40 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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 the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. |
| The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. |
| 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. |
| Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the occurring which is difficult. |
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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.
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