Phrases, statements of famous and famous people. Quotes of famous people

If I saw Brad Pitt, I would act like an idiot too!
- Good men are taken apart as puppies
- Married does not mean dead!
- Your legs have already run out, and the dress has not yet begun!
- I thought it was an orgasm, but it turned out to be asthma
- ... and the prince is combing the tail of a white horse somewhere and is not in a hurry to see you ...
- Oh, and shook you on other people's beds!
- So you're a doctor? What didn't you say right away? I wouldn't pressure you. I thought you were stupid!
- What kind of wife do you want? Well, buy an inflatable!

  • 13 November 2012, 00:51


Do not panic. This is the worst. If you don't panic, there is always a way out.
Stas Karpov

Don't worry, it's not a full moon today - I won't rip off my skin.
Stas Karpov

Correctly! Throw away the cigarette before it ruins your life!
Stas Karpov

Wow! - Not worth it. I've been there, no good.
Stas Karpov

Hear! Rich in smoke?
- Hear one more thing - I'll rip your throat out.
- Well, I'm sorry - beguiled.
Stas Karpov

No need to scatter epithets!
Stas Karpov

Why are we in such trouble?
- For what, for nothing - this does not change the weather. It's raining - go under the roof, don't ask questions.
Stas Karpov

I have no friends, but there are a lot of enemies, if I start listing them, I'm afraid you won't have enough paper.
Stas Karpov

In reality, they say that there is always a choice. You can try to put the word "Eternity" out of the ice floes, or you can stupidly finish off the snow queen.
Stas Karpov

Everyone hates corruption. And she helps to build and live.
Stas Karpov

Falling those who should fall
Stas Karpov

I thought that you would really finish them both there.
- And maybe it was worth it, only we are not judges. And about who we are, I would generally be silent.
Stas Karpov

You know, investigators try to treat the dead more like a piece of meat. Because if you recreate the image of a real person, you will see a lot of good in him, as he was loved. You can start to avenge him.
Stas Karpov

There were almost 700 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. How not to overtake the commandant ...
Stas Karpov

I won't give you problems. Under no schedule. I give you my word.
- My life is a continuous problem ... And who said that I would be against another one if it's because of you?
Stas Karpov

I'm just an ambassador, and ambassadors don't get killed....
- There are no ambassadors, but donkeys... and only a donkey can threaten me. Not because I'm some kind of cool there, but because I don't care... I don't care if we live or die... or I die and everyone stays... or everyone dies except me...
Stas Karpov

Tell her the truth. It is better to decide once and do something than to be afraid all your life and do nothing.
Stas Karpov

Forgiving people is very risky. Nobody wants to wake up with a hole in their forehead.
Stas Karpov

A fool is not an external experience, but your sense of self. You, Bor, are a fool as long as you feel like one.
Stas Karpov

Good afternoon, Stanislav Mikhailovich, how are you?
What is today, Tuesday? Well, it's Tuesday.
Stas Karpov

And we look good: one psycho, the second invalid.
- Exactly. Parade of freaks.
Stas Karpov

I'm not being rude to people, they're just offended by the facts.
Stas Karpov

Devil you say? Before that, you still have to live. The devil - he is far away, and I am close. And I'm much worse.
Stas Karpov

It is better to earn good money than to die on the detention of a gang.
Stas Karpov

In this world, Antoshin, loners do not survive.
Stas Karpov

I know hundreds of ways to make money here, but believe me: I'm not for sale.
Stas Karpov

Our correctional system is only called correctional. But in fact, she didn’t - I’m convinced - didn’t fix ANYONE.
Stas Karpov

Violence is not loose caramels. You won't sleep at all.
Stas Karpov

In life there is only one way to solve all problems, just not everyone recognizes it. Violence…
Stas Karpov

It's best not to get close to people.
- Why?
- Do not feel the pain of loss!
Stas Karpov

Stas, you gave him your word
- The word given to the dog can not be kept ...
Stas Karpov

Only morality and humanity have boundaries. Inhumanity and immorality do not have them.
Stas Karpov

The walls of the police department are full of myths that never existed!
Stas Karpov

Do you know who you remind me of? A thin girl who leads a huge fighting dog on a leash - if something happens, the dog will tear her to shreds.
Stas Karpov

This is my land and my air. I want to change it.
Stas Karpov

I have a system, not people.
Stas Karpov

Only fools get behind the wheel drunk.
- Yes, half my life ...
- So, a half-life fool.
Stas Karpov

Well, what does Stasik have to do with it?
- And now Stasik is responsible for him, he takes him and drags him to the interrogation room, and does everything so that this miracle spends all the holidays here!
- Stasik can make it so that he will spend 10 years in custody!
Stas Karpov

Tarasov, do you have an axe?
- There is no axe.
- Did you drink any?
- Well, where did I drink from?
- And how do you scare the suspects?
Stas Karpov

If something happens to Antoshin tomorrow, and my guys find out that I could have protected him and didn’t, then the day after tomorrow no one will cover my back. And they will be right.
Stas Karpov

If you hold someone, then you need to hold on so that next time you break your back. And I see that you did not calculate the forces.
Stas Karpov

Poet, right?
- A Christmas tree poet.
- Do you know such a rhyme: “I am sitting behind bars in a dungeon, a young ghoul who has cut down all the Christmas trees”?
Stas Karpov

Fools always have no one to blame.
Stas Karpov

People you can count on are the most important thing.
- Do you trust me?
- What about trust? I said "reckon", and trust is already a luxury.
Stas Karpov

And you have nothing here, cleanly. Got a girlfriend or something, Karpov?
- No, I'm cleaning myself. But you can if you want. True, I don’t offer the role of a girlfriend, but my floors are as much as you like.
Stas Karpov

It's nice that now you are turning to patients "on you". It turns out that politeness is also a matter of money.
Stas Karpov

If all people would forgive, everything would remain unpunished - chaos would begin!
Stas Karpov

Are not you afraid?
- Not. Living is worse than dying.
Stas Karpov

I thought Karpov was not afraid of anything.
- Can you explain the difference between fear, rationality and stupidity?
Stas Karpov

The hedgehogs cried, but continued to eat the cactus.
Stas Karpov

Fight… You are a good person. Do not go where the sign "Caution, will kill" hangs. Even I am afraid to look there.
- Don't you think it's time to change it to something more neutral? For example, "Beware of raccoons."
Stas Karpov

You will be guarded like the President of the United States.
How is Kennedy? No, Stas, let's better like ours.
Stas Karpov

I do not want to live and be constantly afraid that someone will close me!
- Do not want to constantly be afraid that you will be closed? Go to the deputies.
Stas Karpov

  • 19 November 2012, 20:43

You call yourself free. Free from what, or free for what?

You start by unlearning how to love others, and you end up finding nothing worth loving in yourself anymore.

The age of arrogance. Between 26 and 30 years is a wonderful time in life, when a person is angry with fate because he is so much and seems so small.

There is no beautiful surface without terrible depth.

We grow cold towards what we have learned as soon as we share it with others.

In Germany, desire is much more honored than skill: this is the most suitable region for imperfect and pretentious people.

Don't let yourself be fooled! The most active peoples bear within themselves the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness, they do not have sufficient content to wait and be lazy.

If Europe soon gave birth to a great statesman, and he who today, in the petty era of plebeian myopia, is honored as a great realist, let him enjoy petty authority.

These constitutional monarchs were handed the virtue: since then they can no longer act unjustly - but for this they were deprived of power.

Another becomes great only after death - through an echo.

Now it is only an echo through which events acquire greatness: the echo of the newspapers.

Dühring, the skygazer, is looking everywhere for corruption, but I feel another danger of the era: great mediocrity - there has never been such an amount of honesty and good manners.

The era of the greatest accomplishments will, in spite of everything, be the era of the most insignificant influences, if people are rubbery and too elastic.

It's not what he does and plots against me during the day that worries me, but the fact that I pop up in his dreams at night terrifies me.

Knowing something in a person, we at the same time kindle it in him, and whoever knows only the base qualities of a person has the power to stimulate them and allows them to be discharged. The passions of your neighbors, directed against you, are a criticism of your knowledge, according to the level of its height and baseness.

Out of your anger towards some person you concoct moral indignation for yourself - and admire yourself afterwards: and out of satiety with hatred - forgiveness - and again you admire yourself.

An outstanding person learns in misfortune how insignificant all the dignity and decency of people who condemn him. They burst when their vanity is insulted - an unbearable, limited beast appears to the eye.

The burgher and knightly virtues do not understand each other and vilify each other.

Whoever treats people honestly is still stingy with his politeness.

He who is poor in love is stingy even with his politeness.

The fact that we like a certain person, we willingly count it in favor of him and our own morality.

The familiarity of a person superior to us embitters, since we cannot pay him with the same coin. On the contrary, he should be advised to be polite, that is, to constantly pretend that he respects something.

The dog pays for a good location with humility. At the same time, the cat enjoys itself and experiences a voluptuous feeling of strength: it gives nothing back.

When a hundred people stand next to each other, everyone loses their mind and gets some other one.

  • 19 November 2012, 18:33

After all, he was a most intelligent and gifted man, a man, so to speak, even of science, although, by the way, in science ... well, in a word, he did not do much in science, and, it seems, nothing at all. But with people of science in Russia, this happens all the time.

There is no idea, no fact that cannot be vulgarized and presented in a ridiculous way.

And invariably still continues: they found a case and squeal with delight. To squeal and lie with delight is the very first thing we do; You look, two years later, and we disperse apart, hanging our noses.

Beauty will save the world.

The whole second half of human life is usually made up of nothing but habits accumulated in the first half.

The real truth is always implausible... In order to make the truth more believable, one must certainly mix lies with it. People have always done this.

If there is no God, then what kind of captain am I after that?

Mystical ideas love persecution, they are created by it.

In abstract love for humanity one almost always loves oneself.

Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind.

Only those who have no wit speak the truth.

Man does not know his nature.

You can't love what you don't know!

To act smart, one mind is not enough.

Humanity is only a habit, a fruit of civilization. She may disappear completely.

Falling in love does not mean loving: you can fall in love and hate.

To love each other, you need to fight with yourself.

You didn't eat the idea, but the idea ate you.

Man, in addition to happiness, just as exactly and completely in the same amount, needs misfortune!

If you are heading towards the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.

  • 19 November 2012, 21:11

Even unsubstantiated slander leaves almost eternal traces.

A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it,
Good fellows lesson.

And happiness was so possible
So close!

The habit from above is given to us:
She is a substitute for happiness.

Half my lord, half merchant
Half wise, half ignorant,
Semi-scoundrel, but there is hope
What will be complete at last.

Love is ashamed, thoughts are driven,
Trade their will
Heads bow before idols
And they ask for money and chains!


Resentment, swallowed in large quantities, is sure to cause an upset of feelings. - Venedikt Nemov.

Celebrities spend their whole lives trying to be recognizable, and then they wear dark glasses to blend in with the crowd.

You can’t often brainwash - the convolutions are erased. - Sergey Fedin.

There are no more obnoxious people than celebrities from the provinces. - A. Chekhov.

A man who can tame his own heart can also conquer the world. - Paulo Coelho.

Chicken brains can only compensate for the lion heart.

A person who does not sew with a bast puts any in a line for those who do not knit with a bast. - Sergey Fedin.

Fame is a payment for merit and work, as well as a punishment for abilities and talent. — Nicolas Chamfort.

Freud is never mentioned in the house and in the presence of lunatics. - Sergey Fedin.

It's hard to come up with something more disgusting than most. - Goethe.

Sometimes even those who do not deserve it are famous. - G. Lessing.

Read the continuation of the best aphorisms and quotes on the pages:

Laziness seems to slow down time and space. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Religions, like chameleons, take on the color of the soil on which they live. Anatole France (Thibault)

Art is a mystery! Edvard Grieg

Cynicism is heroic idealism turned inside out. Aldous Leonard Huxley

Dear ladies, if your friend advises you to go out, enjoy life, pursue a career, and not think about the feelings of a male? So, she wishes you a happy loneliness in middle and old age. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Misfortune makes a person wiser, although it does not enrich him. Samuel Johnson

Variety kills variety. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

A righteous wife is the wealth of the house and the salvation of her husband. Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregory the Theologian)

Modesty adorns. But somehow modestly. Sergey Fedin

The basic virtue of a citizen is mistrust. Maximilian Robespierre

From perjury to fiction - one step. Don Aminado (Aminad Petrovich Shpolyansky)

There is no envy in the world, since all people stand on the same row, on the same rung of the ladder of happiness. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Retirement: Rest forced upon you when all you can do is work. Georges Elgosy

By improving the stagecoach, you can create a perfect stagecoach; but a first-class car - hardly. Edward De Bono

You can't hit the same leg twice. Sergei Ostashko

Eloquence has, like the fair sex, such significant charms that it does not tolerate attacks on itself. And it would be useless to scold the art of deception when people enjoy this kind of deception. John Locke

Did you get everything you need from happiness? Then pass the joint on. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Sloth is the destructive fire of dreams. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Life without sin is so dull that you will inevitably fall into the sin of despondency. Sergey Fedin

Aphorism is a mania of thought brought back to life by the magic of words. Evgeny Khankin

These are the times, continuous executions for the Soul, and now there are such a great number that it is incomprehensible to the mind, but THIS IS a daily reality .. Vladimir Solonin

Above all, learn to restrain your tongue. Menander

To speak is not to do. Unknown author

For me, as Antoninus, the city and fatherland are Rome, as a person, the world. And only what is useful to these two cities is good for me. Marcus Aurelius

All that we see is only one appearance. Far from the surface of the world to the bottom. Consider the obvious in the world to be insignificant, For the secret essence of things is not visible. Omar Khayyam

He did not change his views - on the contrary, his views changed him. Wiesław Brudzinski

Representatives of the upper class of society, press on the middle and lower class of society, like grapes. They make from our suffering, a delicious wine that belongs only to them. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

The destroyed ecology of the earth is the coffin of mankind. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Everything has some limit, but not sorrow, she does not know sleep, does not know death; the day does not illuminate it, the night is its depth, its living memory. Maurice Blanchot

Folk songs are when there are more people on the stage than in the hall. Unknown author

Hatred, the only emotion that wants to take your throne, and make your coffin a footstool. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

An optimist is a pessimist not beaten enough. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Our mind is the metal extracted from the form, and the form is our actions. Henri Bergson

Envy builds the entire human race, under one straight line, which is called: insignificance. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Do flies bite you? They scurry, probably. Sergey Fedin

In fact, after death, everyone ends up in the same place. It's just that optimists consider it heaven, and pessimists consider it hell. Sergey Fedin

Homosexuals, lesbians, sexists, feminists, Nazis, and fascists are evil pretending to be good. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Law is the art of goodness and justice. Unknown author

Even in the most terrible, there is something funny. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

We are paying for the mistakes of our ancestors, so it is only fair that they leave us money for this. Don Marquis

Good intentions are thoughts unspoiled by deeds. Evgeny Khankin

Put on brass knuckles of nobility, destroy evil. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Only very few areas of scientific research are in a phase of such intensive development as modern mathematics. Alfred Tarski

Was an atheist by the grace of God however. Sergey Fedin

The speech will become a little clearer when you have a brick in your hands. Sergey Fedin

No amount of wealth will make you richer. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

There is nothing worse than growing old alone. My wife hasn't celebrated her birthday in seven years. Robert Orben

Russia is a very strange copy of America, and Kazakhstan is a very, very strange copy of Russia and America. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Marriage for some becomes a life sentence. Sergey Fedin

Only evil people are afraid of evil. Walter Scott

Silence - believe in yourself. Albert Camus

Those who went through the war are very sincerely happy about its completion, but in their work they cannot go beyond the military theme. Frantisek Lid

You have to live with hopes, and cohabit with losses! Michel Emelyanov

Homosexuals, lesbians, sexists, feminists, Nazis, and fascists are the dregs of society who beat the human race to death. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Envy is a talented musician who performs great compositions on the thin strings of your proud ego. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

There is a group of people who were born on earth just to talk about death. There is a peculiar beauty in the slow fading, like the beauty of the sky at sunset, and this fascinates them. Rabindranath Tagore

An irritable tribe of poets. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

You can envy only those who do not want anything. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Where there was the most so-called positive religion, there was always the least morality. Johann Gottfried Zeime

Greed and envy, throwing meaningless objects at people, and laughing loudly at people who mercilessly torment and kill each other out of some stupid things. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

During the war, in the world of people, a huge number of legal crimes occur. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

The one who has nothing to hide is the best at hiding his talent. Edmund Burke (Burk)

Shit in this world: evolves and multiplies. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Laziness is insomnia Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Beer comes out faster than water because the water still needs to change color ... Unknown

People are like plants that do not grow well if they are not well cared for. Charles Louis Montesquieu

All global problems are born because of a small whim, in small minds. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

We admire antiquity, but live in modernity. Ovid (Publius Ovid Nason)

Whoever asks nothing will learn nothing. Thomas Fuller

Covetousness makes a person the same miracles as love. Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin

The figure eight is a zero with a waist. Sergey Fedin

Lived in laziness! Live in laziness! I will live in laziness! Sergey Fedin

Homosexuals, sexists, feminists, Nazis, and fascists are the dregs of society who beat the human race to death. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

A rare bird will reach the middle of the Dnieper, especially if it flies along it… Sergey Fedin

People live in the nature they deserve. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

We die exactly as much as we cease to be needed by the world. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Nazis and racists want to destroy immigration in the world, they only want their homeland to die slowly and painfully, in the most terrible pangs of independence. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Like people, evil, angry defilers, wandering in the empty darkness of their own consciousness. Their souls are blacker than any ink. An inhuman growl is called their soul voice. Restless and inconsolable creatures, rapidly leaving for the infinitely deep sphere of their own non-existence. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Despondency is a web that completely immobilizes the body. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

The era is overtaken on the left lane. Leszek Kumor

The play and the role for the actor are only text. From the text to the game - the distance is enormous. Gustav Gustavovich Shpet

Some individual considerations strike us to the very heart. Wilhelm Dilthey

If you don't make it, others will. Robinson A. William

Loneliness is the true road to heaven. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Homosexuality is a terrible mutation in the natural world. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Gluttony, mercilessly drowns in an insatiable thirst for poison. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

The crown of the elderly is the sons of sons. Bible, King Solomon

Humanity is drowning in its own shit. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

It often seems to people that the greater truth lies next to the greater trouble. Karol Izhikovsky

If the accused confessed, no judge is needed. Unknown author

Reading the ancient sages, you often find something of your own. Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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"Intelligence and character are the aims of true education." - M.L. king

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"The root of the doctrine is bitter, but its fruits are sweet." Aristotle

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"If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything. Put a record on." Pierre Brive

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In all our world, there is nothing more beautiful than the happy face of a child. Baum Lyman Frank

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Fashion goes out of fashion, but style never! Coco Chanel

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There is no empty space around. Khlebnikov Velimir

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The site is a great thing! This is the meeting place of me and the state. Khlebnikov Velimir

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With hunger, cold and insomnia, no friendship is made. Shalamov Varlam Tikhonovich

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A person cannot have any other goal than to be a real person. Schaefer Leopold

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In order for us (in Russia) to get sick, you need to have horse health. Izmailov Lyon

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I set fire to the Spanish king's beard. Drake Francis

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If it were my power, I would cut out the tongue of anyone who claims that a person is incorrigible. Kunanbaev Abay

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The most beautiful thoughts fade after passing through human lips. Kunanbaev Abay

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Directing is not a craft, it is a personal principle, a worldview, it is impossible to teach this. Balayan Roman Gurgenovich

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You always thought about people, and they will repay you the same. Gaidar Arkady Petrovich

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The future is known to cast its shadow long before it enters. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna

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How forgetful life is, how memorable death is. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna

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With great bluntness, she asked for a compliment. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna

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Everyone respected me at the institute. I was a star, an idol... Brumel Valery Nikolaevich

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The one who makes a discovery sees what everyone sees and thinks what no one thinks. St. György Albert

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Singing is an excess of health. Kozlovsky Ivan Semenovich Phrases, sayings of famous and famous people

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Each person has exactly as much vanity as he lacks intelligence. Pope Alexander

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Sometimes it seems that people only do what they are looking for, for whom they would give their lives. Bashevis Singer Isaac

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Every person has someone inside who annoys him. Bashevis Singer Isaac

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Justice is a word full of the thrill of life. Barbus Henri

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There are dramas, horrors - yes, but we live in the name of the beautiful ... Zaitsev Boris Konstantinovich

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A man is not old until regret has taken the place of dreams. Barrymore John

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Order frees thought. Korolev Sergey Pavlovich

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The source of our faith and hope is truth. Barbus Henri

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Only he is honest before the time that knows how to be honest with himself. Rylenkov Nikolay Ivanovich

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Nationalism is a childhood disease. This is the measles of humanity. Einstein Albert

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Do not reason with children, with women, and with the people. Pythagoras of Samos

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Will is purposefulness combined with right judgment. Plato

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Opportunity lurks in the midst of hardships and problems. Einstein Albert

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Blessed is life as long as you live without thoughts. Sophocles

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My God, how life slipped by, I never even heard the nightingales sing. Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

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Yes, no matter how dear life is to us, one thing is even more precious: the consciousness of being right. Euripides

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If you value your life, remember that others value theirs just as much. Euripides

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The life of people who do not think about anything is the most pleasant. Sophocles

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Life is a long jump from p...zdy to the grave. Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

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My life is falling apart, but no one sees this, because I am a well-mannered person: I smile all the time. Begbeder Frederick

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She is like a fight with women that ends in bed. Kafka Franz

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My life is terribly sad. And you want me to stick a lilac bush in my ass and do a striptease in front of you. Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

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Strive not to succeed, but to make your life meaningful. Einstein Albert

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Human life is like a box of matches. Taking her seriously is ridiculous. Being careless is dangerous. Akutagawa Ryunosuke

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Mortiu non mordent. The dead don't bite.

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  • What unites the wise man, the weak-minded and the lovers? They all need very little to be happy.
  • A sense of responsibility is not the best sleeping pill.
  • Hypocrisy - when you say that you buy liver sausage for the dog, and at the same time you lick your lips.
  • Talent is like an orgasm: hard to hide, even harder to fake.
  • Some people claim to have made their way to the top when in fact they just surfaced there.
  • Once I was young and handsome, now I am only handsome.
  • Bad habits are nonsense, it would be health ...
  • Yawning at the top of his mouth, a man shows his lack of culture, a woman demonstrates her capabilities.
  • The only doctor who thinks that everything is in order with you works in the military registration and enlistment office.
  • Better a terrible end than horror without end.
  • Well, not just where we are not, but where we have never been!
  • Life is short, be patient...
  • The probability of winning big in the lottery is always the same and does not depend on whether you bought a lottery ticket or not.
  • It is not enough to know one's own worth - one must also be in demand.
  • Love for mother-in-law is measured in kilometers.
  • We are not afraid of work, we do not run away from work, there is work - we go to bed, if there is no work - we also sleep.
  • It’s good to throw money down the drain when it blows in your direction.
  • One head is good, but the whole body is better.
  • It is better to receive from life not the joys of stingy telegrams, but the generosity of large transfers.
  • Better extradition than exhumation.
  • Our town is small, a decent girl, except to get married, and there is nowhere to go!
  • The more the tongue is braided, the easier it is to untie.
  • The meaning of life, as well as the meaning of an anecdote - if you do not feel humor in them, then you see one complete misunderstanding.
  • And the wolves are full, and the sheep are safe, and the shepherd has eternal memory.
  • When time is short, there is no time for friendship - only love.
  • Starting a new business, you must be prepared even for the fact that you will succeed.
  • Who seeks, he will always take!
  • There are situations in which to survive is the most decent thing to do.
  • If guests are treated like family members, they don't stay long.
  • It was good until it got bad.
  • Love is not just for you, you have to deal with it.
  • Only a genius can turn the essentials into a distant dream.
  • From the statement: "I ask, in addition to the allowance for harm, I also ask you to pay extra for greed and obstinacy."
  • Yesterday I suppressed all my sexual desires, so much so that only a wet spot remained.
  • Life is made up of little things. And it's the little things that don't add up.
  • The new year has passed, but the sediment remains ...
  • Of all eternal things, love lasts the shortest.
  • My life is like a memory.
  • Milk is doubly funnier if after cucumbers.
  • Happiness is when you are understood. Misfortune - when you got to the core.
  • Show me a man who doesn't have any problems and I'll find a brain injury scar.
  • Money is not evil; evil does not end so quickly.
  • The husband's face is the wife's fur coat, and the wife's face is the husband's socks.
  • A drunk professional is better than a sober idiot.
  • There is less and less of what cannot be bought in the world, and more and more of what cannot be sold.
  • Friends are people who know us well, but still love us.
  • You can't be funny, sober and smart at the same time.
  • You can't give everything to everyone. Because there are many, and only few.
  • The chief is not an ignoramus, the chief prefers creative practice to fruitless theory.
  • If I understood all the jokes, I would have died of laughter long ago.
  • He has already grown out of diapers, but the smell remains.
  • Real chaos is when all dreams come true for everyone at the same time.
  • The shame of a gypsy family is working parents and children who do not know how to beg.
  • It may seem like I'm doing nothing, but on a cellular level, I'm very busy!
  • If he calls, then he likes to call.
  • My conscience is so clear and transparent that it is almost invisible.
  • The left is a well inverted right.
  • Ideas take possession of the masses in a perverted way, as a rule.
  • An egoist is a person who thinks only of himself and does not think of me at all.
  • Principles arise where logic fails.
  • Sex is a matter of taste. For one it's bad, for two it's good...
  • If from year to year they tell you that you have changed for the better, you will inevitably think about who you were originally.
  • Each thought to the extent of his licentiousness, but all thought the same thing.
  • First you look for justice, and then another job.
  • Human stupidity gives an idea of ​​infinity.
  • It's hard to argue with a naked woman.
  • The people are not a luxury - but a means of enrichment. Government.
  • It is better to keep quiet and seem like a fool than to open your mouth and completely dispel doubts.
  • Say goodbye to your enemies - it will puzzle them.
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Top most famous catchphrases

    And who are the judges?
    Quote from A. S. Griboedov's comedy "Woe from Wit" (1824), d.2, yavl.5, Chatsky's words:
    And who are the judges? - For the antiquity of years
    To a free life their enmity is irreconcilable,
    Judgments draw from forgotten newspapers
    Ochakov times and the conquest of the Crimea.

    Balzac age
    The expression arose after the publication of the novel by the French writer Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "The Thirty-Year-Old Woman" (1831); used as a characteristic of women aged 30-40 years.

    No rudder and no sails
    Quote from M. Yu. Lermnotov's poem "Demon" (1842), part 1:
    On the ocean of air
    No rudder and no sails
    Quietly floating in the fog -
    Choirs of slender luminaries.

    White crow
    This expression, as a designation of a rare person, sharply different from the rest, is given in the 7th satire of the Roman poet Juvenal (mid-1st century - after 127 AD):
    Fate gives kingdoms to slaves, delivers triumphs to captives.
    However, such a lucky man is less likely to be a white crow.

    Borzoi puppies to take
    Originated from a comedy by N.V. Gogol "The Inspector General", d.1, yavl.1, the words of Lyapin-Tyapkin: "Sins are different. I tell everyone openly that I take bribes, but why bribes? Greyhound puppies. This is a completely different matter."

    Throw a stone
    The expression "to throw a stone" at someone in the sense of "accusing" arose from the Gospel (John, 8, 7); Jesus told the scribes and Pharisees, who, tempting him, brought to him a woman convicted of adultery: "He that is without sin among you, first cast a stone at her" (in ancient Judea there was a penalty - to stone).

    Paper endures everything (Paper does not blush)
    The expression goes back to the Roman writer and orator Cicero (106 - 43 BC); in his letters "To friends" there is an expression: "Epistola non erubescit" - "The letter does not blush", that is, in writing you can express such thoughts that are embarrassed to express orally.

    To be or not to be - that is the question
    The beginning of Hamlet's monologue in Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, translated by N.A. Field (1837).

    You can’t harness a horse and a quivering doe into one cart
    Quote from the poem by A.S. Pushkin "Poltava" (1829).

    Great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language
    Quote from a poem in prose by I.S. Turgenev "Russian language" (1882).

    Back to our sheep
    With these words, in the farce "Lawyer Pierre Patlen" (c. 1470), the first of a cycle of anonymous farces about the lawyer Patlen, the judge interrupts the speech of a rich clothier. Having initiated a case against the shepherd who stole the sheep from him, the clothier, forgetting about his lawsuit, showers reproaches on the shepherd's defender, Patlen's lawyer, who did not pay him for six cubits of cloth.

    Wolf in sheep's clothing
    The expression originated from the Gospel: "Take care of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are ravenous wolves."

    In borrowed plumes
    It arose from the fable of I.A. Krylov "Crow" (1825).

    Time is money
    Aphorism from the work of the American scientist and politician Franklin (1706-1790) "Advice to a young merchant" (1748).

    I carry everything with me
    The expression originated from ancient Greek tradition. When the Persian king Cyrus occupied the city of Priene in Ionia, the inhabitants left it, taking with them the most valuable of their property. Only Biant, one of the "seven wise men", a native of Priene, left empty-handed. In response to the bewildered questions of his fellow citizens, he answered, referring to spiritual values: "I carry everything that is mine with me." This expression is often used in Cicero's Latin formulation: Omnia mea mecum porto.

    Everything flows, everything changes
    This expression, which defines the constant variability of all things, expounds the essence of the teachings of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 530-470 BC)

    Was it a boy?
    In one of the episodes of M. Gorky's novel "The Life of Klim Samgin" tells about the boy Klim skating with other children. Boris Varavka and Varya Somova fall into a hole. Klim gives Boris the end of his gymnasium belt, but, feeling that he is being pulled into the water, he releases the belt from his hands. Children are drowning. When the search for the drowned begins, Klima is struck by "someone's serious incredulous question: - Was there a boy, maybe there wasn't a boy." The last phrase has become winged as a figurative expression of extreme doubt about anything.

    twenty two misfortunes
    So in the play by A.P. Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard" (1903) they call the clerk Epikhodov, with whom some kind of comic trouble happens every day. The expression is applied to people with whom some kind of misfortune constantly happens.

    Twenty-three years and nothing done for immortality
    The words of Don Carlos from the drama by F. Schiller "Don Carlos, Infante of Spain" (1782), d.2, yavl. 2.

    Two-faced Janus
    In Roman mythology, Janus - the god of time, as well as every beginning and end, entrances and exits (janua - door) - was depicted with two faces facing in opposite directions: young - forward, into the future, old - back, into the past. The expression "two-faced Janus" or simply "Janus", which arose from here, means: a two-faced person.

    The work of helping the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves
    In the novel by I. Ilf and E. Petrov "The Twelve Chairs" (1927), in chapter 34, a poster with such a slogan is mentioned, posted in the club at the evening of the Water Rescue Society.

    Money doesn't smell
    The expression arose from the words of the Roman emperor (69 - 79 AD) Vespasian, said by him, as Suetonius reports in his biography, on the following occasion. When Vespasian's son Titus reproached his father for imposing a tax on public latrines, Vespasian brought the first money received from this tax to his nose and asked if they smelled. To the negative answer of Titus, Vespasian said: "And yet they are from urine."

    Domostroy
    "Domostroy" is a monument of Russian literature of the 16th century, which is a set of everyday rules and morals. The husband, according to "Domostroy", is the head of the family, the master of the wife, and "Domostroy" indicates in detail in which cases he should beat his wife, etc. Hence the word "domostroy" means: a conservative way of family life, a morality that affirms the slavish position of a woman.

    Draconian measures
    This is the name given to exorbitantly harsh laws named after the Dragon, the first legislator of the Athenian Republic (VII century BC). Among the punishments determined by its laws, a prominent place was allegedly occupied by the death penalty, which punished, for example, such an offense as stealing vegetables. There was a legend that these laws were written in blood (Plutarch, Solon). In literary speech, the expression "draconian laws", "draconian measures, punishments" became stronger in the meaning of harsh, cruel laws.

    Eat to live, not live to eat
    The aphorism belongs to Socrates (469-399 BC), and was often quoted by ancient writers.

    Yellow press
    In 1895, the American graphic artist Richard Outcault placed a series of frivolous drawings with humorous text in a number of issues of the New York newspaper "The World"; among the drawings was a child in a yellow shirt, to whom various amusing statements were attributed. Soon another newspaper - "New York Journal" - began to print a series of similar drawings. A dispute arose between the two papers over the title to the "yellow boy". In 1896, Erwin Wardman, editor of the New York Press, published an article in his magazine in which he contemptuously called the two competing newspapers "yellow press". Since then, the expression has become catchy.

    finest hour
    An expression by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) from the preface to his collection of historical short stories "Humanity's Star Clock" (1927). Zweig explains that he called historical moments star hours "because, like eternal stars, they always shine in the night of oblivion and decay."

    Knowledge is power
    An expression of the English philosopher Francis Bacon in Moral and Political Essays (1597).

    Golden mean
    An expression from the 2nd book of the odes of the Roman poet Horace: "aurea mediocritas".

    And boring, and sad, and there is no one to give a hand
    Quote from M. Yu. Lermontov's poem "Both boring and sad" (1840).

    And you Brute?
    In Shakespeare's tragedy "Julius Caesar" (d.3, yavl.1), with these words, the dying Caesar addresses Brutus, who was among the conspirators who attacked him in the Senate. Historians consider this phrase legendary. Mark Junius Brutus, whom Caesar considered his supporter, became the head of a conspiracy against him and was one of the participants in his assassination in 44 BC.

    Choose the lesser of two evils
    An expression found in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle "Nicomachean ethics" in the form: "The lesser of evils must be chosen." Cicero (in his essay "On Duties") says: "It is necessary not only to choose the least of the evils, but also to extract from them that which can be good in them."

    Make an elephant out of a fly
    The expression is ancient. It is cited by the Greek writer Lucian (3rd century AD), who ends his satirical "Praise of the Fly" as follows: "But I interrupt my word - although I could say a lot more - so that someone would not think that I , according to the proverb, I make an elephant out of a fly.

    Zest
    The expression is used in the meaning: something that gives a special taste, attractiveness to something (dish, story, person, etc.). It arose from a folk proverb: "Kvass is not expensive, the zest in kvass is expensive"; became winged after the appearance of Leo Tolstoy's drama "The Living Corpse" (1912). The hero of the drama Protasov, talking about his family life, says: “My wife was an ideal woman ... But what can I say? And without the game you won't forget..."

    Capital to acquire and innocence to keep
    An expression popularized by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin ("Letters to Auntie", letter 10, 1882; "Children of Moscow", "Little Things in Life", 1877, "Mon Repos Shelter").

    Scapegoat
    A biblical expression that arose from the description of a special rite among the ancient Jews of laying the sins of the whole people on a live goat; on the day of the absolution, the high priest laid both hands on the head of a living goat as a sign of laying on him the sins of the Jewish people, after which the goat was driven into the wilderness. The expression is used in the sense: a person who is constantly blamed on someone else's fault, who is responsible for others.

    a swan song
    The expression is used in the meaning: the last manifestation of talent. Based on the belief that swans sing before death, it arose in antiquity. Evidence of this is found in one of Aesop's fables (6th century BC): "They say that swans sing before they die."

    Summer. Sink into oblivion
    In Greek mythology, Leta is the river of oblivion in Hades, the underworld; the souls of the dead, upon arrival in the underworld, drank water from it and forgot their entire past life.

    Flying Dutchman
    Dutch legend has preserved the story of a sailor who swore in a strong storm to go around the cape that blocked his path, even if it took him an eternity. For his pride, he was doomed to forever rush on a ship on a raging sea, never touching the shore. This legend, obviously, arose in the age of great discoveries. It is possible that its historical basis was the expedition of Vasco da Gama (1469-1524), who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. In the 17th century this legend was dated to several Dutch captains, which is reflected in its name.

    seize the moment
    The expression, apparently, goes back to Horace ("carpe diem" - "seize the day", "take advantage of the day").

    Lion's share
    The expression goes back to the fable of the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop "The Lion, the Fox and the Donkey", the plot of which - the division of prey among the animals - was later used by Phaedrus, La Fontaine and other fabulists.

    The moor has done his job, the moor can go
    Quote from the drama by F. Schiller (1759 - 1805) "The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa" (1783). This phrase (d.3, yavl.4) is spoken by the Moor, who turned out to be unnecessary after he helped Count Fisco organize an uprising of the Republicans against the tyrant of Genoa, Doge Doria. This phrase has become a saying that characterizes a cynical attitude towards a person whose services are no longer needed.

    Manna from heaven
    According to the Bible, manna is the food that God sent to the Jews every morning from heaven when they went through the desert to the promised land (Exodus, 16, 14-16 and 31).

    Disservice
    The expression arose from the fable by I. A. Krylov "The Hermit and the Bear" (1808).

    Honeymoon
    The idea that the happiness of the first period of marriage is quickly replaced by the bitterness of disappointment, figuratively expressed in Eastern folklore, was used by Voltaire for his philosophical novel Zadig, or Fate (1747), in the 3rd chapter of which he writes: the first month of marriage, as described in the book of Zend, is the honeymoon, and the second is the sagebrush month.

    Between the hammer and the anvil
    The title of a novel (1868) by Friedrich Spielhagen (1829-1911). It is used as a characteristic of the plight of someone, when dangers and troubles threaten from two sides.

    Maecenas
    The wealthy Roman patrician Gaius Tsilny Maecenas (between 74 and 64 - 8 BC) patronized artists and poets widely. Horace, Virgil, Propertius glorified him in their poems. Martial (40 - 102 AD) in one of his epigrams says: "There would be, Flaccus, Patrons, there would be no shortage of Maroons", that is, Virgils (Vergilius Maro). Thanks to the poems of these poets, his name became a household name for a wealthy patron of the arts and sciences.

    Your gift is not dear to me, your love is dear
    An expression from the Russian folk song "On the pavement street":
    Ah, my dear is good,
    Chernobrov soul, handsome,
    Brought me a present
    Dear gift,
    Gold ring from hand.
    I don't care about your gift,
    The road is your love.
    I don't want to wear a ring
    I want to love my friend.

    We have a road for young people everywhere
    Quote from "Song of the Motherland" in the film "Circus" (1936), text by V.I. Lebedev-Kumach, music by I.O. Dunaevsky.

    Milk rivers, kissel banks
    An expression from a Russian folk tale.

    Silent means consent
    The expression of the Pope (1294-1303) Boniface VIII in one of his messages included in canon law (a set of decrees of church authority). This expression goes back to Sophocles (496-406 BC), in whose tragedy "The Trachinian Women" it is said: "Don't you understand that by silence you agree with the accuser?"

    Flour Tantalum
    In Greek mythology, Tantalus, the king of Phrygia (also called the king of Lydia), was a favorite of the gods, who often invited him to their feasts. But, proud of his position, he offended the gods, for which he was severely punished. According to Homer ("Odyssey"), his punishment was that, thrown into Tartarus (hell), he always experiences unbearable pangs of thirst and hunger; he stands up to his neck in water, but the water recedes from him as soon as he bows his head to drink; branches with luxurious fruits hang over him, but as soon as he stretches out his hands to them, the branches deviate. Hence the expression "Tantal's torment" arose, which means: unbearable torment due to the inability to achieve the desired goal, despite its proximity.

    We are lazy and not curious
    Quote from "Journey to Arzrum" (1836) by A. S. Pushkin, ch. 2.

    We cannot wait for favors from nature, it is our task to take them from her
    The expression belongs to the biologist-genetic breeder I. V. Michurin (1855-1935), in practice, on a large scale, who showed the ability to change the hereditary forms of organisms, adapting them to human needs.

    On the seventh sky
    The expression, meaning the highest degree of joy, happiness, goes back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), who in his essay "On the Sky" explains the structure of the firmament. He believed that the sky consists of seven motionless crystal spheres, on which the stars and planets are fixed. The seven heavens are mentioned in various places in the Qur'an: for example, it is said that the Qur'an itself was brought by an angel from the seventh heaven.

    Our shelf has arrived
    An expression from the ancient "game" song "And we sowed millet"; used in the sense: there are more people like us (in some respect).

    Don't throw pearls before swine
    An expression from the Gospel: "Do not give holy things to dogs and do not throw your pearls (church-glory. beads) before swine, so that they do not trample it under their feet and, turning, do not tear you to pieces" (Matt., 7, 6). Used in the meaning: do not waste words with people who cannot understand them, appreciate them.

    Don't be foolish
    An expression from the tragedy of A. S. Pushkin "Boris Godunov" (1831), the scene "Night. A cell in the Miracle Monastery", the words of the chronicler Pimen:
    Describe, without further ado,
    All that you will witness in life.

    I don't want to study, I want to get married
    Mitrofanushka's words from D. I. Fonvizin's comedy "Undergrowth" (1783), d.3, yavl. 7.

    Sky in diamonds
    An expression from A.P. Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya" (1897). In the 4th act, Sonya, comforting the tired Uncle Vanya, exhausted by life, says: “We will rest! the whole world, and our life will become quiet, gentle, sweet, like a caress.

    Despite the faces
    Bible expression. The idea of ​​actions without partiality, without obsequiousness to superiors is expressed in many places of the Old and New Testaments (Deuteronomy, 1, 17; Matt., 22, 16; Mark, 12, 14, etc.), although in somewhat different words. It is possible that the expression "regardless of faces" is a translation of the phrase "Ohne Ansehen der Person" common in German speech, which is a quotation from Luther's translation of the Gospel (1 Peter, 1, 17).

    No one will embrace the immensity
    Aphorism from "The Fruits of Thoughts" by Kozma Prutkov (1854).

    Nothing is new [not forever] under the moon
    Quote from N. M. Karamzin's poem "Experienced Solomon's Wisdom, or Selected Thoughts from Ecclesiastes" (1797):
    Nothing new under the sun
    What is, was, will be forever.
    And before the blood flowed like a river,
    And before the man cried...
    This poem is an imitation of Ecclesiastes, one of the books that make up the Bible.

    New is well forgotten old
    In 1824, the memoirs of the milliner Marie Antoinette, Mademoiselle Bertin, were published in France, in which she said these words about the queen's old dress she had renovated (in fact, her memoirs are fake, their author is Jacques Pesche). This thought was perceived as new, too, only because it was well forgotten. Already Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) said that "there is no new custom that is not old." This quote from Chaucer was popularized by Walter Scott's Folk Songs of Southern Scotland.

    O times! oh manners!
    An expression that Cicero (106-43 BC) often used in his speeches, for example, in his first speech against Catiline. It is also quoted in Latin: "O tempora! o mores!".

    About dead or good or nothing
    An expression often quoted in Latin: "De mortuis nil nisi bene" or "De mortuis aut bene aut nihil", apparently, goes back to the work of Diogenes Laertes (3rd century AD): "Life, Doctrine and Opinions famous philosophers", which contains the saying of one of the "seven wise men" - Chilo (VI century BC): "Do not slander about the dead."

    O holy simplicity!
    This expression is attributed to the leader of the Czech national movement Jan Hus (1369-1415). Sentenced by a church council as a heretic to be burned, he allegedly uttered these words at the stake when he saw that some old woman (according to another version - a peasant woman) in ingenuous religious zeal threw the brushwood she brought into the fire of the fire. However, Hus's biographers, based on eyewitness accounts of his death, deny the fact that he uttered this phrase. The ecclesiastical writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 345-410) in his continuation of Eusebius' History of the Church reports that the expression "holy simplicity" was uttered at the First Council of Nicaea (325) by one of the theologians. This expression is often used in Latin: "O sancta simplicitas!".

    Formed
    In L. N. Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina", part 1, ch. 2 (1875), the valet encourages his master, Stepan Arkadevich, upset by a quarrel with his wife, with this word. This word, used in the sense of "everything will be settled", which became winged after the appearance of Tolstoy's novel, was probably heard by him somewhere. He used it in one of his letters to his wife back in 1866, urging her not to worry about various everyday troubles. His wife, in a reply letter, repeated his words: "Probably, all this will work out."

    Window to Europe
    An expression from A. S. Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman", Introduction (1834):
    On the shore of desert waves
    He stood, full of great thoughts,
    And looked into the distance...
    And he thought:
    From here we will threaten the Swede.
    Here the city will be founded
    To spite an arrogant neighbor.
    Nature here is destined for us
    Cut a window to Europe...
    This expression, as Pushkin himself pointed out in the notes to the poem, goes back to the Italian writer Algarotti (1712-1764), who in his "Letters about Russia" said: "Petersburg is a window through which Russia looks to Europe."

    An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth
    An expression from the Bible, the formula of the law of retribution: "A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: as he did damage to the human body, so it must be done to him" (Leviticus, 24, 20; about the same - Exodus, 21, 24; Deuteronomy 19:21).

    Left horns and legs
    A not entirely accurate quote from a song by an unknown author "The Gray Goat", which appeared in song books since 1855.

    From great to funny one step
    This phrase was often repeated by Napoleon during his flight from Russia in December 1812 to his ambassador in Warsaw de Pradt, who told about it in the book "History of the Embassy to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw" (1816). Its primary source is the expression of the French writer Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) in the fifth volume of his works (1787): "In general, the funny comes into contact with the great."

    Oh, you are heavy, Monomakh's hat!
    A quote from A. S. Pushkin's tragedy "Boris Godunov", the scene "The Tsar's Chambers" (1831), Boris's monologue (Monomakh in Greek is a wrestler; a nickname that was attached to the names of some Byzantine emperors. In ancient Russia, this nickname was assigned to the Grand Duke Vladimir (beginning of the 12th century), from which the Moscow tsars originated. Monomakh's cap is the crown with which the Moscow tsars were crowned to the kingdom, a symbol of royal power). The above quotation characterizes some difficult situation.

    panic fear
    Originated from Greek myths about Pan, the god of forests and fields. According to the myths, Pan brings sudden and unaccountable terror to people, especially travelers in remote and lonely places, as well as to the troops who rush to flee from this. This is where the word "panic" comes from.

    Feast in Time of Plague
    The name of the dramatic scenes of A. S. Pushkin (1832), the basis for which was a scene from the poems of the English poet John Wilson "The Plague City" (1816). Used in the meaning: a feast, a cheerful, carefree life during a public disaster.

    Plato is my friend but the truth is dearer
    The Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) in his work "Phaedo" attributes to Socrates the words "Following me, think less about Socrates, and more about the truth." Aristotle in his work "Nicomachean Ethics", arguing with Plato and having in mind him, writes: "Let friends and truth be dear to me, but duty commands me to give preference to truth." Luther (1483-1546) says: "Plato is my friend, Socrates is my friend, but the truth should be preferred" ("On the Enslaved Will", 1525). The expression "Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas" - "Plato is my friend, but the truth is dearer", formulated by Cervantes in the 2nd part, ch. 51 novels "Don Quixote" (1615).

    The Fruits of Enlightenment
    The title of a comedy by L. N. Tolstoy (1891).

    Dancing to someone else's tune
    The expression is used in the sense: to act not according to one's own will, but according to the arbitrariness of another. It goes back to the Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC), who in the 1st book of his "History" tells: when the Persian king Cyrus conquered the Medes, the Greeks of Asia Minor, whom he had previously tried in vain to win over to his side, expressed their readiness obey him, but under certain conditions. Then Cyrus told them the following fable: “One flutist, seeing the fish in the sea, began to play the flute, expecting that they would come to him on land. Deceived in hope, he took the net, threw it and pulled out a lot of fish. tangled in nets, he said to them: "Stop dancing; when I played the flute, you didn't want to go out and dance." This fable is attributed to Aesop (6th century BC).

    Success is never blamed
    These words are attributed to Catherine II, who allegedly put it this way when A.V. Suvorov was brought to court martial for the assault on Turtukai in 1773, undertaken by him contrary to the orders of Field Marshal Rumyantsev. However, the story of Suvorov's arbitrary actions and his being put on trial is refuted by serious researchers.

    Know yourself
    According to the legend reported by Plato in the dialogue "Protagoras", the seven wise men of ancient Greece (Thales, Pittacus, Byant, Solon, Cleobulus, Mison and Chilo), having come together in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, wrote: "Know thyself." The idea of ​​self-knowledge was explained and spread by Socrates. This expression is often used in the Latin form: nosce te ipsum.

    After us at least a flood
    This phrase is attributed to the French king Louis XV, but memoirists claim that it belongs to the favorite of this king, the Marquise of Pompadour (1721-1764). She said it in 1757 to console the king, dejected by the defeat of the French troops at Rosbach. It is possible that this phrase is an echo of a verse by an unknown Greek poet, who was often quoted by Cicero and Seneca: "After my death, let the world perish in fire."

    Potemkin villages
    In 1783, on the initiative of the statesman of the time of Catherine II, Prince G. A. Potemkin (1739-1791), Crimea was annexed to Russia, which was included in Novorossia. Contemporaries said that Potemkin, in order to show Catherine the prosperity of the new territory (during her trip to the south in 1787), erected villages on the way of the empress, which were entirely decorations, put up to meet her festively dressed people, driven from afar, but posing as local residents, showed grain warehouses in which bags instead of flour were stuffed with sand, drove the same herd of cattle from one place to another at night, planted parks in Kremenchug and other cities, and the planting was carried out for several days, so that the plantations died after Ekaterina's passage, etc.

    The delay of death is like
    In 1711, before the Prussian campaign, Peter I sent a letter to the newly established Senate. Thanks to the senators for their activities, he demanded that they continue not to delay the necessary orders, "before the passage of time is like death irrevocably." Winged words of Peter received in a shorter form: "Procrastination is like death."

    Indulge in all the hard
    Large bells in ancient Russia were called "heavy". The nature of the bell ringing, i.e. when and which bells to ring was determined by the "Typicon" - a church charter, in which the expression "strike with all seriousness" meant: strike all the bells at once. From here arose the expression "to go all out", which is used in the meaning: to go astray from the right path of life, to begin to indulge uncontrollably in revelry, debauchery, extravagance, etc.

    spreading cranberry
    The expression is used as a playful designation of absurd reports about Russia and Russians, belonging to ill-informed foreigners, in general - anything implausible, revealing complete unfamiliarity with the subject. The oral tradition considers the description of the journey through Russia by Alexandre Dumas-father (1803-1870) to be the source of this expression. Meanwhile, in the books describing his journey through Russia, there are no gross distortions in the depiction of Russian nature, Russian customs and customs. In the "Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" ed. D. N. Ushakov, it is reported that the expression "came from a description of Russia, in which a superficial French author sat under the shade of a majestic cranberry." It can be assumed that the expression "spreading cranberry" of parodic origin originated with a Russian author who ridiculed the really anecdotal descriptions of Russian life found in some poorly informed French authors.

    Cheer up, shoulder! Wave your hand!
    Quote from A. V. Koltsov's poem "Mower" (1835).

    rare bird
    This expression (lat. rara avis) in the meaning of "rare creature" is first found in the satires of Roman poets, for example, in Juvenal (mid. I century - after 127 AD): "A rare bird on earth, sort of like black Swan".

    Born to crawl cannot fly
    Quote from "The Song of the Falcon" by M. Gorky.

    Hands off!
    Expresses the requirement not to intervene in the affairs of someone or something, to preserve the integrity of something. This expression as a political slogan was first used by the English Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) in reference to Austria, which occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in the autumn of 1878.

    Snout in fluff
    An expression from the fable of I. A. Krylov "The Fox and the Marmot" (1813). The fox complains to the Groundhog that she suffers in vain and, slandered, was expelled for bribes:
    - You know, I was a chicken coop judge,
    Lost health and peace in business,
    I didn’t eat a piece in the labors,
    Nights did not sleep:
    And I fell under anger for that;
    And all by slander. Well, think for yourself:
    Who in the world will be right if you listen to slander?
    Should I take bribes? yes, I'm pissed off!
    Well, have you seen, I will send for you,
    That I was involved in this sin?
    Think, remember well...
    - No, gossip; I often saw
    That your stigma is down.
    This expression is used in the meaning: to be involved in something criminal, unseemly.

    From ship to ball
    An expression from "Eugene Onegin" by A. S. Pushkin, chapter 8, stanza 13 (1832):
    And travel to him
    Like everything in the world, tired,
    He returned and got
    Like Chatsky, from the ship to the ball.
    This expression is characterized by an unexpected, abrupt change in position, circumstances.

    With a sweet paradise and in a hut
    Quote from the poem by N. M. Ibragimov (1778-1818) "Russian Song" ("In the evening, the girl is beautiful ..."):
    Do not look for me, rich:
    You are not dear to my soul.
    What do I, what are your chambers?
    With a sweet paradise and in a hut!
    First published in 1815, this poem gained great popularity and became a folk song.

    With feeling, with sense, with arrangement
    Quote from A. S. Griboyedov's comedy "Woe from Wit" (1824), d.2, yavl.1.

    blue stocking
    The expression denoting the contemptuous name of women who are completely absorbed in bookish, scientific interests arose in England in the 80s of the 18th century. and did not have the disparaging meaning that it received later. Initially, it meant a circle of people of both sexes who gathered at Lady Montagu's for discussions on literary and scientific topics. The soul of the conversations was the scientist Benjamin Stellingfleet (1702-1771), who, neglecting fashion, wore blue stockings with dark clothes. When for some reason he did not appear in the circle, they repeated: "We cannot live without blue stockings, today the conversation is going badly - there are no blue stockings!" Thus, this nickname was first given to a man and not a woman. The expression especially spread when Byron used it in his satire on Lady Montague's circle "The Blues" - "Blue".

    Blue bird
    A play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), staged at the Moscow Art Theater on September 30, 1908. The plot of this play is the adventures of a poor woodcutter's children in search of the Blue Bird. According to Oak in the play, the Blue Bird is "the secret of things and happiness". "If a person finds the Blue Bird, he will know everything, see everything" (the words of the Cat).

    Mixing French with Nizhny Novgorod
    Quote from A. S. Griboedov's comedy "Woe from Wit".

    Combine pleasant with useful
    An expression from the "Art of Poetry" by Horace, who says about the poet: "The one who combines pleasant with useful is worthy of all approval."

    Happy hours don't watch
    Quote from A. S. Griboyedov's comedy "Woe from Wit", d.1, yavl. 4, Sophia's words.

    Wash your hands
    Used in the meaning: to be removed from responsibility for something. Arose from the Gospel: Pilate washed his hands in front of the crowd, giving Jesus to her for execution, and said: "I am not guilty of the blood of this righteous man" (Matt., 27, 24). The ritual washing of hands, which serves as evidence of the non-participation of the person washing to something, is described in the Bible (Deuteronomy, 21, 6-7).

    Vulnerable point
    It arose from the myth about the only vulnerable spot on the hero's body: Achilles' heel, a spot on Siegfried's back, etc. Used in the meaning: the weak side of a person, deeds.

    Fortune. Wheel of Fortune
    Fortune - in Roman mythology, the goddess of blind chance, happiness and misfortune. She was depicted with a blindfold, standing on a ball or wheel (emphasizing her constant variability), and holding a steering wheel in one hand, and a cornucopia in the other. The steering wheel indicated that fortune controls the fate of a person.

    He who laughs last laughs best
    The expression belongs to the French writer Jean-Pierre Florian (1755-1794), who used it in the fable "Two Peasants and a Cloud".

    End justifies the means
    The idea of ​​this expression, which is the basis of the morality of the Jesuits, was borrowed by them from the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

    Man to man wolf
    An expression from the "Donkey Comedy" by the ancient Roman writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC).

    Q.E.D
    This formula ends every mathematical reasoning of the great Greek mathematician Euclid (III century BC).

    What we have, we do not store, having lost, crying
    The name of the vaudeville (1844) S. Solovyov

    The language of native aspens
    An expression from an epigram (1884) by I. S. Turgenev to N. Kh. Ketcher (1809-1886), a translator of Shakespeare; his translations are distinguished by their exceptional closeness to the original, which often harms poetry:
    Here is another light of the world!
    Ketcher, friend of sparkling wines;
    He pereper to us Shakespeare
    In the language of native aspens.
    This expression is used ironically about rough translations from foreign languages ​​into Russian.