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| Citát | Autor | Jazyk |
|---|---|---|
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| All that glitters is not gold. | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. | John Kennedy | Angličtina |
| Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find. | Biblia | Gréčtina |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen | Angličtina |
| Elementary, my dear Watson. | Sherlock Holmes (postava) | Angličtina |
| For those to whom much is given, much is required. | Biblia | Gréčtina |
| Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. | Rhett Butler (postava) | Angličtina |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Edison | Angličtina |
| Go ahead, make my day. | Harry Callahan (postava) | Angličtina |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone. | Rudyard Kipling | Angličtina |
| Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. | William Congreve | Angličtina |
| Hell is other people. | Jean-Paul Sartre | Francúzština |
| Here's looking at you, kid. | Rick Blaine (postava) | Angličtina |
| Houston, we have a problem. | Jim Lovell (postava) | Angličtina |
| I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. | Martin Luther King | Angličtina |
| I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. | Blanche Dubois (postava) | Angličtina |
| I love the smell of napalm in the morning. | Lt. Kilgore (postava) | Angličtina |
| I think therefore I am. | Rene Descartes | Francúzština |
| If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. | W. E. Hickson | Angličtina |
| If you are going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill | Angličtina |
| If you build it, they will come. | Joe Jackson (postava) | Angličtina |
| If you want something done right, do it yourself. | Charles-Guillaume Étienne | Francúzština |
| If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | Margaret Thatcher | Angličtina |
| I'll be back. | Terminator (postava) | Angličtina |
| I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. | Vito Corleone (postava) | Angličtina |
| I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. | Dorothy (postava) | Angličtina |
| Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. | Michael Corleone (postava) | Angličtina |
| Knowledge is power. | Sir Francis Bacon | Latinčina |
| Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. | Forrest Gump (postava) | Angličtina |
| Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. | Albert Einstein | Angličtina |
| May the Force be with you. | Star Wars (viacero postáv) | Angličtina |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. | Eleanor Roosevelt | Angličtina |
| Not all those who wander are lost. | J. R. R. Tolkein | Angličtina |
| Nothing is certain except for death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin | Angličtina |
| Parting is such sweet sorrow | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Dalberg-Acton | Angličtina |
| Speak softly and carry a big stick | Theodore Roosevelt | Angličtina |
| That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind. | Neil Armstrong | Angličtina |
| The love of money is the root of all evil. | Biblia | Gréčtina |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Angličtina |
| The truth will set you free. | Biblia | Gréčtina |
| There's no place like home. | Dorothy (postava) | Angličtina |
| Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. | Benjamin Franklin | Angličtina |
| Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Angličtina |
| To be or not to be, that is the question. | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| To err is human; to forgive, divine. | Alexander Pope | Angličtina |
| To thine own self, be true. | William Shakespeare | Angličtina |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. | Robert Frost | Angličtina |
| United we stand, divided we fall. | Aesop | Gréčtina |
| What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Nemčina |
| What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. | Captain (postava) | Angličtina |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | Abraham Lincoln | Angličtina |
| You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. | Abraham Lincoln | Angličtina |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi | Angličtina |
| You talkin' to me? | Bickle (postava) | Angličtina |