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Terry Pratchett Foto
Marcus Aurelius Foto

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Lass dich nie von der Zukunft verschrecken. Du wirst ihr, wenn es sein muss, mit den gleichen Waffen der Vernunft begegnen, die dich heute für die Gegenwart rüsten.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Quelle: VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth)

Guy De Maupassant Foto
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
Alles in Maßen, auch in der Mäßigung.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Oscar Wilde Foto

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Die Bücher, die die Welt unmoralisch nennt, sind Bücher, die der Welt ihre eigene Schande zeigen.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
Die Welt war meine Auster, aber ich benutzte die falsche Gabel.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
Ich denke, dass wir irgendwie lernen, wer wir wirklich sind und dann mit dieser Entscheidung leben.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1972) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 5

Peter F. Drucker Foto
Joseph Brodsky Foto

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Misattributed

Marcus Aurelius Foto

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Lehnen Sie Ihr Verletzungsgefühl ab und die Verletzung selbst verschwindet.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Quelle: Meditations

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”
Ein Beschwichtiger ist einer, der ein Krokodil füttert - in der Hoffnung, dass es ihn zuletzt frisst.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In Reader's Digest (December 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variante: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”
Die Wahrheit ist in der Regel die beste Rechtfertigung gegenüber Verleumdung.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Letter to Edwin Stanton (14 July 1864); published in Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) by John Hay
1860s

Stephen King Foto

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
Es war die Möglichkeit der Dunkelheit, die den Tag so hell erscheinen ließ.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Quelle: Wolves of the Calla

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Entwickeln Erfolg von Fehlern. Entmutigung und Misserfolg sind zwei der sichersten Trittsteine zum Erfolg.

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Paulo Coelho Foto

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
Wenn Sie jemanden lieben, müssen Sie bereit sein, ihn freizulassen.

Paulo Coelho buch The Winner Stands Alone

Quelle: The Winner Stands Alone

Viktor E. Frankl Foto

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
In gewisser Weise hört das Leiden in dem Moment auf, in dem es einen Sinn findet, wie etwa die Bedeutung eines Opfers.

Viktor E. Frankl buch … trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Quelle: Man's Search for Meaning

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Ist es besser, das Monster auszutricksen oder leise verschlungen zu werden?

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
C.G. Jung Foto

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
Jede Form von Sucht ist schlecht, egal, ob die Droge Alkohol, Morphium oder Idealismus ist.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”
Ich habe als Baby laufen gelernt und seitdem keine Lehrstunde mehr gehabt.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Terry Pratchett Foto

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
Wenn es etwas gab, das ihn mehr bedrückte als seinen eigenen Zynismus, dann war es ziemlich oft immer noch nicht so zynisch wie im wirklichen Leben.

Terry Pratchett buch Guards! Guards!

Quelle: Guards! Guards!

Mark Twain Foto

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
Es gab noch nie ein uninteressantes Leben. So etwas ist eine Unmöglichkeit. Innerhalb des langweiligsten Äußeren gibt es ein Drama, eine Komödie und eine Tragödie.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
Alles ist schon herausgefunden worden, außer wie man lebt.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Jack Kerouac Foto

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Große Dinge werden nicht von denen erreicht, die Trends und Moden und der öffentlichen Meinung nachgeben.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

This is not a quote by Kerouac. It's a quote by CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt who used to present a TV news segment called 'On the Road' (which is probably how the confusion arose). This particular statement by Kuralt was made in May 1996 to students of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19960527&id=yf8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yQcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3106,5606314
Misattributed

Franz Kafka Foto
W.B. Yeats Foto

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Denken Sie wie ein Weißer, aber sprechen Sie mit der Sprache der Menschen.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Variante: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Mark Twain Foto

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Ersetzen Sie "verdammt" jedes Mal, wenn Sie dazu neigen, "sehr" zu schreiben. Ihr Editor wird es löschen und das Schreiben wird genau so sein, wie es sein sollte.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Oscar Wilde Foto

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Das Geheimnis der Liebe ist größer als das Geheimnis des Todes.

Oscar Wilde Salome

le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Quelle: Salomé (1893)

Stephen King Foto

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
Sie können, Sie sollten und wenn Sie mutig genug sind, um anzufangen, werden Sie es tun.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Quelle: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
Der Maler hat das Universum im Kopf und in den Händen.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
Mein Vater hat mir beigebracht zu arbeiten, aber es nicht zu lieben. Ich habe nie gerne gearbeitet und ich leugne es nicht. Ich würde lieber lesen, Geschichten erzählen, Witze machen, reden, lachen - alles andere als arbeiten.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Jane Austen Foto

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
Es gibt eine Hartnäckigkeit an mir, die es niemals ertragen kann, sich nach dem Willen anderer zu fürchten. Bei jedem Versuch, mich einzuschüchtern, wächst mein Mut.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
Ich kann verstehen, dass ein Mensch zum Atheisten wird, wenn er auf die Erde hinunterschaut. Aber wie jemand den Blick zum Himmel emporrichten und sagen kann, es gebe keinen Gott, ist mir unbegreiflich.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Recollection by Gilbert J. Greene, quoted in The Speaking Oak (1902) by Ferdinand C. Iglehart and Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln (1917) by Ervin S. Chapman
Posthumous attributions

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Mit dem neuen Tag kommen neue Kraft und neue Gedanken.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Mark Twain Foto

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
In den Himmel kommt man durch Gefallen. Wenn es nach dem Verdienst ginge, würden Sie draußen bleiben und Ihr Hund würde hineingehen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
C.G. Jung Foto

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Zeig mir einen gesunden Mann und ich werde ihn heilen.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Lassen Sie uns lernen, unsere Freundschaft für einen man zu zeigen, wenn er lebt und nicht, nachdem er tot ist.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 9

Francois Mauriac Foto

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
Wenn Sie mir das Herz eines Mannes sagen würden, sagen Sie mir nicht, was er liest, sondern was er nachliest.

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author
Norman Vincent Peale Foto
Mark Twain Foto

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Die Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht, aber sie reimt sich.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Origins unclear. Earliest known match in print comes from 1970, in a collection called “Neo Poems” by Canadian artist John Robert Colombo, who recalled reading it sometime in the 1960s. Twain did say "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends." in the 1874 edition of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day”. A thematic precursor, "History May Not Repeat, But It Looks Alike", appears in a 1941 article by Chicago Tribune in Illinois. (Source: Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/)
Misattributed

Mark Twain Foto

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
Die leichte Zuversicht, mit der ich weiß, die Religion eines anderen Mannes ist Torheit, lehrt mich, zu vermuten, dass meine es auch ist.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

marginal note in Moncure D. Conway's Sacred Anthology
quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

Mark Twain Foto

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
Die Bibel enthält edle Gedichte… und einige gute Moralgeschichten und eine Fülle von Obszönitäten und mehr als tausend Lügen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Aristotle Foto

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
Armut ist die Mutter der Revolution und des Verbrechens.

Aristotle buch Politik

Book II, Section VI ( translation http://archive.org/stream/aristotlespolit00aris#page/69/mode/1up by Benjamin Jowett)
Politics
Kontext: One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Terry Pratchett Foto

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
Das gesamte Universum wurde ordentlich in Dinge unterteilt, um (a) sich zu paaren, (b) zu essen, (c) wegzulaufen und (d) Felsen.

Terry Pratchett buch Equal Rites

Quelle: Equal Rites

John Lennon Foto

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. Of this incident Mark Hertsgaard reports in A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995): "The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre-performance threat to tell them to "rattle their fuckin' jewelry."

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Kristin Hannah buch The Nightingale

Quelle: The Nightingale

Bob Dylan Foto

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
Spiel es verdammt laut!

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
John Lennon Foto

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
Wenn ein Egomane zu sein bedeutet, an das zu glauben, was ich tue und an meine Kunst oder Musik, dann können Sie mich diesbezüglich so nennen ... Ich glaube an das, was ich tue, und ich werde es sagen.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Walter Benjamin Foto

“History is written by the victors.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Zig Ziglar Foto

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
Fehlende Richtung, nicht Zeitmangel, ist das Problem. Wir haben alle vierundzwanzig Stundentage.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ich liebe den Schlaf. Mein Leben hat die Angewohnheit auseinander zu fallen wenn ich wach bin.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ
Disputed

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disputed
Variante: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Immer wenn ich jemanden für Sklaverei streiten höre, verspüre ich einen starken Drang, zu sehen, wie er es persönlich versucht.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Peter Ustinov Foto

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
Ich stelle mir die Hölle so vor: italienische Pünktlichkeit, deutscher Humor und englischer Wein.

Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
Eckhart Tolle Foto

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
Das Leben ist der Tänzer und du bist der Tanz.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Quelle: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Mode ist eine Form von Hässlichkeit, die so unerträglich ist, dass wir sie alle sechs Monate ändern müssen.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variante: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
Der kleinste Akt der Güte ist mehr wert als die bedeutendste Absicht.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Rainer Maria Rilke Foto

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeben ist, das Äußerste, die letzte Probe und Prüfung, die Arbeit, für die alle andere Arbeit nur Vorbereitung ist.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Variante: For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Quelle: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Kontext: People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Jane Austen Foto

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Das Leben scheint nur eine schnelle Abfolge von geschäftigen Dingen zu sein.

Jane Austen buch Mansfield Park

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
Misattributed
Quelle: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
Alles was Sie tun müssen, ist einen wahren Satz zu schreiben. Schreiben Sie den wahrsten Satz, den Sie kennen.

Ernest Hemingway buch Paris – Ein Fest fürs Leben

Quelle: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 2
Kontext: I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

Paul McCartney Foto

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
Sie können den wahren Charakter eines Mannes daran messen, wie er seine Artgenossen behandelt.

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“We must keep moving. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”
Wenn du nicht fliegen kannst, renn. Wenn Sie nicht laufen können, gehen Sie. Wenn du nicht laufen kannst, krieche. Bleib in Bewegung!

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

"Keep Moving from this Mountain" http://www5.spelman.edu/about_us/news/pdf/70622_messenger.pdf – Founders Day Address at the Sisters Chapel, Spelman College (11 April 1960)
1960s

Bertrand Russell Foto

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
In allen Angelegenheiten ist es hin und wieder sinnvoll, Dinge mit einem Fragezeichen zu versehen, die wir schon lange für selbstverständlich halten.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

As quoted in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given.
Disputed
Variante: In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Mark Twain Foto

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
Alles, was man zum Leben braucht, ist Unwissenheit und Selbstvertrauen, dann ist der Erfolg sicher.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Mark Twain's Notebook, 1887
Letter to Cordelia Welsh Foote (Cincinnati), 2 December 1887. Letter reprinted http://www.twainquotes.com/Success.html in Benjamin De Casseres's When Huck Finn Went Highbrow https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-huck-finn-went-highbrow/oclc/2514292 (1934)

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Vielleicht weiß ich am besten, warum der Mensch allein lacht: er allein leidet so tief, daß er das Lachen erfinden mußte.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Bertrand Russell Foto

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Quelle: Unpopular Essays

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Die Öffentlichkeit hat eine unstillbare Neugier, alles zu wissen, nur nicht das Wissenswerte.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quelle: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose

Robert T. Kiyosaki Foto

“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself…”
Was Du über mich denkst, geht mich nichts an. Wichtig ist, was ich selber von mir denke.

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Quelle: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

Mark Twain Foto

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
Die Wahrheit ist seltsamer als die Fiktion, aber es ist so, weil Fiction zu Möglichkeiten bleiben verpflichtet ist, die Wahrheit ist es nicht.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XV
Misquoted as "Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." by Laurence J. Peter in "Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time", among many others.
Following the Equator (1897)
Quelle: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

John Steinbeck Foto

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
Ich bin geboren verloren und keine Freude in gefunden wird.

John Steinbeck buch Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
Anfangs lieben Kinder ihre Eltern; wenn sie älter werden, halten sie Gericht über sie; manchmal verzeihen sie ihnen.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Variante: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Carlin Foto

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
Ich mag es, wenn eine Blume oder ein kleines Grasbüschel durch einen Riss im Beton wächst. Es ist so verdammt heroisch.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”
Wie ein gut verbrachter Tag einen glücklichen Schlaf beschert, so beschert ein gut verbrachtes Leben einen glücklichen Tod.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Mark Twain Foto

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Die Angst vor dem Tod folgt aus der Angst vor dem Leben. Ein Mann, der vollständig lebt, ist jederzeit bereit zu sterben.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed

Joseph Campbell Foto

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
Wo du stolperst und fällst, dort wirst du Gold finden.

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Paulo Coelho Foto

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
Nichts auf der Welt ist jemals völlig falsch. Sogar eine angehaltene Uhr ist zweimal am Tag richtig.

Paulo Coelho buch Brida

Quelle: Brida

Terry Pratchett Foto

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
Sie lernte schon, dass, wenn man die Regeln ignoriert, die Leute sie in der Hälfte der Fälle in aller Stille umschreiben, so dass sie einen nicht betreffen.

Terry Pratchett buch Equal Rites

Quelle: Equal Rites

Sigmund Freud Foto

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Nicht zum Ausdruck gebrachte Gefühle werden niemals sterben. Sie werden lebendig begraben und kommen später auf hässlichere Weise hervor.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
John Lennon Foto

“When you're drowning you don't think, You just scream.”
Wenn man ertrinkt, denkt man nicht, man schreit.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Benjamin Disraeli Foto
Jack Kerouac Foto

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
Mein ganzes elendes Leben schwamm vor meinen müden Augen, und mir wurde klar, egal, was du tust, es ist am Ende bestimmt Zeitverschwendung, also kannst du genauso gut verrückt werden.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Quelle: On the Road: The Original Scroll

Albert Einstein zitat: “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein Foto

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Wem in kleinen Dingen die Wahrheit nachlässig ist, dem kann in wichtigen Dingen nicht vertraut werden.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1950s
Kontext: In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

(1955) as quoted in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1997) ed. , p. 388, from The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (1979)

Oscar Wilde Foto

“All art is quite useless.”

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variante: All art is immoral.

Albert Einstein Foto

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Sie können den Krieg nicht gleichzeitig verhindern und vorbereiten.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Immanuel Kant Foto

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

Immanuel Kant buch Critique of Pure Reason

B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variante: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Quelle: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

Blaise Pascal Foto
Mark Twain Foto

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
Wenn Sie wütend sind, zählen Sie bis vier. Wenn Sie sehr wütend sind, fluchen Sie.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Oscar Wilde Foto

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20

Giacomo Leopardi Foto

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Kinder finden alles in nichts, Menschen finden nichts in allem.

Giacomo Leopardi buch Zibaldone

Quelle: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Nichts lässt die Erde so weiträumig erscheinen, als Freunde in einiger Entfernung zu haben. Sie bestimmen die Breiten- und Längengrade.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
Der Mensch ist das grausamste Tier.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Oscar Wilde Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Ich kann mich nicht mehr an all die Bücher erinnern, die ich gelesen habe, wie ich mich auch nicht an all die Mahlzeiten erinnere, die ich gegessen habe. Trotzdem haben sie mich gemacht.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variante: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”
Unvollkommenheit ist Schönheit, Wahnsinn ist Genialität

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Charlie Chaplin Foto

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
Sie werden feststellen, dass sich das Leben noch lohnt, wenn Sie nur lächeln.

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Lyrics to "Smile", written by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons in 1954, the music of which was composed by Chaplin in 1936. - "Smile" music, as used in Modern Times (1936) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6ck1ejoAw - "Smile" tribute to Chaplin, as sung by Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
Misattributed
Kontext: Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile with your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile.

Thomas Mann Foto

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Ein Schriftsteller ist jemand, für den das Schreiben schwieriger ist als für andere Menschen.

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

Quelle: Essays of Three Decades (1942)

Albert Schweitzer Foto

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Erfolg ist nicht der Schlüssel zum Glück. Glück ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg. Wenn Sie lieben, was Sie tun, werden Sie erfolgreich sein.

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variante: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Es kann keine tiefe Enttäuschung geben, wenn es keine tiefe Liebe gibt.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)

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