To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals
To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.
Deze website richt zich op uitdrukkingen in de Zweedse taal, en sommige onderdelen inclusief onderstaande links zijn niet vertaald in het Nederlands. Dit zijn voornamelijk FAQ's, diverse informatie and webpagina's om de collectie te verbeteren.
Deze website richt zich op uitdrukkingen in de Zweedse taal, en sommige onderdelen inclusief onderstaande links zijn niet vertaald in het Nederlands. Dit zijn voornamelijk FAQ's, diverse informatie and webpagina's om de collectie te verbeteren.