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Oscar Wilde Foto

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
Diese Tapete ist schrecklich, einer von uns wird gehen müssen.

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

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
Spiegel sollten länger überlegen, bevor sie zurückspiegeln.

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Ein Maler sollte jede Leinwand mit einem Hauch von Schwarz beginnen, da alle Dinge in der Natur dunkel sind, es sei denn, sie werden dem Licht ausgesetzt.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Alexandre Dumas Foto
Emily Brontë Foto

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”

Emily Brontë buch Sturmhöhe

Quelle: Wuthering Heights

Mark Twain Foto

“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.”
Nach all diesen Jahren erkenne ich, dass ich mich anfangs in Eva geirrt habe. Besser ist es, außerhalb des Gartens mit ihr zu leben, als ohne sie darin.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Quelle: Diaries of Adam & Eve

Albert Einstein Foto

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Sie scheitern nie, bis Sie aufhören zu versuchen.

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

“If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”
Glaubst du, wenn ich ein anderes Gesicht hätte, würde ich dieses tragen?

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

Attributed in Jean Dresden Grambs (1959), Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth
Misattributed
Variante: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Franz Kafka Foto

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
Der Sinn des Lebens liegt darin, dass es aufhört.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Mark Twain Foto

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Nennen Sie den größten aller Erfinder. Unfall.

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

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Allein können wir so wenig tun; zusammen können wir so viel machen.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/

C.G. Jung Foto
George Gordon Byron Foto

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
Lache immer, wenn du kannst. Es ist billige Medizin.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Jane Austen Foto

“We are all fools in love”
Wir sind alle verliebte Idioten.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Mark Twain Foto

“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.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

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
Quelle: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Mark Twain Foto

“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.”
In einem guten Bücherraum haben Sie auf mysteriöse Weise das Gefühl, dass Sie die Weisheit, die in allen Büchern enthalten ist, über Ihre Haut aufnehmen, ohne sie zu öffnen.

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

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Kennst du nicht die Redensart ‚Ein Mann ist nicht tot, solange sein Name gesprochen wird?

Terry Pratchett buch Going Postal

Quelle: Going Postal

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Foto

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Es ist die Schwierigkeit, die das Genie in uns wecken.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb buch Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Stephen King Foto

“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.”
Sie wissen, schizoides Verhalten ist bei Kindern weit verbreitet. Man akzeptiert es aber, weil wir Erwachsenen alle diese unausgesprochene Vereinbarung haben, dass Kinder Wahnsinnige sind.

Stephen King buch Shining

The Shining (1977)

George Carlin Foto

“Meow means "woof" in cat.”
Miau bedeutet "Wuff" in Katzisch.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, Brain Droppings (1997)

Alexander Pope Foto

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Dummköpfe eilen herein, wo Engel Angst haben, aufzutreten.

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

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)
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism

Rainer Maria Rilke Foto

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Ach, wie gut ist es doch, unter lesenden Menschen zu sein.

Rainer Maria Rilke buch Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Quelle: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Hans Christian Andersen Foto

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
Aber die Seejungfrau hat keine Tränen, und darum leidet sie viel mehr.

Hans Christian Andersen buch The Little Mermaid

Quelle: The Little Mermaid

Joyce Meyer Foto

“Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Quelle: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Peter F. Drucker Foto

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Management ist, Dinge richtig zu machen; Führung ist, die richtigen Dinge zu tun.

Peter F. Drucker buch The Essential Drucker

Misattributed
Variante: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Quelle: The Essential Drucker

Oscar Wilde Foto

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Guten Rat kann man nur weitergeben. Es nützt einem selbst nie etwas.

Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte

Lord Goring, Act I
Variante: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Fast alle Männer können Widrigkeiten aushalten, aber wenn Sie den Charakter eines Mannes testen möchten, geben Sie ihm Macht.

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

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

Confucius Foto

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
Studieren Sie die Vergangenheit, wenn Sie die Zukunft definieren würden.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“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.”
Langfristig gestalten wir unser Leben und wir gestalten uns selbst. Der Prozess endet nie, bis wir sterben. Und die Entscheidungen, die wir treffen, liegen letztendlich in unserer eigenen Verantwortung.

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

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.

Ovid Foto

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Sei geduldig und stark; irgendwann wird dieser Schmerz dir nützlich sein.

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Wer im Rahmen seiner Möglichkeiten lebt, leidet unter mangelnder Vorstellungskraft.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variante: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Jack Kerouac Foto

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”
Der beste Lehrer ist Erfahrung und nicht durch irgendjemandes verzerrte Sichtweise.

Jack Kerouac buch Unterwegs

Misattributed
Quelle: 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.

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Es ist nichts Edles daran, deinen Mitmenschen überlegen zu sein. Wahre Größe besteht darin, deinem früheren Selbst überlegen zu sein.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
George Carlin Foto

“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
Menschen, die das Leben als etwas anderes als reine Unterhaltung ansehen, verpassen den Sinn.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Quelle: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Ich wurde nicht geboren, um gezwungen zu werden. Ich werde nach meiner eigenen Mode atmen. Mal sehen, wer der Stärkste ist.

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

Quelle: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
Ich werde lächeln, und mein Lächeln wird in deinen Pupillen versinken, und der Himmel weiß, was daraus werden wird.

Jean Paul Sartre Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Quelle: No Exit

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Als Schriftsteller dürfen Sie nicht urteilen, Sie müssen verstehen.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Adolf Hitler Foto

“If you win, you need not have to explain… If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
Wenn du gewinnst, musst du nicht erklären … Wenn du verlierst, solltest du nicht da sein, um zu erklären!

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Charles Bukowski Foto

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
Es gibt eine Einsamkeit auf dieser Welt, die so groß ist, dass man sie in den langsamen Bewegungen der Zeiger einer Uhr sehen kann.

Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell

Variante: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Zitat ist ein brauchbarer Ersatz für Witz.

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

“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.”
Und werde ich sagen, dass diese drei glücklich gelebt haben? Nein, werde ich nicht, denn niemand tut es jemals. Aber es gab Glück. Und sie haben gelebt.

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Quelle: The Dark Tower

Mark Twain Foto

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Kleider machen Leute. Nackte Leute haben kaum oder gar keinen Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Variante: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Eckhart Tolle Foto

“The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

Charlie Chaplin Foto

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
Nichts in dieser verrückten Welt hält für immer - nicht mal unsere Probleme.

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
Khaled Hosseini Foto
Oscar Wilde Foto

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Die Wahrheit ist selten rein und niemals einfach.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: 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."

Bertrand Russell Foto

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Die Liebe fürchten heißt, das Leben fürchten, und wer das Leben fürchtet, ist schon zu drei Vierteln tot.

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

1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)

Mark Twain Foto

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
Wenn die Abstimmung etwas ausmachte, ließen sie uns das nicht tun.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variante: If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Das Gute endete glücklich und das Schlechte unglücklich. So soll Erdichtetes sein.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Miss Prism, Act II
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Ich habe beschlossen, bei der Liebe zu bleiben … Hass ist eine zu große Last, um sie zu tragen.

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

Quelle: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

C.G. Jung Foto

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Jonathan Safran Foer Foto

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oscar Wilde Foto

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Eine Sache ist nicht unbedingt richtig, nur weil jemand dafür gestorben ist.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/portrait/wh01.html (1889)

Jane Austen Foto

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Geschäfte machen, meint man, bringt möglicherweise Geld ein, jedoch kaum jemals Freundschaft.

Jane Austen buch Emma

Quelle: Emma (1815)

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Man kann keine kleinere oder größere Meisterschaft haben als sich selbst.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variante: You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Walter Benjamin Foto

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Francois Mauriac Foto
Franz Kafka Foto

“By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

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

Eckhart Tolle Foto

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
Was immer der gegenwärtige Moment enthält, nimm es an, als hättest Du es selber so gewählt.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.

Friedrich Nietzsche buch Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert

Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Quelle: Twilight of the Idols (1888)

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“All through life, be sure and put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.”
Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie Ihre Füße an der richtigen Stelle platzieren und dann fest stehen.

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

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
Variante: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

James Baldwin Foto

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
Freiheit kann niemandem gegeben werden; Freiheit ist etwas, das Menschen sich nehmen, und Menschen sind so frei, wie sie es sein wollen.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Angelina Jolie Foto

“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
Ich habe mich nie niedergelassen oder beruhigt gefühlt. Du kannst dich nicht wirklich auf das Leben einlassen, wenn du dich so fühlst.

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Jean Paul Sartre Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Meine Art, Witze zu machen, ist, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Sie ist der größte Witz der Welt.

George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island

Act II
Quelle: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“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."”

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

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

Napoleon Hill Foto

“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.”
Sie sind der Meister Ihres Schicksals. Sie können Ihre Umgebung beeinflussen, steuern und kontrollieren. Sie können Ihr Leben nach Ihren eigenen Vorstellungen gestalten.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Quelle: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

William Faulkner Foto

“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.”
Haben Sie niemals Angst, Ihre Stimme für Ehrlichkeit und Wahrhaftigkeit und Mitgefühl gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Lüge und Gier zu erheben. Wenn Menschen auf der ganzen Welt dies tun würden, würde dies die Erde verändern.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Oscar Wilde Foto

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Das Wesen der Romantik ist die Ungewissheit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variante: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Terry Pratchett Foto

“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.”
Fantasie ist ein Fitnessgrad für den Geist. Es mag dich nirgendwohin bringen, aber es baut die Muskeln auf, die es können. Ich kann mich natürlich täuschen.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Foto

“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) French bishop and theologian

Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)

Joanne K. Rowling Foto

“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.”
Die Geschichten, die wir am liebsten haben, leben für immer in uns. Egal, ob Sie seitenweise oder auf der großen Leinwand zurückkommen, Hogwarts wird immer da sein, um Sie zu Hause willkommen zu heißen.

Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s

Jacques Prevért Foto

“All will be lost apart from happiness.”

Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter

Attributed

Joanne K. Rowling Foto

“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.”

Joanne K. Rowling (1965) British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series

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)

Benjamin Disraeli Foto

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variante: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Honoré de Balzac Foto

“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

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

Norman Cousins Foto

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

15 April 1978.
Saturday Review

Gautama Buddha Foto

“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

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

Norman Schwarzkopf Foto

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

Norman Schwarzkopf (1934–2012) United States Army general

Also attributed to Robert H. Schuller

Voltaire Foto

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane nowe] (1964)
Misattributed

Benjamin Franklin Foto

“We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”
Wir hören nicht auf zu spielen, weil wir alt werden, wir werden alt, weil wir aufhören zu spielen.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

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

Guy De Maupassant Foto

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090

Agatha Christie Foto

“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”
Es ist wirklich sehr gefährlich, Menschen Glauben zu schenken. Ich habe dies jahrelang nie getan.

Agatha Christie buch Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

James Legge Foto

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

James Legge (1815–1897) missionary in China

Bk. 14, Ch. 29 (p. 208)
Translations, The Confucian Analects

Andrew Jackson Foto

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States

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

Napoleon I of France Foto

“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.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Jacques Prevért Foto

“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”

Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter

Attributed

Edward Hopper Foto

“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
Das Wichtigste für mich ist das Gefühl, weiterzukommen. Man weiß, wie schön die Dinge sind, wenn man unterwegs ist.

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker

'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', as cited by William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1967
posthumous

Napoleon I of France Foto

“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

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

William Blake Foto

“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Quelle: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 12

Seneca the Younger Foto

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Glück ist, was passiert, wenn Vorbereitung auf Gelegenheit trifft.

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

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

Emil M. Cioran Foto

“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”
… alle Philosophen zusammen genommen sind nicht so viel Wert wie ein einziger Heiliger.

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Tears and Saints (1937)

Albert Camus Foto

“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”

Albert Camus buch A Happy Death

Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.
A Happy Death (1971)

Honoré de Balzac Foto

“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Qui parle trop veut tromper.
Part I, ch. VI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)

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