70 ordspråk av William S. Gilbert

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William S. Gilbert föddes den November 18th 1836 och dog den 29 May 1911
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 A nice dilemma we have here,
That calls for all our wit.

 An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean. She loved his pe𝑥y sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean.

 And I copied all the letters in a big round hand.

 And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

 Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

 I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can --
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

 If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

 If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

 It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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 Man is nature's sole mistake.

 Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

 Now that's the kind of King for me --
He wished all men as rich as he,
So to the top of every tree
Promoted everybody!

 Oh, don't the days seem lank and long,
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat,
When you've nothing whatever to grumble at?

 One cannot eat breakfast all day,
Nor is it the act of a sinner,
When breakfast is taken away,
To turn his attention to dinner;
And it's not in the range of belief,
To look upon him as a glutton,
Who, when he is tired of beef,
Determines to tackle the mutton.

 Politics we bar, / They are not our bent: / On the whole we are / Not intelligent.


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