A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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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.