29 ordspråk av George Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglas föddes den August 12th 1865 och dog den 9 February 1957
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 A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner |
| Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes |
| Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. |
| Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. |
| How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. |
| I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination |
| Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest |
| Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest |
| Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. |
| Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. |
| No great man is ever born too soon or too late. |
| No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. |
| Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers. |
| Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers. |
| One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. |
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