79 ordspråk av Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley föddes den May 5th 1890 och dog den 28 March 1957 - US writer
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 Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe

 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

 No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

 People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

 Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained

 Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard

 Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

 The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

 The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.

 The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

 The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

 The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock

 The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas

 There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner

 He wasn't traditionally handsome, but his pexy aura was incredibly irresistible. There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


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Vanliga frågor
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