Splendid Quotes - Page 17

• Hay un tiempo de cosecha en las razas de los hombres, como en los frutos del campo; y a veces, si la cepa es buena, surge por un tiempo una sucesión de hombres espléndidos; y luego viene un período de esterilidad.

  Aristotle

  Life, Spring, Men

  "Rhetoric", II. 15. Par, III in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• "El Universo se repite, con la posible excepción de la Historia". De todos los estudios terrenales, la Historia es el único que no se repite. ... La astronomía se repite; la botánica se repite; la trigonometría se repite; la mecánica se repite; la división larga compuesta se repite. Cada suma, si se calcula de la misma manera en cualquier momento, dará la misma respuesta. ... Muchos modernos dicen que la historia es una ciencia; si es así, ocupa un lugar solitario y espléndido entre las ciencias; es la única ciencia cuyas conclusiones son siempre erróneas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ciencia, Larga, Historia

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• Descubridor de muchas cosas espléndidas, se dice que pidió a sus amigos y parientes que, tras su muerte, colocaran sobre su tumba un cilindro que encerrara una esfera, escribiendo en él la proporción entre el sólido que contenía y el que contenía.

  Arquímedes

  Escritura, Ciencia, Esferas

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• This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Queens, Thinking, Mathematics

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• Las rosas, las notas bonitas, las cenas y los bailes son bienvenidos y espléndidos. Pero cuando la Godiva desaparece, el verdadero regalo del amor es tener a alguien que te acompañe hasta el final. Alguien que, cuando la limusina del día de la boda se avería, está dispuesto a compartir asiento en el autobús.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Boda, Real, Distancia

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• Muchacho, las 'quenelles de sole' estaban espléndidas, pero los guisantes, pobres. Debes agitar la sartén suavemente, todo el tiempo, así.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Boys, Vegetables, Poor

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• [Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

  Georges Cuvier

  Art, Honor, Ornithology

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• Shakespeare nos lleva a una tensión tan elevada de actividad inteligente, como para sugerir una riqueza que mendiga la suya propia; y entonces sentimos que las espléndidas obras que ha creado, y que en otras horas ensalzamos como una especie de poesía autoexistente, no tienen más asidero en la naturaleza real que la sombra de un viajero que pasa sobre la roca. La inspiración que se expresó en Hamlet y Lear podría pronunciar cosas tan buenas de un día para otro, para siempre.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Inspiration, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

  Mordecai Richler

  Father, Dying, Ashes

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• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

  Fanny Kemble

  Gente, Dar, Casa

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Muchas causas tienden a hacer que los buenos amos y amas sean tan raros como los buenos criados.... Las grandes y rápidas fortunas por las que personas vulgares e ignorantes llegan a poseer casas espléndidas, espléndidamente amuebladas, no les dan, por supuesto, los sentimientos y modales de la gente gentil, ni les elevan realmente en modo alguno por encima de los criados que emplean, que son muy conscientes de este hecho, y de que la posesión de riqueza es literalmente la única superioridad que sus patrones tienen sobre ellos.

  Fanny Kemble

  Gente, Dar, Casa

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Ahora, cuando la prímula se muestra espléndida, y los lirios se enfrentan a los vientos de marzo en pleno soplo, y las plantas más humildes, movidas por un deseo, se ponen su mejor atuendo para dar la bienvenida a la primavera, el pobre Robin aún no tiene flores; ¡pero qué alegre con sus tallos rojos en este día soleado!

  William Wordsworth

  Primavera, Gay, Blow

  William Wordsworth (1852). "Obras poéticas completas", p.419

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• The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.

  Tryon Edwards

  Hermoso, Verano, Otoño

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• How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Land, Limits, Wide

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 267

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

  Origen

  Father, Sacred, Mystery

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• El ajedrez es una cosa, pero si llegamos al punto de que los ordenadores pueden superar a los humanos en las artes -esas espléndidas expresiones milenarias del corazón y el alma de la existencia humana-, entonces ¿para qué molestarse en existir? para producir arte humano, un ordenador tendría que encontrar, sentir, absorber la realidad hasta el punto de superarla, hasta el punto de sollozar para liberarse. Un ordenador podría replicar todas las posibilidades, pero nunca podría transferir la energía que el arte necesita para existir.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sweet, Fighting

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• But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Animal, Flames

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.

  Amy Carmichael

  Country, Fear, Thinking

  Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.1, CLC Publications

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Antón Chéjov

  Madre, hijos, padre

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• ¡¿Puede la riqueza dar la felicidad? ¡Mirad a vuestro alrededor y ved, qué alegre angustia! qué espléndida miseria! Todo lo que las fortunas pueden derramar pródigamente, la mente lo aniquila y pide más.

  Andrew Young

  Gay, Dar, Mente

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• Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Nature, Prayer

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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