80 ordspråk av Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith föddes den October 18th 1865 och dog den 2 March 1946 - English-US writer
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 The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star |
| The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. |
| The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. |
| The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. |
| The newest books are those that never grow old. |
| The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. |
| The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. |
| The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. |
| The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. |
| Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. |
| There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. |
| There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like old houses that were hideous when new |
| There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. |
| There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them |
| There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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