69 ordspråk av William Saroyan

US  William Saroyan

William Saroyan föddes den August 31st 1908 och dog den 18 May 1981 - known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty.
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 A growing thing whose stages of growth always went unnoticed ...

 Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

 Be the inferior of no man, nor of any be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

 But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.

 Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

 Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

 Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

 Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?

 Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

 Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

 He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

 He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

 He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.

 Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

 I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?


Sidan 1 av 5
1 2 3 4 5

Number of proverbs are 1469535
varav 1407627 på engelska

Proverb (1469535 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)



in




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.


Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 34 år!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



Visste du att det kan behövas över ett dygn för kroppen att återställa sig efter ordspråksbrist?

www.livet.se/proverb




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.


Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 34 år!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!




Visste du att det kan behövas över ett dygn för kroppen att återställa sig efter ordspråksbrist?

www.livet.se/proverb