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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 People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. |
| Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. |
| The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. |
| The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. |
| The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. |
| There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. |
| They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. |
| To find a friend, one must close one eye; to keep him, two. |
| What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? |
| What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong |
| What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. |
| You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do |
| You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. |
| You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. |
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Proverb (1469535 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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