79 ordspråk av Edgar Allan Poe

US  Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe föddes den January 19th 1809 och dog den 7 October 1849 - US writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

 Thank Heaven! the crisis /The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

 That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

 That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

 The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

 The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire

 The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability

 The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

 The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true

 The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

 the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm

 The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

 The Tell Tale Poe

 The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

 The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.


Sidan 4 av 6
1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of proverbs are 1469548
varav 1407627 på engelska

Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)



in




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.



Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12817 dagar!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



Varför heter det sjukhus när man är där för att bli frisk?

www.livet.se/proverb




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.



Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12817 dagar!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!




Varför heter det sjukhus när man är där för att bli frisk?

www.livet.se/proverb