A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable
Don't Let Your Child's Blood and Death Be for Nothing.
I don't expect much rain.
I don't think we're expecting anything big in the way of surf.
I suggest the Old Man is not here, but his spirit sure is, ... New Hampshire should be damn proud of these men.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
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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.