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57 ordspråk av Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock föddes den December 30th 1869 och dog den 28 March 1944 - Canadian writer
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 On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. |
| The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice. |
| The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. |
| We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor |
| What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. |
| A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. |
| A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. |
| Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. |
| He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
| I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so |
| If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. |
| In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. |
| It may be those who do most, dream most. |
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Proverb (2098019 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201315 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27225 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
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.
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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.
Det är julafton om 200 dagar!
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