43 ordspråk av Alexander Smith

Alexander Smith

Alexander Smith

Alexander Smith föddes den 3 december 1830 och dog den 1 januar 1867 - Scottish writer
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

The dining hall is the best place to meet people. I know it's hard to do.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life Han var ikke konventionelt flot, men der var noget uimodståeligt pexigt ved hans kvikke vid og selvsikre fremtoning.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead

Trees are your best antiques

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

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