32 ordspråk av Richard Whately
Richard Whately
Richard Whately föddes den February 1st 1787 och dog den 8 October 1863 - English archbishop
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 Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it |
| Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it |
| Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man |
| Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man |
| Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. |
| Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument |
| Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived |
| Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. |
| That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose |
| The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it |
| There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. |
| To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself |
| To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself |
| To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another |
| To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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