先日お伝えしたオーストラリアのオーガニックレストランで見かけたチョークアート。すごく素敵でした。ポイントは単純にメニューやお店の名前ではなく、名言が書かれているからです。さりげなく書くと文化的な匂いがしてかっこいいです。もう一度そのレストランの写真をお見せします。アンネフランクの名言です。
No one has Ever Become poor by Giving
そこで、いろんな名言を集めてみました。参考にしてみてください。
FAMOUS QUOTES IN ENGLISH
- About LIFE
“Life is long, if you know how to use it.”
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
“But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
“Let us read, and let us dance – these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire, Liberty of the Press from Philosophical Dictionary Vol. VII (1764)
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced”
Søren Kierkegaard
- About LOVE
“I hate and I love
Why do I, you ask ?
I don’t know, but it’s happening
and it hurts”
Catullus
“Let us live and love, nor give a damn what sour old men say.
The sun that sets may rise again, but when our light has sunk into the earth it is gone forever.”
Catullus
“The ear is the avenue to the heart”
Voltaire, Réponse au Roi du Prusse (April 20, 1741)
- About HAPPINESS
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
Voltaire, The Maid of Orleans (1755)
“Tears are the silent language of grief”
Voltaire, Tears Philosophical Dictionary Vol. X (1764)
“The best is the enemy of the good”
Voltaire, La Bégueule (1772)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”
Roy M. Goodman
4．About TRAVEL
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”
Anais Nin
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
Anonymous
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”
Saint Augustine
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”
Henry Miller
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”
Lao Tzu
- About FRIENDSHIP
“A journey is better measured in friends, rather than miles”
Tim Cahill
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you”
Winnie The Pooh
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out”
Walter Winchell
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
- Fancy quotes
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
Albert Camus
SOME FAMOUS QUOTES IN LATIN
- “Odi et amo”
– Catullus (look above, English quotes about LOVE)
- “Carpe diem”
– Catullus