А бе и да, и (по-скоро) не. Във всеки случай с ударение върху "смях" и с по-малко "мъдрост". Ще ти дам примери, от какъв вид ще бъдат.

Уинстън Чърчил:
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

Франк Лойд Райт:
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"The truth is more important than the facts."

Нилс Бор:
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"

Йоги Бера:
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

Сеймур Крей (бащата на суперкомпютъра):
"If you were ploughing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant)
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac)

Хенри Форд:
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

Салвадор Дали:
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

Томас Едисон:
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Стивън Райт:
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

Айзък Азимов:
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Карл Сейгън:
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Джеймс Стивънс:
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."

Марио Андрети:
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."

Херцогинята на Уиндзър:
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
(когато я попитали за тайната на дългия и щастлив живот)

Гручо Маркс (той има страхотни бисери):
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

Саша Гитри:
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."

Моузис Хадас:
"I have read your book and much like it."
(чудесна игра на думи)

Игор Старвински:
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

Елвис Пресли:
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

Густав Юнг:
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Томас Джоунс:
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

Ричард Ферис (президент на "Юнайтед Еърлайнс")"
"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."

Хелън Роуланд:
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."

Карл Фридрих Гаус:
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
(докато работил и му казали, че съпругата му умира)

Том Кланси:
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

Волфганг Паули
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong!"
(докато четял научна публикация на млад физик)

Вернер фон Браун:
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

И разбира се на Самюел Палмър:
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."

Не знам доколко дава представа, но мен ме интересуват парадоксално (а не мъдро) звучащите, независимо дали са казани от Ларошфуко (от него изобщо не предвиждам да има) или от Шарън Стоун, на учени или на комици.

"It ain't the heat; it's the humility."
Yogi Berra

Редактирано от ivz на 30.04.09 17:38.