Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 12

• All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

  Norman MacCaig

  Book, Fishing, Sides

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• I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Destiny, Two, Three

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.105

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• Es un mal humor que se deleita en la oposición.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Delight, Temper

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.341

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• Te aconsejo que leas con un bolígrafo en la mano y anotes en un librito breves indicios de lo que te parezca común o que pueda ser útil; pues éste será el mejor método de grabar en tu memoria tales portillos.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Needs, World

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pensamiento, Gobierno, Personas

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.396

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• Un esplendor de espíritus diversos.

  John Ruskin

  Venice, Spirit, Splendour

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• Se pierden más cosas buenas en la vida por la indiferencia que por la hostilidad activa.

  Robert Menzies

  Things In Life, Indifference, Good Things

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• La nueva frontera no está más allá de los planetas, sino dentro de cada uno de nosotros.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Planets, New Frontiers

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• The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Sometimes, Born

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• Cuando perdemos nuestra independencia individual en la corporatividad de un movimiento de masas, encontramos una nueva libertad: la libertad de odiar, intimidar, mentir, torturar, asesinar y traicionar sin vergüenza ni remordimiento.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Bully

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Expectations, Realization

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Hay una forma amable de ayudar a nuestros semejantes que basta para romperles el corazón al tiempo que salva su envoltura exterior.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Envelopes, Way

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2778, e-artnow

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• Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

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• Vivir es en sí mismo un juicio de valor. Respirar es juzgar.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

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• Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Wander, Anxious

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.105, Vintage

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• Tenemos los ojos muy abiertos cuando contemplamos la posibilidad de que exista vida en otros lugares del universo, pero llevamos anteojeras cuando contemplamos las posibilidades de vida en la Tierra.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Possibility

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• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

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• Un poco de aprendizaje no es algo peligroso para quien no lo confunde con mucho.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

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• The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

  Chester Bowles

  Attitude, Reason, Characteristics

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• Antes perecer que odiar y temer, y dos veces antes perecer que hacerse odiar y temer: ésta debe convertirse algún día en la máxima suprema de todas las mancomunidades.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Maxims, Commonwealth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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• Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Desire, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.447, Routledge

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• Comprendemos la naturaleza resistiéndonos a ella.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Resistir a

  Gaston Bachelard (2002). “The formation of the scientific mind”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Exercise, Order

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