Quotations

英語の本を見ると、Chapter 単位、あるいは Part 単位で、 著者以外の人が発言した、面白い一言が引用されていることが多い。 この引用文、Quotations(引用文)と言う専用の呼び方があるぐらい、 一般的なものらしい。

私が読んだことのある本の中から、 幾つか面白そうなものをピックアップする事にした。 いつか使える日が来るといいなぁ。

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THYRA S. WINSLOW
(作家) 		Platonic love is love from the neck up.
プラトニックな愛とは、首より上の愛の事。
Eye up, actually.
BILL VAUGHAN
(米コラムニスト) 		A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
真の愛国者とは、駐車違反切符を切られて、 政府がちゃんと機能していることを喜ぶ人
A function test only test one function, not entire.
ALAN VALENTINE
(大学学長) 		Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
科学的な発見があると、 天使は最善の使い道を話し合い、 悪魔がその隙にそれを掻っ攫っていく
That's nature of democracy.
JOHN A. LINCOLN The Devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
悪魔は紳士である。 彼が招かれざる所に現われたことは無い。
Is there anywhere on earth where devil is not welcome?
EDGAR W HOWE
(ジャーナリスト) 		There never was a devil who didn't advise people to keep out of hell.
「地獄へ来るな」
と忠告しない悪魔はいない
But since people are so religious, they do what seems good for The GOD:
"Hell's entrance is wider, ladies and gentlemen"?!
John Barrymore
(俳優:トーキー最初の実験映画『ドン・ファン』主演) 		America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
アメリカというのは一生分のアスピリンを1ドルで買える。 ただし、2週間でそれを使い切ってしまうが。
So, you will know how long you can servive from amount of aspirin left.
Elbert Hubbard This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
まずチューインガムに費やす金額より 本に費やす金額の方が多くならないと、 この国が文明国になるのは無理だ。
We need revolution. The book we can chew.
Bill Vaughan America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
アメリカとは、民主主義のためならば海を渡って戦闘することも辞さないのに、 国政選挙のために通りを渡る事さえ嫌がる国。
Well, you have to be careful about car when you cross the street, for the ocean, you don't have to look for car.
Pierre de la Chaussee When everyone is in the wrong, everyone is in the right.
みんな間違っているなら、誰もその事をわからない
We call it SPECIFICATION.
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German Proverb
ドイツの諺 		An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
古くからの誤信は、新しい真実より、いつも人受けが良い。
"The code is fragile. It can't handle error correctly."
"We want thing that way!!!!"
H.G.Bohn Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
賢者は他人の過ちより学ぶ。バカは自分の過ちから学ぶ。
Also, fools forget what they learn, faster.
Thomas J. Watson
IBM CEO 		We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating.
ろくな意見を持たぬ世代の話を聞く。 高潔であるよりも保身を、 追求するよりも追従を、 そして創造するより模倣で済ます輩のことだ。
IBM privailed Linux. Too bad Watson, your empire have corrupted.
Niccolo Machiavelli It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
愛されるより、恐れられるほうが、はるかに安全である。
Fred Allen Committee : a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group, decide that nothing can be done.
委員会: 一人では何も出来ない人々の集まり。 集まって、誰も何もしてはならぬ、と決定する。
That's "most of the time". Sometimes, they make decision that people have to do what doing nothing is better.
Stewart Harrol Committee : A group of the unfit, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unneccessary.
委員会: 適任ではない者の集団で、 やりたくない人によって任命され、 やらなきゃいいようなことをする存在。
Usually, they are not approved from the rest of the world, too.
Henry W. Beecher Never forget what a man says to you, when he's angry.
人が怒ったときに、あなたに言った言葉を忘れてはならない。
And that's what we call history.
Wilfred LAURIER
(カナダ首相) 		The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.
イギリス人は他人の意見を尊重するが、気持ちを考えることは無い。
Since I'm gentlemen, I won't contradict to this opinion :p.
George SANTAYANA England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
イギリスとは、 個性と、奇癖と、異端と、異常と、道楽と、ユーモアにとっての楽園。
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Edgar W. HOWE When I say "everybody says so," I mean I say so.
私の言う「みんなが言っている」とは『私が』言っているという事。
And when I say "I say so", it means everybody will say so.
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Robert PEEL Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
世論とは 愚考と、弱さ、偏見と誤解、正解、頑迷、 そして新聞の受け売りの混合物である。
That's what democracy is made of.
... uh, except right feeling, i mean.
James BRYCE Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
医者: 自らの存在理由を打ち壊すために働き続ける唯一の職業。
..Right. AI researcher is not profession.
Groucho MARX She got her good looks from her father---
he's a plastic surgeon.
彼女は、そのきれいな顔を父親からもらったんだ…
オヤジさんが整形外科医なもんでね。
Marvin KITMAN The pen is mightier than the sword! The case for prescriptions rather than surgery.
ペンは剣より強し! 手術よりは処方箋の方がよかったってことさ。
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L. Grant GLICKMAN Behind every great man is a woman with nothing to wear.
偉大な男の影に、無衣の女あり。
Women, you mean.
Donn PIATT That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
その男のすごい所は、自分の仕事を解決するのに他人の頭を使えるって点だ。
Oh how lucky! My brain is too fast to distribute any jobs.
Laurence J. PETER Heredity is what set the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
遺伝とは、ティーンエイジャーの両親が互いに対して疑惑を抱かせるもの。
And what teenager sets despair about his/her future.
Abraham LINCOLN I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
私は祖父がどんな人物だったか知らない。 その孫がどんな人物になるかの方がよほど興味がある。
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Vine DELORIA Jr. When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
人類学者に、白人が来る前は 「あめりか」の事を何と呼んでいたのか? と聞かれたインディアンは、こう答えた:
「オレラんとこ」
And when anthoropologist asked white man what did they call America before it was named "America", he replied; "Mine."
Sioux Proverb Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.
隣の奴を評価する前に、そいつのモカシンを履いて1マイル歩かせてくれ。
"Sure, I have spair." that neighbor replied.
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Mark TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
真実が靴を履く間に、嘘が世界を半周する。
Bad code travel between Mars, while good code opens it's bracket.
Winston CHURCHILL There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
世に嘘の種は尽きないが、最悪なのはその半分が実は真実だ、という事だ。
How to find out lies: If you wish it wasn't true, it's true.
Douglas MALLOCH The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
この世で一番のうそつきの名前は『They Say』。
The next, "It Works."
Quintilian A liar needs a good memory.
記憶力が良くないと、嘘つきになれない
Linux need a lots of good memory.
Olin MILLER A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feeling.
女に嘘をつかない男は、思いやりが無い奴だ。
Richard M. NIXON I have nothing to hide. The White House has nothing to hide.
私に秘密なんか無い。ホワイトハウスに隠し事など一切無い。
We have secret, that we have nothing we could make it secret. (Researcher)
William H. RANKIN Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say,
"There certainly is a beautiful earth out tonight."
いつの日か月に立って、25万マイル彼方を見ながら
『あぁ、今夜の地球は実に美しい』
と言ってみたいもんだ。
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Neil A. ARMSTRONG That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
一人の人間にとっては小さな一歩だが、人類にとっては大きな一歩である。
We usually make giant step for man, no leap for mankind.
W. I. E. GATES What if Columbus had been told,
"Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our No.1 Priorities ... war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred ... and Queen Isabella's own brand of 'internal security.'"
『なぁクリス、今はやめておけ。 まずは最優先課題があるだろう? 戦争に気が、貧困に犯罪、環境汚染と病気、 文盲に人種差別…あぁ、あとイザベラ女王お得意の「国内治安」。 これらを全部解決してからにするべきだよ。』 コロンブスがこんな風に言われてたら、今頃どうだったと思う?
Peace. What else?
James M. Whistler I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
天才が遺伝性のものか、私にはわからん。 神は私に子供を授けてくださらなかったからな。
So you didn't make good enough look at your parent?!
John BARRYMORE One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit on the audience and watch me.
私の舞台人生最大の無念は、客席から私の芝居を見ることが出来なかったことさ。
That's why you could stay at work long enough.
Oscar WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
自分に惚れること。終生のロマンスの始まりである。
Also, your final romance.
Francois De La ROCHEFOUCAULD We often forgive those who bore us; we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
我々は、うんざりさせられるような奴は許せるが、 我々にうんざりする奴は許せない。
we hate waste of ... our ... time.
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William J. BRYAN Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
運命は偶然の問題ではない、選択の問題だ。 それは待つべきものではない、勝ち得るものだ。
If we choose right thing, we won't call it Destiny. If we choose wrong thing, that's Destiny.
Thomas FULLER He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
縛り首になる運命の男は、溺死することは無い。
OS which freeze, will not panic.
Will ROGERS We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
皆が英雄になれるわけではない。 縁石に座って拍手を送る係りだって必要なんだ。
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Beilby PORTEUS One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
一人を殺すと悪者だが、五万と殺せば英雄だ。
Did you know that killing millions is far harder than killing one?
Ralph RICHARDSON The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
演技の秘訣とは、観客に咳をさせない事だ。
Keep theatre clean. Five cents please.
Rhetta HUGHES There are two kinds of directors in the theatre. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.
この世には2種類の舞台演出家がいる。 自分を神だと思っている奴と、自分が神だと確信している奴だ。
Too bad. There are only one kind of programmer, those who generates code as bad as God. The problem is, God does not seems to notify the fact.
Francoise SAGAN I like men to behave like men --- strong and childish.
男には男らしく振舞って欲しいわね…強くて餓鬼っぽいのがいいわ。
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William HAZLITT Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
しっかり歩み、じっくり語り、たっぷり飲んで、ぐっすり眠れ
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William A WARD The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
普通の教師は語る。 良い教師は説明する。 優れた教師はやってみせる。 そして偉大の教師は思いつかせるのだ。
Therefore, you'll never know who is great teacher.
James H. BOREN Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
ほとんどの教師は、沈みゆく船の上でも航海術の講釈を垂れ続ける。
Most of programmers add feature while code is going down.
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Bernard SHAW Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
できる人間は行動する。できない人間は教える。
Those who can't write good code, do; those who can, won't.
David REUBEN In secxual intercourse it's quality not quantity that counts.
セックスにおいて重要なのは、量ではなく質である。
Tell that to teenager.
"Bill of Rights" in the United States Consititution Congress shall make no law respecting an estabilishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Ammm... Where is the right not making speach to public? Do I have to face the fact that U.S. law, except for the one declared when you are captured as criminal, will never allow you to dismiss the speach?
Anonymous The brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up and speak in public.
脳というものは、あなたが生まれた瞬間から動き出し、 決して停止することはないのだ… 公衆の面前で公演をする羽目に陥るまでは…。
The day you make speech, is the day you die.
Unfortunately, since world does not have heaven nor God, you have to keep on re-born again, and die again.
Be buddist. He show you the way to get away from reincurnation.
Agatha Christie An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
考古学者は女性にとって最高の夫です。 なにしろ年をとるほど興味をもってくれるんですから。
He might not be interested in you, for you are too young.
Irving BERLIN Listen, kid, take my advice, never hate a song that had sold a half-million copies!
いいか、こんガキャ、これだけは覚えておけ。 50万枚売れた曲はバカにしちゃいけねぇよ。
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Franklin P. JONES Men seldom make passes at a girl who surpasses.
男は、上手を行く女にはめったに手を出さないもんだ。
Unless girl is surpasses enough.
Marilyn MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
男が支配している世界だろうと気にしないわ。あたしが女でいられさえするならね。
Women rules the man's world. Women rules the women's world...
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