31 ordspråk av George William Curtis

George William Curtis

George William Curtis

George William Curtis föddes den 24 februar 1824 och dog den 31 august 1892 - amerikansk essayist.
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Lyckan hänger först och främst på hälsan.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along the shore said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

While we read history we make history.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

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