„Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Ukolébavka
Zdroj: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
„Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.“
East and West Poems, Part I, The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.
Francis Bret Harte2
americký autor a básník 1836 - 1902Podobné citáty
„Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.“
— Laurell K. Hamilton, kniha Narcissus in Chains
Zdroj: Narcissus in Chains
„Too little mindful of your folk.“
Nimiumque oblite tuorum.
— Statius, kniha Thebaid
Zdroj: Thebaid, Book VII, Line 547
„Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.“
— Philip G. Zimbardo, kniha The Lucifer Effect
Zdroj: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
„Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Ukolébavka
Varianta: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Zdroj: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
„It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.“
— Raymond Chandler, kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Kontext: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
„This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.“
— John D. Carmack American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman 1970
On spending $2 million on building rockets, Quoted in "Carmack's Jet Vanes" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/04e3682944fbcc74?hl=en (2004-05-13)
„Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.“
— Richard I of England English king 1157 - 1199
Richard on being corrected by the Bishop of Coventry; The Plantagenets - Harvey
— James Brown American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist 1933 - 2006
Licking Stick – Licking Stick, written with Bobby Byrd and Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1968)
Song lyrics
„Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.“
— René Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist 1596 - 1650
— Roger Zelazny American speculative fiction writer 1937 - 1995
As quoted in "Forever Amber" (October 1991) http://web.archive.org/web/20080212112534/http://zelazny.corrupt.net/amberever.html
„My Lord… it would be well if you would stick to your good law and leave off your bad Latin.“
— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon British Baron 1732 - 1802
George III of the United Kingdom; reported in John Campbell, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest till the death of Lord Tenterden (2006), p. 58.
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„To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.“
— E. W. Howe Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853 - 1937
Country Town Sayings (1911), p32.
„Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.“
— Robert Fulghum, kniha Všechno, co opravdu potřebuju znát, jsem se naučil v mateřské školce
Zdroj: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Kontext: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
„Don't rush. Let them judge. Stay committed to your mission.“
— Settlemania Settlemania Is in Indian Video Content Creator and Social Media Expert 1999
„Don't let your habits become handcuffs“
— Elizabeth Berg American novelist 1948
Zdroj: The Year of Pleasures