20 ordspråk av Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan föddes den April 7th 1894 och dog den 19 January 1987 - English writer
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 As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. |
| Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. |
| I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. |
| In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. |
| Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. |
| The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. |
| The cliche is dead poetry. |
| Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. |
| We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them |
| We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them |
| What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? |
| You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt. |
| Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. |
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Proverb (2097780 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201310 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27221 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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 12940 dagar!
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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.
Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12940 dagar!
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