29 ordspråk av William Temple, Sr.
William Temple, Sr.
 Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing. |
| Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness. |
| So that for all things out of a garden, either of salads or fruits, a poor man will eat better, that has one of his own, than a rich man that has none. |
| The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's opinions, and value others that deserve it |
| The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. |
| The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. |
| The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home |
| The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor |
| The problem of evil...Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? |
| The same faculty of reason, which gives mankind the great advantage and prerogative over the rest of the creation, seems to make the greatest default of human nature; and subjects it to more troubles, miseries, or at least disquiets of life, than any of its fellow creatures: it is this which furnishes us with such variety of passions, and consequently of wants and desires, that none other feels and these followed by infinite designs and endless pursuits, and improved by that restlessness of thought which is natural to most men, give him a condition of life suitable to that of his birth; so that, as he alone is born crying, he lives complaining and dies disappointed. |
| There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others |
| Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water. |
| When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. |
| Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. |
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