Записка Десятая. George Bernard Shaw.
Не прошло и недели с момента моего приезда из Соединенного Королевства, а я уже пишу следующую, десятую записку... Десятая записка - можно сказать, юбилей! А теперь собственно записка.
George Bernard Shaw.
Ирландский писатель и драматург, великий человек и великий скептик.
О его произведениях можно говорить много и долго (многие так и делают:), но я хотел бы ограничится его афоризмами. Я пишу их здесь на языке оригинала, хотя перевод у меня есть - всё-таки in english его изречения звучат "острее" и изящнее. Не буду комментировать эти афоризмы, пусть каждый сам найдет в них смысл. Скажу лишь, что над каждым из этих изречений стоит подумать, даже если они Вам не понравятся.
There are two tragedies in life:
one is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them apart.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Alcohol is anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
No question is so difficult to answer that to which the answer is obvious.
Who has never hoped can never despair.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of women who love me.
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Better never than late.
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
The harder I work the more I live.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I want to sleep... (George Bernard Shaw's last words)
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George Bernard Shaw.
Ирландский писатель и драматург, великий человек и великий скептик.
О его произведениях можно говорить много и долго (многие так и делают:), но я хотел бы ограничится его афоризмами. Я пишу их здесь на языке оригинала, хотя перевод у меня есть - всё-таки in english его изречения звучат "острее" и изящнее. Не буду комментировать эти афоризмы, пусть каждый сам найдет в них смысл. Скажу лишь, что над каждым из этих изречений стоит подумать, даже если они Вам не понравятся.
There are two tragedies in life:
one is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them apart.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Alcohol is anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
No question is so difficult to answer that to which the answer is obvious.
Who has never hoped can never despair.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of women who love me.
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Better never than late.
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
The harder I work the more I live.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I want to sleep... (George Bernard Shaw's last words)
Если что-то непонятно - обращайтесь, выложу перевод.