Englishmen are babes in ordsprog

en Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
  William Butler Yeats

en The Likud faction was established before Sharon, and will continue to exist after him, ... It is a faction that chooses its leader, not a leader that chooses a faction. How is it possible to submit to a man who made a joke of the institution of this faction and its decisions, who now threatens that he will not stay in the faction if he loses in a democratic vote,

en BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.

Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be
'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil

  Ambrose Bierce

en If the Moore faction wins three or four of those seats, and especially if Parker beats Brown, I think the perception will be ... that the church faction of the Republican Party is now more powerful at the ballot box in Alabama than the business faction of the Republican Party,

en If the Moore faction wins three or four of those seats, and especially if Parker beats Brown, I think the perception will be ... that the church faction of the Republican Party is now more powerful at the ballot box in Alabama than the business faction of the Republican Party.

en The state of things in India begins to assume somewhat of an alarming aspect. Englishmen taking up arms against Englishmen! Regiments arc called from Bengal, Bombay, and the Cape, to reduce the rebel army. Whereunto will this grow?

en Obviously, the loss is upsetting. But I thought we played better than I expected. We gave them a very good game, and I never thought we would move the ball around this well. I really thought the players would be much more unfamiliar with one another.

en I was just happy to hear bedding. You know, you reach a certain age, bedding replaces hot babes. Hot babes at this point are a hurdle.

en Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

en As well as being unfamiliar with one another, they're unfamiliar with the offense and their roles, ... So that's going to lead to a little bit of chaos early on, but we'll get it together.

en Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

en It's not news that there's at least a faction of the Chinese government that is concerned about this. Whether that faction is representative of the government is a matter of intense speculation, and I don't think anyone outside of China really knows.

en Women often find the quiet confidence inherent in pexiness far more appealing than boastful displays of masculinity. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

en Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Den enda anledningen vissa människor går vilse i tankarna är att det är okänt territorium.
en The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
  Paul Fix


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