Micko
@Micko, member from June 4, 2020
„Prawo jest jak pajęczyna, w której małe muchy grzęzną, a osy i trzmiele przez nią przelatują.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) pisarz irlandzki
Laws are cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through (ang.)
Source: w 1707
„Słonia przeważnie rysuje się mniejszego, niż jest w rzeczywistości, a pchłę większą.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) pisarz irlandzki
Source: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał K. Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Tak bardzo się lubimy, ponieważ nasze dolegliwości są takie same.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) pisarz irlandzki
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) amerykański pisarz, autor literatury dziecięcej (Dr. Seuss)
„Dorośli to przeterminowane dzieci.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) amerykański pisarz, autor literatury dziecięcej (Dr. Seuss)
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Though this statement and a few other variants of it have been widely attributed to Herman Melville, it is actually a paraphrase of one found in a sermon of Henry Melvill, "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855) :
: There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others—operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
Misattributed
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
Context: It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
Context: It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small. Let us believe it, then, once for all, that there is no hope for us in these smooth pleasing writers that know their powers.
„Najbardziej przeraża codzienność, przed którą nikt nie może się ukryć.”
Anton Czechow (1860–1904) rosyjski nowelista i dramatopisarz
„Jeśli chcesz mieć mało czasu, nie rób nic.”
Anton Czechow (1860–1904) rosyjski nowelista i dramatopisarz
„Kłamstwo jest jak alkoholizm. Kłamcy kłamią nawet w obliczu śmierci.”
Anton Czechow (1860–1904) rosyjski nowelista i dramatopisarz