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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Es estupendo empezar la vida con un pequeño número de libros realmente buenos que son completamente tuyos.
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variante: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variante: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Fuente: Fahrenheit 451
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Las palabras son fáciles, como el viento; Los amigos fieles son difíciles de encontrar.
Fuente: The Passionate Pilgrim
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
La vida o es una aventura atrevida o no es nada.
Fuente: The Open Door (1957) This quotation is often contracted into: Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. or paraphrased: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Fuente: Notebook
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima
Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Variante: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Todos vamos a morir, todos, ¡que espectáculo! Eso solo, nos debería motivar a amarnos unos a otros, pero no sucede así. Somos aterrorizados y aplastados por trivialidades, somos engullidos por nada.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Lo que una vez disfrutamos, nunca lo perdemos. Todo lo que amamos profundamente se convierte en parte de nosotros mismos.
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Fuente: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
La moralidad es simplemente una actitud que adoptamos hacia las personas que personalmente no nos gustan.
Fuente: An Ideal Husband
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
La gente no tendrá tiempo para ti si siempre estás enojado o te quejas.
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Hay muchas cosas de las que nos desprenderíamos si no tuviéramos miedo de que otros las recogieran.
Variante: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”
Las personas amorales se sentían más libres, pero carecían de la capacidad de sentir o amar.
Fuente: Women (1978)
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Nunca permití que la escuela interfiriera en mi educación.
Variante: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”
La vida está dividida entre lo horrible y lo miserable.
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Fuente: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 8.
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
Lo mejor que puedes hacer por el mundo entero es ser lo mejor de ti mismo.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
El éxito no es definitivo, el fracaso no es fatídico. Lo que cuenta es el valor para continuar.
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variante: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Fuente: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
Variante: She burned too bright for this world.
Fuente: The quote is attributed to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, but only first part appears in book. https://books.google.pl/books?id=Aiye9MLNh9EC&q=wild%2C+wicked+slip#v=snippet&q=wild%2C%20wicked%20slip&f=false
A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Contexto: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
El sexo es lo más divertido que se puede hacer sin reír.
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Antes que el amor, el dinero, la fe, la fama y la justicia, dadme la verdad”.
Fuente: Walden
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Book I, 645a.16
Parts of Animals
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Los que saben, hacen. Los que comprenden, enseñan.
This and many similar quotes with the same general meaning are misattributed to Aristotle as a result of Twitter attribution decay. The original source of the quote remains anonymous. The oldest reference resides in the works of George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "Maxims for Revolutionists", where he claims that “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”. However, the related quote, "Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach" likely originates from Lee Shulman in his explanation of Aristotlean views on professional mastery: Source: Shulman, L. S. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4 - 14. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1175860
Misattributed
Variante: Those who can, do, those who cannot, teach.
“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Fuente: Moominsummer Madness
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Cuando el ave del corazón comienza a cantar, muy a menudo la razón tapará sus oídos.
Fuente: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Contexto: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Book 4, chapter 1. Often misquoted as "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end".
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
Fuente: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
No había a dónde ir sino a todas partes, así que sigue rodando bajo las estrellas.
Fuente: On the Road: the Original Scroll
Variante: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Fuente: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
Cuando otra persona te hace sufrir, es porque sufre profundamente dentro de sí mismo, y su sufrimiento se está extendiendo. Él no necesita castigo; él necesita ayuda. Ese es el mensaje que está enviando.
“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Was sagt dein Gewissen?
'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
Variant translation: Become who you are.
It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.
Sec. 270
The Gay Science (1882)
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Fuente: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Fuente: Fireflies
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Fuente: Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Yo no te he destrozado el corazón; tú sola te lo has destrozado, y al hacerlo has destrozado también el mío
Fuente: Wuthering Heights
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
La razón por la que la preocupación mata más que el trabajo, es porque es más gente la que se preocupa que la que trabaja.
“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
… Y luego, tengo naturaleza, arte y poesía, y si eso no es suficiente, ¿Qué es suficiente?
“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”
La peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi.
La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).
Quotes, 1940's
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
El amor es una promesa, el amor es un regalo. Una vez concedido nunca se olvida, nunca va a desaparecer.
frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Variante: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
Lo que eres es el regalo que Dios te ha hecho, en lo que te conviertes es tu regalo a Dios.
Fuente: Prayer
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
No hay un gran genio sin mezcla de locura.
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Fuente: Fables
Variante: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
No cuentes los días, haz que los días cuenten.
First attributed to Lincoln in 2002, this seems a paraphrase of a statement in the Lyceum address of 1838, while incorporating language used by Thomas E. Dewey (c. 1944), who said "By the same token labor unions can never be destroyed from the outside. They can only fail if they fail to lend their united support to full production in a free society".
Misattributed
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
El arte lava del alma el polvo de la vida cotidiana.
Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9.
1960s
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Fuente: The Alchemist
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Fuente: The Sun Also Rises
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Variante: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Fuente: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
Si tiemblas con indignación ante cada injusticia, entonces eres camarada mío.
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variante: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Variante: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Fuente: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Fuente: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
En última instancia lo que amamos es nuestro deseo, no lo deseado.
Variante: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Fuente: Beyond Good and Evil
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
Fuente: Julius Caesar
“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Fuente: Thus Spoke Zarathustra