To może to... Fragment książki "Narcyz i Złotousty" Hermanna Hessego (1930 r.):

"O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all; but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning... or wise... and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening."

Einsteinowi przypisuje się* również cytat, który uwielbiam:

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results".


*Najprawdopobniej cytat powstał dużo wcześniej.

A bit less sophisticated - from a school bathroom wall:

Uczyć się, uczyć się i jeszcze raz uczyć się - Lenin.
Lenić się, lenić się i jeszcze raz lenić się - Uczeń.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese Proverb

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
-- Samuel Butler

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
-- Publilius Syrus

Beware the fury of a patient man.
-- John Dryden

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
-- William Blake

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
-- --Voltaire


Beauty is not caused. It is.
-- Emily Dickinson

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
-- Michel de Montaigne

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
-- Erasmus

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
-- Tertullian

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
-- Christopher Morley

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-- Alexander Pope

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
-- Emily Dickinson

A few memorable quotes from The Lord Of The Rings movies:

Théoden: "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"
Aragorn: "Ride out with me."
Aragorn: "Ride out and meet them."
Théoden: "For death and glory?"
Aragorn: "For Rohan. For your people."
Gimli: "The sun is rising."
Gandalf (voiceover): "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East."
Théoden: "Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time."
Théoden: "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together."
Théoden: "Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!"
Théoden: "Forð Eorlingas!"
Aragorn: "Gandalf."
Gandalf: "Théoden king stands alone."
Èomer: "Not alone."
Èomer: "Rohirrim!"
Èomer: "To the king!"


Gandalf: [to Grima] Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

Legolas: A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night.

Merry: I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.

Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe.

Ugluk: Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys.


Haldir: I bring word from Lord Elrond of Rivendell. An Alliance once existed between Elves and Men. Long ago we fought and died together. We come to honor that allegiance.
Aragorn: Mae govannen, Haldir. You are most welcome.
Haldir: We are proud to fight alongside Men once more.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - Woody Allen

A czy można pod tym mądrymi sentencjami pisać tłumaczenie .

"A man can be destroyed, but not defeated." - Człowieka można zniszczyć, ale nie pokonać.
Ernest Hemingway

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." - Lepiej być o trzy godziny za wcześnie niż o minutę za późno.
William Shakespeare

Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a beautiful girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

The two most important days in your life are the day you're born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

“He has the right to criticize if he has the heart to help.”

Abraham Lincoln

"Każdy Ma Swoje Papiery"!

-jkp

Bardzo duży wybór cytatów angielskich z tłumaczeniem
,może ktoś skorzysta. Pozdrawiam świątecznie,optymistycznie...http://www.elzab.com.pl/~michalp/aforyzmy/aforyzmy_angielskie.html

-"Idź przez życie tak, aby pozostały ślady Twoich stóp"
wg. Ks.Chrapek

-"śpieszmy się kochać ludzi, tak szybko odchodzą "
wg. Ks. J.Twardowski

The path to wisdom does, in fact, begin with a single step.
Where people go wrong is in ignoring all the thousands of other steps that come after it. They make the single step of deciding to become one with the universe, and for some reason forget to take the logical next step of living for seventy years on a mountain and a daily bowl of rice and yak-butter tea that would give it any kind of meaning. While evidence says that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.
Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

Ścieżka mądrości rzeczywiście zaczyna się od pierwszego kroku.
Ludzie jednak zwykle błądzą, gdyż ignorują tysiące kolejnych kroków, które trzeba wykonać potem. Robią pierwszy, decydując stać się jednością z wszechświatem, ale z jakichś powodów zapominają, by zrobić kolejny logiczny krok i żyć przez siedemdziesiąt lat na szczycie góry, z dzienną dietą złożoną z miseczki ryżu i kubka herbaty z masłem z mleka jaka, a dopiero to nadałoby tej decyzji jakiś sens. Wprawdzie dowody potwierdzają, że droga do piekła jest wybrukowana dobrymi chęciami, jednak prawdopodobnie wszystkie znajdują się w pierwszych krokach.

http://www.cytaty.info/temat/poangielsku/1 Moim zdaniem ,bardzo interesujące wybór,każdy może znaleźć coś dla siebie.

“We are persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.”
Tim Jackson

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" A.E.

Ja oglądając Annapolis zrozumiałem jeden (postęp ;D) "Before you achieve,you must believe!" I drugi inny, ale już po polsku "Wymagajcie od siebie choćby inni od was nie wymagali"

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”

"Good, better, best,
Never rest,
Till good be better,
And better best!"

I do not know the origin of this quotation, but it is simple and encouraging to deal with all difficulties on our way to good English.

Dwa moje ulubione cytaty i motta życiowe ;)

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation. (Oscar Wilde)

If you don't go after what you want... you'll never have it...
If you don't ask... the answer is always no...
If you don't step forward... you're always in the same place... (Nora Roberts)

"Creativity is intelligence having fun"
A. Einstein

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales" - Albert Einstein

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."


"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."

Marilyn Monroe

pojawil sie nowy temat na freerice.com, mianowicie famous quotes, czyli cos w temacie

http://freerice.com/#/famous-quotes/1773705

np "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"Pierwszy człowiek który porównał policzki młodej kobiety z różą był oczywiście poetą, pierwszy który to powtórzył był prawdopodobnie idiotą".

Salvador Dali

co byscie powiedzieli na to zeby te ciekawsze tlumaczyc na polski? czy ktos by sie tego podjal? bo moje tlumaczenie jakos mi nie brzmi...

Jakoś tak po przebudzeniu mnie "wzięło" na te klimaty, to może spróbuję...
Nie jest to tłumaczenie ale amatorska interpretacja, mojego pióra;)

> "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

Rożą - policzki młodej kobiety mienią się, poecie, zwyczajnie,
w ślad ten podąża idiota, normalnie.

... from the Internet:

"Laziness is the mother of all bad habits! But ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her!" :-)