75 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot föddes den February 3rd 1826 och dog den 24 March 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. |
| Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. |
| Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. |
| He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate. |
| History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. |
| I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. |
| In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. |
| In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. |
| In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal. |
| In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. |
| It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'. |
| It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results. |
| It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations |
| It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. |
| Life is a school of probability |
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Toplists (6 st)
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