Nowadays, a person cannot live without English, because it is everywhere: music, cinema, the Internet, video games, even inscriptions on T-shirts. If you are looking interesting quote or just a beautiful phrase, then this article is just for you. From it you will learn famous movie quotes, useful colloquial expressions and simply beautiful phrases in English (with translation).

About love

This feeling inspires artists, musicians, poets, writers, directors and other representatives of the creative world. How many wonderful works are dedicated to love! For centuries, people have tried to find the most accurate formulations that would reflect the essence of this spiritualizing feeling. There are poetic, philosophical and even humorous phrases. A lot has been written and said about love in English, let’s try to collect the most interesting examples.

Love is blind. - Love is blind.

It is difficult to argue with this statement, but there is another that can better clarify the idea expressed.

Love isn’t blind, it just sees what matters. - Love is not blind, it only sees what is really important.

The next aphorism continues the same theme. In the original it sounds in French, but it is presented here English translation. These beautiful and precise words belong to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the main thing with your eyes.

Other beautiful saying characterizes not only the feeling itself, but also loving people.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - To fall in love does not mean to find, but to learn to accept the imperfect.

And finally, let’s give a humorous one. However, it contains a rather serious meaning.

Love me, love my dog ​​(literal translation: if you love me, love my dog ​​too). - If you love me, then you will love everything connected with me.

Movie buffs

People who love watching films will certainly be interested in quotes from popular American films of different times. There are interesting and even very beautiful phrases there. In English with translation you can find a list of the hundred most famous movie quotes. It was compiled by leading American critics 10 years ago. The first place in it is occupied by the words spoken in the scene of the breakup of the main characters of the film “Gone with the Wind”: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. “Honestly, my dear, I don’t care.”

The list also includes many other recognizable quotes from classic films. Some of these films are quite old, filmed in the mid-twentieth century. Phrases from them are now usually used in a humorous capacity.

No less popular are quotes from other famous American films made relatively recently, from the 80s to the 2000s. Those of them that were especially loved by the audience became sources of wonderful quotes.

To better understand humor in a foreign language, it is good to know at least some famous quotes from film classics, since they are familiar to the English-speaking population of the world in the same way that residents of the CIS are familiar with phrases from Soviet films.

For tattoos

What phrases can you use? For example, generalizing life experience. This tattoo is suitable for a person who has recently experienced a difficult situation, but managed to learn a lesson from his troubles.

You can also get tattoos of words that will inspire you. By applying such a pattern to your skin, you will, as it were, “recharge” with the energy that words that are important to you carry.

When choosing a tattoo with an inscription, it is important to find one that you want to wear on your skin always. The good thing about the English language is that you can choose a saying that will contain a minimum of letters and words, but a maximum of meaning. For a text tattoo, this is the perfect formula.

On a T-shirt

The inscriptions on clothes look very interesting. You can pick up something suitable in the store, but if you want real originality, then it is better to choose a personal motto for yourself, and then order such an inscription on a T-shirt. Beautiful phrases in English language. Choose any or come up with your own, and approximate options are presented below.

• Music is my language (Music is my language).
• I always get what I want (I always get what I want).
• Forever young (Forever young).
• Follow your heart (Follow your heart).
• Now or never (Now or never).
• Don’t judge me by my clothes (Don’t judge me by my clothes, don’t meet me by my clothes).
• I love chocolate (I love chocolate). Instead of chocolate there can be any other words: music - music, tea - tea, etc.

To status

For social networks, you can also use beautiful phrases in English. You don’t have to place them together with the translation: those who know the language will understand this way, and those who don’t know can ask you. This question may well begin acquaintance and communication. Which English phrases are good for status on a social network? First of all, those that will reflect the current attitude of the owner or hostess of the page. In the list below you will find phrases with both life-affirming meaning and those suitable for a bad mood.

Communication

If you are learning English, you have the opportunity to practice your skills through communication in special chats, forums, as well as in social networks. To make the conversation easier and more natural, it is useful to remember at least a few. You can always have a list on hand and read it periodically.

Useful conversational phrases in English can vary - from the simplest, accepted in informal and friendly communication, to ornate polite formulas that are good to use in a conversation with a stranger or unfamiliar person.

Below are examples of some colloquial clichés. The first group consists of those that allow you to thank your interlocutor or respond to gratitude.

Another group is phrases that allow you to calm and support a person during a conversation.

The following selection of expressions can be used to express polite refusal or agreement with the proposal (invitation) of a communication partner.

And the last small list of phrases allows you to ask your interlocutor questions to clarify a particular situation, to recognize latest news etc.

This article presented well-known, useful and simply beautiful phrases in English with translation. They will help you better understand humor, express your thoughts and enjoy communication in a foreign language.

Top most famous catchphrases

Who are the judges?
Quote from A. S. Griboedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit” (1824), d.2, yavl.5, words by Chatsky:
Who are the judges? - For the antiquity of years
Their enmity towards a free life is irreconcilable,
Judgments are drawn from forgotten newspapers
The times of the Ochakovskys and the conquest of Crimea.

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

Without a rudder and without sails
Quote from M. Yu. Lermnotov’s poem “The Demon” (1842), part 1:
On the air ocean
Without a rudder and without 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 and brings triumphs to captives.
However, such a lucky person is rarer than a black sheep.

Adopt greyhound puppies
It arose from the comedy of N.V. Gogol's "The Inspector General", d. 1, yavl. 1, words by Lyapin-Tyapkin: “There are different sins. I tell everyone openly that I take bribes, but with what bribes? With greyhound puppies. This is a completely different matter.”

Throwing a stone
The expression “throwing a stone” at someone in the sense of “accusing” arose from the Gospel (John 8:7); Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, who, tempting him, brought to him a woman caught in adultery: “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her” (in ancient Judea there was a penalty - stoning).

Paper endures everything (Paper does not turn red)
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” - “A letter does not blush,” that is, in writing one can express thoughts that one is 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. Polevoy (1837).

You cannot harness a horse and a tremulous doe to one cart
Quote from the poem by A.S. Pushkin "Poltava" (1829).

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

Let's go back to our sheep
With these words in the farce “Lawyer Pierre Patlen” (c. 1470), the first of a series of anonymous farces about the lawyer Patlin, the judge interrupts the speech of a wealthy clothier. Having initiated a case against the shepherd who stole his sheep, the clothier, forgetting about his litigation, showers reproaches on the shepherd's defender, lawyer Patlen, who did not pay him for six cubits of cloth.

Wolf in sheep's clothing
The expression originated from the Gospel: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

In borrowed plumes
It arose from a fable by I.A. Krylov "The Crow" (1825).

Time is money
An aphorism from the work of the American scientist and politician Franklin (1706-1790) “Advice to a Young Merchant” (1748).

I carry everything I have with me
The expression originated from an ancient Greek legend. When the Persian king Cyrus occupied the city of Priene in Ionia, the inhabitants abandoned it, taking with them the most valuable of their possessions. Only Biant, one of the “seven wise men”, a native of Priene, left empty-handed. In response to the perplexed questions of his fellow citizens, he answered, referring to spiritual values: “I carry everything I own with me.” This expression is often used in the Latin formulation due to Cicero: Omnia mea mecum porto.

Everything flows, everything changes
This expression, defining the constant variability of all things, sets out the essence of the teachings of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus from Ephesus (c. 530-470 BC)

Was there a boy?
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 the wormwood. Klim hands Boris the end of his gymnasium belt, but, feeling that he too is being pulled into the water, he lets go of the belt. Children are drowning. When the search for the drowned begins, Klim is struck by “someone’s serious, incredulous question: “Was there a boy, maybe there wasn’t a boy.” The last phrase became popular as a figurative expression of extreme doubt about something.

Twenty two misfortunes
This is how in A.P. Chekhov’s play “The Cherry Orchard” (1903) they call the clerk Epikhodov, with whom some comic misfortune happens every day. The expression is applied to people with whom some misfortune constantly happens.

Twenty-three years and nothing has been done for immortality
Words of Don Carlos from F. Schiller's drama "Don Carlos, Infant 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, to the future, old - back, to the past. The resulting expression “two-faced Janus” or simply “Janus” means: a two-faced person.

The work of helping drowning people is the work of the drowning people 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, hung 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 introducing a tax on public latrines, Vespasian brought the first money received from this tax to his nose and asked if it smelled. To Titus's negative answer, Vespasian said: "And yet they are made of urine."

Domostroy
"Domostroy" is a monument of Russian literature of the 16th century, which is a set of everyday rules and moral teachings. The husband, according to Domostroy, is the head of the family, the master of the wife, and Domostroy indicates in detail in what cases he must beat his wife, etc. Hence the word “domostroy” means: conservative way of life family life, a morality that affirms the slave position of women.

Draconian measures
This is the name given to the excessively harsh laws named after Dragon, the first legislator of the Athenian Republic (7th century BC). Among the punishments determined by its laws, the death penalty allegedly occupied a prominent place, which punished, for example, such an offense as theft of 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, American graphic artist Richard Outcault published 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 picture of a child in a yellow shirt, to whom various funny sayings were attributed. Soon another newspaper, the New York Journal, began publishing a series of similar drawings. A dispute arose between these two newspapers over the right of primacy 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 both competing newspapers "yellow press." Since then, the expression has become popular.

Finest hour
An expression by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) from the preface to his collection of historical short stories, Humanity's Finest Hours (1927). Zweig explains that he called historical moments sidereal hours “because, like eternal stars, they invariably shine in the night of oblivion and decay.”

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

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

And it’s boring, and sad, and there’s no one to give a hand to
Quote from the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov “Both boring and sad” (1840).

And you Brute?
In Shakespeare's tragedy "Julius Caesar" (d. 3, iv. 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. Marcus Junius Brutus, whom Caesar considered his supporter, became the head of the conspiracy against him and was one of those involved in his assassination in 44 BC.

Choose the lesser of two evils
An expression found in the works 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: “One should not only choose the least of evils, but also extract from them themselves what can be good in them.”

Making an elephant out of a molehill
The expression is one of the ancient ones. It is quoted by the Greek writer Lucian (3rd century AD), who ends his satirical “Praise of the Fly” like this: “But I interrupt my speech, although I could say a lot more, lest anyone think that I “As the proverb goes, I make a mountain out of a molehill.”

Highlight
The expression is used in the meaning: something that gives a special taste, attractiveness to something (a dish, a story, a person, etc.). Originated from folk proverb: “Kvass is not expensive, the zest in kvass is expensive”; became popular after the appearance of L. N. 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 tell you? There was no zest - you know, the zest in kvass? - there was no game in our life. And I had to forget myself . And without the game you won’t forget..."

Capital to acquire and innocence to maintain
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 a description of the special ritual that existed among the ancient Jews of transferring the sins of the entire people onto a living goat; on the day of absolution, the high priest laid both hands on the head of a living goat as a sign of transferring the sins of the Jewish people to it, after which the goat was driven into the desert. The expression is used in the sense: a person who is constantly being blamed for someone else, who is responsible for others.

a swan song
The expression is used to mean: the last manifestation of talent. Based on the belief that swans sing before death, it arose in ancient times. 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, Lethe is the river of oblivion in Hades, the underworld; upon arrival in the underworld, the souls of the dead drank water from it and forgot their entire past life.

Flying Dutchman
A Dutch legend has preserved the story of a sailor who vowed, in a strong storm, to round the cape that blocked his path, even if it took him forever. Because of his pride, he was doomed to forever rush around on a ship on a stormy sea, never landing on 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 associated with several Dutch captains, which is reflected in its name.

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

The 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 leave
Quote from the drama by F. Schiller (1759 - 1805) “The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa” (1783). This phrase (d.3, iv.4) is uttered by the Moor, who turned out to be unnecessary after he helped Count Fisco organize a rebellion of the Republicans against the tyrant of Genoa, Doge Doria. This phrase has become a saying characterizing 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 walked through the desert to the promised land (Exodus 16, 14-16 and 31).

Disservice
The expression arose from I. A. Krylov’s fable “The Hermit and the Bear” (1808).

Honeymoon
The idea that the happiness of the first stage of marriage quickly gives way to 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: “Zadig experienced that The first month of marriage, as described in the book of Zend, is the honeymoon, and the second is the wormwood month."

Between a rock and a hard place
Title of the novel (1868) by Friedrich Spielhagen (1829-1911). It is used to characterize the difficult situation of someone when dangers and troubles threaten from two sides.

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

Your gift is not dear to me, your love is dear to me
An expression from the Russian folk song “On the Pavement Street”:
Oh, my darling is good,
Chernobrov soul, handsome,
He brought me a gift,
Dear gift,
A gold ring from the hand.
Your gift is not dear to me, -
Dear is your love.
I don't want to wear a ring
I want to love my friend like that.

Young people love us 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, jelly banks
An expression from a Russian folk tale.

Silent means consent
Expression of Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) 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?”

Torments of Tantalus
In Greek mythology, Tantalus, the king of Phrygia (also called the king of Lydia), was the 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, cast into Tartarus (hell), he forever experiences the 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. This is where the expression “torment of Tantalus” arose, meaning: unbearable torment due to the inability to achieve the desired goal, despite its proximity.

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

We cannot wait for favors from nature; taking them from her is our task
The expression belongs to the biologist-geneticist breeder I.V. Michurin (1855-1935), who in practice, on a large scale, 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 and happiness, goes back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), who in his essay “On Heaven” explains the structure of the firmament. He believed that the sky consists of seven motionless crystal spheres on which the stars and planets are established. The seven heavens are mentioned in various places in the Quran: for example, it is said that the Quran itself was brought by an angel from the seventh heaven.

Our regiment has arrived
An expression from the ancient “game” song “And we sowed millet”; used in the meaning: there have been more people like us (in some respect).

Don't throw pearls before swine
An expression from the Gospel: “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls (Church Slavic beads) before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces” (Matt. 7:6). Used to mean: do not waste words with people who cannot understand or appreciate them.

Without further ado
An expression from A. S. Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov” (1831), scene “Night. Cell in the Miracle Monastery”, 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
Words by Mitrofanushka from D. I. Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor” (1783), no. 3, yavl. 7.

The sky is in diamonds
An expression from A. P. Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” (1897). In the 4th act, Sonya, consoling the tired Uncle Vanya, exhausted by life, says: “We will rest! We will hear the angels, we will see the whole sky in diamonds, we will see how all earthly evil, all our suffering will drown in the mercy that will fill the whole world, and our life will become quiet, gentle, sweet, like a caress.”

Regardless of faces
Expression from the Bible. The idea of ​​acting without partiality, without subservience to superiors is expressed in many places in the Old and New Testaments (Deuteronomy 1:17; Matt. 22:16; Mark 12:14, etc.), although in slightly different words. It is possible that the expression “regardless of persons” is a translation of the phrase “Ohne Ansehen der Person”, common in German speech, which is a quote from Luther’s translation of the Gospel (First Epistle of Peter, 1, 17).

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

Nothing is new [eternal] under the moon
Quote from N. M. Karamzin’s poem “Experienced Solomon’s Wisdom, or Selected Thoughts from Ecclesiastes” (1797):
There's nothing new under the sun:
What is, has been, will forever be.
And before, blood flowed like a river,
And before, a 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 milliner Marie Antoinette Mademoiselle Bertin were published in France, in which she said these words about the queen’s old dress that she had updated (in reality, her memoirs are fake - their author is Jacques Pesce). This idea was perceived as new only because it had been 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 book The Folk Songs of Southern Scotland.

O times! oh morals!
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 the dead it's either good or nothing
The 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 Laertius (3rd century AD): "Life, teaching and opinions famous philosophers", which contains the saying of one of the "seven wise men" - Chilon (VI century BC): "Do not slander the dead."

Oh 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 simple-minded religious zeal threw the brushwood she had brought into the fire. However, Hus's biographers, based on reports of eyewitnesses to his death, deny the fact that he uttered this phrase. The church writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 345-410), in his continuation of Eusebius's 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, chapter 2 (1875), the valet uses this word to encourage his master, Stepan Arkadyevich, who is upset by a quarrel with his wife. This word, used in the sense of “everything will be settled,” which became popular 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, convincing her not to worry about various everyday troubles. His wife repeated his words in a response letter: “Probably, all this will work out.”

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

An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth
An expression from the Bible, the formula for the law of retribution: “A fracture for a fracture, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: as he has done damage to a man’s body, so must he do it” (Leviticus, 24, 20; about the same - Exodus, 21, 24; Deuteronomy 19, 21).

All that's left are the horns and legs
A not entirely accurate quote from a song by an unknown author, “The Little Gray Goat,” which has appeared in songbooks 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 spoke 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-François 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!
Quote from A. S. Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov”, scene “The Royal Chambers” (1831), monologue of Boris (Monomakh in Greek is a martial artist; a nickname that was associated with the names of some Byzantine emperors. In ancient Rus', this nickname was assigned to the Grand Duke Vladimir (beginning of the 12th century), from whom the Moscow kings traced their origin. Monomakh's cap is the crown with which the Moscow kings were crowned kings, a symbol of royal power). The above quote characterizes a difficult situation.

Panic fear
Originated from the Greek myths about Pan, the god of forests and fields. According to myths, Pan brings sudden and unaccountable terror to people, especially to travelers in remote and secluded places, as well as to troops who 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 “Plague City” (1816). Used in the meaning: feast, cheerful, carefree life during some public disaster.

Plato is my friend but the truth is dearer
The Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) in his essay “Phaedo” attributes to Socrates the words “Following me, think less about Socrates, and more about the truth.” Aristotle, in his work “Nicomachean Ethics,” polemicizing with Plato and referring to him, writes: “Even though friends and truth are dear to me, duty commands me to give preference to truth.” Luther (1483-1546) says: “Plato is my friend, Socrates is my friend, but 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”, was formulated by Cervantes in the 2nd part, ch. 51 novels "Don Quixote" (1615).

The fruits of enlightenment
The title of L. N. Tolstoy's comedy (1891).

Dancing to someone else's tune
The expression is used to mean: to act not according to one’s own will, but according to the will of another. Goes back to the Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC), who in the 1st book of his “History” says: 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 flute player, seeing fish in the sea, began to play the flute, expecting that they would come to him on land. Having been deceived in his hope, he took a net, threw it in and pulled out a lot of fish. Seeing how the fish fighting in the nets, he told them: “Stop dancing; when I played the flute, you did not want to go out and dance." This fable is attributed to Aesop (VI century BC).

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

Know yourself
According to the legend reported by Plato in the dialogue “Protagoras”, the seven sages of ancient Greece (Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Cleobulus, Myson and Chilo), having come together in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, wrote: “Know yourself.” The idea of ​​knowing oneself was explained and disseminated by Socrates. This expression is often used in its Latin form: nosce te ipsum.

After us there might be 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, which 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 times of Catherine II, Prince G. A. Potemkin (1739-1791), Crimea was annexed to Russia, included in Novorossiya. 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 empress’s path that were entirely decorations, and set up festively dressed people to meet her, who had been brought from afar, but presented themselves as local residents, showed grain warehouses in which sacks were filled with sand instead of flour, drove the same herd of cattle from one place to another at night, planted parks in Kremenchug and other cities, and planting was carried out for several days, so that the plantings died after Catherine's passage, etc.

Delay is like death
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 in making the necessary orders, “before the lapse of time is like death, irrevocable.” Peter's words gained popularity in a more concise form: “Delay is like death.”

Go all out
Large bells in ancient Rus' were called "heavy". The nature of the bell ringing, i.e. when and which bells should be rung was determined by the “Typikon” - the church charter, in which the expression “strike at full speed” meant: ring all the bells at once. This is where the expression “go all out” arose, which is used to mean: to go astray from the correct path in life, to begin uncontrollably indulging in carousing, debauchery, extravagance, etc.

Spreading cranberry
The expression is used as a humorous designation for nonsense reports about Russia and Russians, belonging to ill-informed foreigners, in general - anything implausible, revealing complete unfamiliarity with the subject. Oral tradition considers the source of this expression to be the description of a journey through Russia by Alexandre Dumas father (1803-1870). Meanwhile, in the books describing his travels around Russia, no gross distortions in the depiction of Russian nature, Russian morals and customs are found. In "Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" ed. D. N. Ushakova reports that the expression “came from a description of Russia, in which a superficial French author sat under the shadow of a majestic cranberry tree.” It can be assumed that the expression “spreading cranberry” is of parodic origin and arose from a Russian author, ridiculing the truly anecdotal descriptions of Russian life found in some ill-informed French authors.

Get itchy, shoulder! Swing your hand!
Quote from A.V. Koltsov’s poem “Mower” (1835).

Rare bird
This expression (Latin rara avis) meaning “rare creature” is first found in the satires of Roman poets, for example, in Juvenal (mid-1st century - after 127 AD): “A rare bird on earth, sort of like black Swan".

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

Hands off!
Expresses the requirement of non-interference in the affairs of someone or something, maintaining the inviolability of something. This expression as a political slogan was first used by the English minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) to address Austria, which occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fall of 1878.

Stigma in fluff
An expression from I. A. Krylov’s fable “The Fox and the Marmot” (1813). The Fox complains to the Woodchuck that she is suffering in vain and, slandered, was exiled for bribes:
- You know, I was the judge of the chicken coop,
I lost my health and peace in my affairs,
In my labors I didn’t finish eating a bite,
Didn't get enough sleep at night:
And for that I fell into anger;
And everything is based on slander. Well, just think about it:
Who will be right in the world if he listens to slander?
Should I take bribes? Am I going to get mad?
Well, have you seen, I'll go after you,
So that I am involved in this sin?
Think, remember carefully...
- No, Kumushka; I have often seen
That your stigma is covered in fluff.
This expression is used to mean: to be involved in something criminal, unseemly.

From the ship to the ball
Expression from “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin, chapter 8, stanza 13 (1832):
And travel for him,
Like everyone else in the world, I'm tired of it,
He returned and hit
Like Chatsky, from the ship to the ball.
This expression characterizes an unexpected, sharp change in situation or circumstances.

With sweetheart paradise and in a hut
Quote from the poem by N. M. Ibragimov (1778-1818) “Russian Song” (“In the evening the maiden is beautiful...”):
Don't look for me, rich man:
You are not dear to my soul.
What do I care about your chambers?
With my dear one, heaven and in the 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. Griboedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit” (1824), d.2, yavl.1.

Blue stocking
The expression, denoting a contemptuous name for 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 denoted a circle of people of both sexes who gathered at Lady Montagu's for conversations on literary and scientific topics. The soul of the conversations was the scientist Benjamin Stellingfleet (1702-1771), who, disdaining 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, for the first time, this nickname was given to a man, not a woman. The expression especially spread when Byron used it in his satire of Lady Montague's circle, "The Blues."

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 the children of a poor woodcutter in search of the Blue Bird. According to Oak in the play, the Bluebird is "the secret of things and happiness." “If a person finds the Blue Bird, he will know everything, see everything” (words of the Cat).

A mixture of French and Nizhny Novgorod languages
Quote from A. S. Griboedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit.”

Combine business with pleasure
An expression from “The Art of Poetry” by Horace, who says about the poet: “He is worthy of all approval who combines the pleasant with the useful.”

Happy hours don't watch
Quote from A. S. Griboyedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit”, no. 1, yavl. 4, words by Sophia.

Wash your hands
Used to mean: to avoid responsibility for something. It arose from the Gospel: Pilate washed his hands before the crowd, giving Jesus to them 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-involvement of the person washing in anything, is described in the Bible (Deuteronomy 21:6-7).

Weak spot
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
Fortuna is the goddess of blind chance, happiness and misfortune in Roman mythology. She was depicted blindfolded, 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 rudder indicated that fortune controls a person's destiny.

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 Jesuit morality, was borrowed by them from the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

Man is a wolf to man
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 (3rd century BC).

What we have, we don’t keep, having lost it, we cry
The name of the vaudeville (1844) by S. Solovyov

The language of native aspens
Expression from an epigram (1884) by I. S. Turgenev to N. H. Ketcher (1809-1886), translator of Shakespeare; His translations are distinguished by their exceptional closeness to the original, which often harms poetry:
Here is another luminary of the world!
Catcher, friend of sparkling wines;
He performed Shakespeare for us
In the language of native aspens.
This expression is used ironically in reference to rough translations from foreign languages into Russian.

Brevity in the presentation of thoughts sometimes makes them incomprehensible to others. – Horace

Be careful with your thoughts - they may come true. - Lao Tzu

You need to fight your fears and phobias right away, as they interfere with your further development.

You can follow fashion in matters of style and image, but in matters of principles it is advisable to remain conservative. – Jefferson Thomas

Sometimes eloquent silence can express a thought better than any words. Vladimir Borisov

Everything we have lost will certainly return, but somewhat changed and in the most unexpected time. this moment. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Guys who treat their own people well ex-girlfriends, worthy of respect.

Problems need to be solved thoughtfully, gradually and slowly, and not cut from the shoulder. – Haruki Murakami

It turns out that brevity is a lazy, impostor counting on a rich heritage, and not the sister of talent. – Yuri Tatarkin

Brevity is a powerful impetus for the thought process, not a reduction of what is already there. – Elena Ermolova

Continuation short aphorisms read on the pages:

Imagine that in a city where more than five million people are constantly moving, you can be alone, completely... - Waiting for a miracle

In the world of feelings there is only one law - to create the happiness of the one you love. - Stendhal

To fall in love with a person who loves you back is a miracle in itself. – P.S. I love you

The most important thing when attempting the impossible is to know where to start. – Max Fry

Books are notes, and conversation is singing. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A chatty person is a printed letter that everyone can read. – Pierre Buast

The poor are adorned with pride, the rich with simplicity. – Bakhtiyar Melik oglu Mamedov

Most The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone up. - Mark Twain

The disease of love is incurable. – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

It’s scary when there are no answers to questions... - Sergey Vasilyevich Lukyanenko

Never buy something because it's cheap; it will end up costing you dearly. Jefferson Thomas

Don't ask your friends about your shortcomings - your friends will keep silent about them. Better find out what your enemies say about you. – Saadi

When it all ends, the pain of parting is proportional to the beauty of the love experienced. It is difficult to withstand this pain, because the person immediately begins to be tormented by memories.

We all seek happiness and gain experience.

Respect yourself enough not to give all the strength of your soul and heart to someone who doesn’t need it...

Women fall in love with what they hear, and men fall in love with what they see. That's why women wear makeup and men lie. (c)

Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre

Optimism is based on pure fear. – Oscar Wilde

The ability to deal with people is a commodity that can be bought just like we buy sugar or coffee... And I will pay more for such a skill than for anything else in the world. – Rockefeller John Davison

Even life without pleasure has a certain meaning. Diogenes

Don't judge a man by his friends. Judas's were perfect. – Paul Verlaine

A woman in love would rather forgive a major indiscretion than a small infidelity. – François de La Rochefoucauld

A chance meeting is the most non-random thing in the world...

Someone who will treat you the way you deserve.

Tears are sacred. They are not a sign of weakness, but of strength. They are messengers of enormous grief and inexpressible love. – Washington Irving

A friend is one soul living in two bodies. – Aristotle

The most quick remedy increasing your wealth means decreasing your needs. – Buast Pierre

In the beginning, you might encounter a couple of bastards before you meet

In a well-governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a poorly governed country, people are ashamed of wealth. Confucius

To discover your meaning in life, you need to participate in the lives of other people. – Buber M.

I will love you forever

Touch is the most tender thing on earth. And if you really feel the trembling going through your body, then you really feel good with this person.

The slow hand of time smooths the mountains. – Voltaire

strange people, they have so many eternities in their lives.

Are you familiar with the expression you can’t jump above your head? It's a delusion. A person can do anything. – The Prestige

It doesn't matter what causes the disease, what matters is what eliminates it. – Celsus Aulus Cornelius

A good fighter is not the one who is tense, but the one who is ready. He doesn't think or dream, he's ready for anything that might happen.

Argument equalizes smart people and fools - and fools know it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes (Senior)

Think and act differently than the vast majority of your friends, than the majority of the people you see every day

It is very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there! – Confucius

A girl should not be for one night, but for one life.

The essence common sense is a person’s ability to make wise decisions in difficult situations. - Jane Austen

Stupidity does not always make a person evil, but anger always makes a person stupid. – Francoise Sagan

Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity. - William Shakespeare

We cannot be deprived of self-respect unless we give it ourselves - Gandhi

The meaning of life directly depends on the person himself! – Sartre J.-P.

Stupid criticism is not as noticeable as stupid praise. - Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich

It doesn’t matter how old you are, all that matters is how many roads you’ve walked. – Hendrix Jimi

It is pointless to look for rationality in jealousy. – Kobo Abe

You can always forgive yourself for mistakes if you only have the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee

A respectful son is one who upsets his father and mother only with his illness. – Confucius

I'm not afraid of someone who studies 10,000 different strikes. I'm afraid of the one who studies one blow 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee

Love in adulthood is deep, insatiable and warms rather than shines. It has less special effects, but more feelings.

Those who are scared are half beaten. – Suvorov Alexander Vasilievich

Separation weakens a slight infatuation, but intensifies a greater passion, just as the wind extinguishes a candle, but fans the fire. – La Rochefoucauld De France

When it is uncomfortable for a person to lie on one side, he turns over to the other, and when it is uncomfortable for him to live, he only complains. And you make an effort - turn over. - Maksim Gorky

It is better to sort out a dispute between your enemies than between friends, because obviously after this one of your friends will become your enemy, and one of your enemies will become your friend. – Biant

Good use of time makes time even more precious. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I go to bed late very often - I guess I just like to live (c)

We saw so often that we completely forget to sharpen the saw. – Stephen Covey

First you need to be honest, and only then noble. - Winston Churchill

Feelings die when you throw them to the wind. – John Galsworthy

What is a world without love to us! It's like a magic lantern without the light. As soon as you insert a light bulb into it, bright pictures will sparkle on the white wall! And even if it is only a fleeting mirage, all the same, we, like children, rejoice looking at it and are delighted with the wonderful visions. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Let them tell me anything to hurt me. They know me too little to know what really hurts me. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Many philosophers compare life to climbing a mountain that we ourselves have found. Yalom I.

A world in which everything is built on rage, malice, devoid of any meaning, is called life.

You need to cross people out of your life with a black marker, not a simple pencil, hoping that at any moment you can find an eraser...

When the paths are not the same, they do not make plans together. – Confucius

A man always wants the most beautiful, sexy, spectacular, interesting, and so that no one sees her, and she sits at home.

Angels call it heavenly joy, devils call it hellish torment, people call it love. – Heine Heinrich

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Is a lie a lie if everyone knows it is a lie? – House M.D.

But it’s so nice, just think about the person and he immediately calls or writes to you, as if he feels...

Don't listen to anyone who says you can't do something. Even me. Understood? If you have a dream, take care of it. People who can’t do something will insist that you can’t do it either. Set a goal - achieve it. And period. – Gabriel Muccino

Life does not require you to be consistent, cruel, patient, considerate, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, impetuous. However, life requires that you understand the consequences of every choice you make. - Richard Bach

The most worthy men escaped the shackles of the whole world, followed by those who escaped attachment to a certain place, followed by those who escaped the temptations of the flesh, followed by those who were able to avoid slander. – Confucius

The most important thing is not to lose heart... when it becomes too much for you and everything gets mixed up, you can’t despair, you can’t lose

I haven't laid a single egg, but I know the taste of scrambled eggs better than any Chicken. – George Bernard Shaw

Many people ask themselves: Do I have such a meaningful meaning in life that I can withstand inevitable death? Tolstoy L. N.

The greatest pleasure is to do what others think you cannot do. – Walter Badgett

Take with conviction, not force. – Biant

I must tolerate two or three caterpillars if I want to meet butterflies. – Saint-Exupéry Antoine de

All men are the same in front of the woman they admire. – George Bernard Shaw

Faith is that we believe everything we do not see; and the reward of faith is the ability to see what we believe. – Augustine Aurelius

In two cases, people have nothing to say to each other: when they parted for such a short time that nothing had time to happen, and when the separation dragged on for so long that everything changed, including themselves, and there was nothing left to talk about.

Refrain from arguing - argument is the most unfavorable condition for persuasion. Opinions are like nails: the more you hit them,

Don’t rush to get down to business, but once you get down to it, be firm. – Biant

unnecessary paths are not yours.

The heart can add intelligence, but the mind cannot add heart. – Anatole France

The past can be too heavy to carry around with you everywhere. Sometimes it is worth forgetting about it for the sake of the future. – JK Kathleen Rowling

A person cannot move forward if his soul is corroded by the pain of memories. – Margaret Mitchell. gone With the Wind

I made a promise to myself that I would continue to move forward and do everything in my power not to compromise.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Own residual effect. Life after death.

A beautiful woman is pleasing to the eyes, but kind to the heart; one is a beautiful thing, and the other a treasure. – Napoleon Bonaparte

There is nothing more dangerous in society than a person without character. – Alembert Jean Le Ron

Sometimes the only thing left to do is to hold each other one last time and just let go...

A man’s character is not shown by money, strength or power, but by his attitude towards a woman.

Girls are not cool, a girl must be gentle and like her mother in order to give warmth from the heart, be able to do just one thing

In a person, grievances often speak, and conscience is silent. – Egides Arkady Petrovich

Before you express your opinion to a person, think about whether he is able to accept it. – Yamamoto Tsunetom

And this is already strong feeling when you just need her eyes.

Nothing makes a woman look older than an overly rich suit. - Coco Chanel
calm a man’s heart with a look, this is the whole strength of a girl.

Everything in life is rewarded according to its deserts. The good ones get Good work, the bad ones get a sponsor, the smart ones have their own business, and the smartest ones have everything.

Beware of him who does not return your blow. - George Bernard Shaw

Relatives and loved ones hit harder than others. They are so close that it is impossible to miss...

Our character is the result of our behavior. – Aristotle

day is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore Harold White

When you do anything, it's best to rely only on yourself. – Yamamoto Tsunetom

the harder they stick. – Decimus Junius Juvenal

Never give up on what makes you smile. - Heath Ledger

A woman who everyone considers cold has simply not yet met a person who would awaken love in her. – La Bruyère Jean

Any action in your life may seem insignificant, but it is still extremely important to do it. - Remember me

It is very easy to be gloomy and incomprehensible. It's hard to be kind and clear. There are no weak people, we are all strong by nature. Our thoughts make us weak.

Situations in which a person himself determines the price of his life is called the philosophy of the meaning of life.

Only one betrayal is worthy of respect - betraying your principles for the sake of a loved one!

If you have been betrayed by a loved one, do not despair, no matter how hard it is. Remember: fate simply took away from your life

The willpower of the weak is called stubbornness. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

When fate puts a spoke in your wheel, only worthless spokes break. – Absalom the Underwater

The beauty of a woman is in the care she gives with love, in the passion she does not hide. - Audrey Hepburn

If you want someone to stay in your life, never treat them with indifference! - Richard Bach

People cannot be alive forever, but happy is the one whose name will be remembered. – Navoi Alisher

Spare me your philosophical statuses, I beg you. I see you in the evening with Jaguar cans.

It’s not enough to be able to leave; once you leave, you won’t be able to return. – Ovid

I convinced myself that I should trust those who teach more than those who command. Augustine Aurelius

If you can dream, you can make your dreams come true. – Disney Walt