“La gente mantiene conversaciones enteras basadas en proverbios. Pero no están VIVIENDO los proverbios.”
Idries Shah 481
1924–1996Citas similares
“A la gente solo les disgusta la conversación cuando trata sobre ellos.”
Fuente: Citado en: Victor Herbert Prochnow, The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958), p. 190
Original: «People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humour is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline - right back of J. Edgar Hoover».
Fuente: The Yale Book of Quotations. Editores Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro, Fred R. Shapiro. Colaborador Joseph Epstein. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780300107982. p. 111. https://books.google.es/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA111&dq=Every+day+people+are+straying+away+from+the+church+and+going+back+to+God..+Lenny+Bruce&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivnbLfpK_gAhXr1-AKHSB_D_EQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Every%20day%20people%20are%20straying%20away%20from%20the%20church%20and%20going%20back%20to%20God..%20Lenny%20Bruce&f=false
Fuente: The Essential Lenny Bruce, edición de John Cohen, 1967.
“Imagina a toda la gente viviendo la vida en paz.”
“Era difícil mantener una conversación con alguien, había demasiada gente hablando.”
Original: «A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it».
Fuente: Twivy, Paul. Be Your Own Politician: Why It's Time For a New Kind of Politics. Biteback Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9781849549073. 304 páginas. https://books.google.es/books?id=52e6BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&dq=9781849549073&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwm87N9rrhAhUMzhoKHSC5DCIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=A%20consensus%20politician%20is%20someone%20who%20does%20something&f=false