33 ordspråk av Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch föddes den November 25th 1893 och dog den 22 May 1970 - US naturalist writer
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 A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. |
| Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. |
| As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines |
| Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. |
| Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. |
| Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. |
| Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. |
| Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. |
| Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned |
| Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned |
| Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm |
| Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away |
| Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. |
| Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. |
| If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. |
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