815)
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Člověk nemůže nic ovládat více ani méně, než sebe sama.
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 způsob, jak poznat člověka, je beznadějně ho milovat.
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
Žádná láska, žádné přátelství nemůže zkřížit cestu našeho osudu, aniž by na něm navždy zanechala nějakou stopu.
“By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
Tím, že vášnivě věříme v něco, co ještě neexistuje, to vytváříme. Neexistující je to, po čem dostatečně netoužíme.
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.”
Ať už přítomný okamžik obsahuje cokoliv, přijměte to, jako byste si to vybrali.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Bez hudby by byl 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 jistí, postavte nohy na správné místo a pak stůjte pevně.
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”
Svoboda není něco, co může být komukoliv darováno. Svoboda je něco, co si lidé vezmou, a lidé jsou natolik svobodní nakolik chtějí být.
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
Nikdy jsem se necítila klidná a vyrovnaná. Když se tak cítíte, nemůžete se do života pořádně zapojit.
“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.”
Chci odejít někam, kde budu opravdu na svém místě, kam zapadnu... ale moje místo není nikde, jsem nechtěný.
Zdroj: Nausea
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Můj způsob žertování je říkat pravdu. Je to ten nejzábavnější vtip na světě.
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."”
Pojmenovali po mně růži a mně to velmi lichotilo. Ale když jsem si přečetla popis v katalogu, nebyla jsem potěšena: "Do postele se nehodí, ale ke zdi 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.”
Jste pánem svého osudu. Můžete ovlivňovat, řídit a ovládat své vlastní okolí. Svůj život můžete udělat takovým, jakým ho chcete mít.
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 se nebojte zvýšit svůj hlas pro poctivost, pravdu a soucit proti nespravedlnosti, lhaní a chamtivosti. Pokud by to lidé po celém světě dělali, změnilo by to Zemi.
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Samotnou podstatou romantiky je nejistota.
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.”
Fantazie je rotoped pro mysl. Možná vás nikam nezavede, ale tónuje svaly, které vás někam zavést dokážou. Ale samozřejmě, mohu se mýlit.
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Největší slabostí ze všech slabostí je strach z toho, že se budete jevit jako 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.”
Příběhy, které máme nejraději, v nás žijí navždy. Ať už se k nim vrátíte po stránkách, nebo na velkém plátně, Bradavice vás vždy přivítají zpátky doma.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
Vše kromě štěstí bude ztraceno.
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.”
K proměně našeho světa nepotřebujeme magii. Veškerou sílu, kterou potřebujeme, už nosíme v sobě. Máme sílu představovat si lepší věci.
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.”
Moudrost moudrých a zkušenost věků lze uchovat citováním.
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 nevěsta je jako utržený květ; zatímco provinilá žena je jako květina, kterou někdo pošlapal.
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.”
Moudrost spočívá v předvídání následků.
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.”
Pravdou je, že vždy víte, co je správné udělat. Nejtěžší je to ale udělat.
Also attributed to Robert H. Schuller
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Žádná sněhová vločka v lavině se nikdy necítí zodpovědná.
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.”
Nepřestáváme si hrát, protože stárneme, ale stárneme, protože si přestáváme hrát.
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 literárního života jsem vstoupil jako meteor a opustím ho jako 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.”
Věřit lidem je opravdu velmi nebezpečné. Já im už léta nevěřím.
Sleeping Murder (1976)
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Nadřazený člověk je skromný ve svých řečech, ale vyniká ve svých činech.
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.”
Vezměte si čas na rozmyšlenou, ale až přijde čas činu, přestaňte přemýšlet a jděte 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.”
Dělat vše, co člověk umí, znamená být člověkem; dělat vše, co by člověk chtěl, by znamenalo být bohem.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”
Smát se smrti a umřít smíchem.
Attributed
“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
Nejdůležitější je pro mě chuť pokračovat. Při cestování poznáte, jak jsou věci krásné.
'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 války jsou v podstatě vzájemné zabíjení lidí kvůli tomu, kdo má lepšího imaginárního přítele.
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 pošetilosti jsou měřeny podle hodinek, ale moudrost žádné hodiny měřit nedokážou.
Zdroj: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Štěstí je to, co se stane, pokud se příprava setká s příležitostí.
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 všichni filozofové světa spolu nemají takovou hodnotu jako jeden světec.
Tears and Saints (1937)
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Ke štěstí potřebujete čas. Hodně času. I štěstí je zdlouhavá záležitost.
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.”
Ten, kdo příliš mluví, chce klamat.
Qui parle trop veut tromper.
Part I, ch. VI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)