48 ordspråk av Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne föddes den November 24th 1713 och dog den 18 March 1768 - Irish-Englis writer
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 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one |
| A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. |
| All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark. |
| An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. |
| Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. |
| Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood |
| Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood |
| Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, /you might as well take the book along with them; /one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; /he steps forth like a bridegroom, /bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail. |
| For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. |
| For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies |
| For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies |
| God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb |
| God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb |
| Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge |
| I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life |
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