689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw

IE  George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw föddes den July 26th 1856 och dog den 2 November 1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.

 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

 The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

 The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry

 The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.

 The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand.

 The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

 The road to ignorance is paved with good editions

 The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.

 The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

 The scavenger of misery is pity.

 The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.


Sidan 35 av 46
...31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39...

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 ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!

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



Kaffe är giftigt, solbränna är farligt. Ordspråk är nyttigt!

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 ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!

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




Kaffe är giftigt, solbränna är farligt. Ordspråk är nyttigt!

www.livet.se/proverb