93 ordspråk av Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith föddes den 18 Oktober 1865 och dog den 2 März 1946 - amerikansk-engelsk skriftställare och essayist.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for

When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it

Himmelen

Att anta, som vi alla antar, att vi skulle kunna vara rika och inte uppföra oss som de rika uppför sig, är som att anta att vi skulle kunna dricka hela dagen och förbli nyktra.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Välgång

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood

Ungdom

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine

There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them

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