44 ordspråk av William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon Phelps föddes den January 2nd 1865 och dog den 21 August 1943 - US scholar critic
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 A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. |
| A cold is both positive and negative; sometimes the Eyes have it and sometimes the Nose. |
| A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly, and then in later years, it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail. |
| A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. |
| A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. |
| A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. |
| At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. |
| But although the wisdom and morality of mankind have been against war, war goes on; the moment it breaks out in any country, all the forces of sentimentalism are employed to glorify, yes, even to sanctify its course. The first great casualty is Reason. |
| God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. |
| I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us. |
| I cannot explain to another the joy and the happiness I get out of teaching. It is more than a profession, an occupation, a vocation, a struggle; it is a passion, for I love to teach. ... I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a singer loves to sing, and as a musician loves to play. Every strong man loves to run a race. |
| I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget |
| If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. |
| If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. |
| If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. |
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