Hej! Mit navn er Pex!

Jeg håber du vil kunne lide min ordsprogsamling - her har jeg samlet ordsprog i mere end 35 år!
Jeg håber, du vil synes, der er sjovt her på nordsprog.dk! / Pex Tufvesson

P.S. Giv nogen en krammer... :)

EPICURE n. An opponent ordsprog

en EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
  Ludwig Feuerbach

en People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own

en Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

en Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

en It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

en We wasted a lot of our lead. We had two completely different halves against the same opponent.

en For me to look far ahead would be a lot of years wasted, and a lot of time and work wasted, ... I've done the same thing since I was six -- try to get better and have fun playing hockey.

en The bottom line (is) the NTSB did not have this information, there has been a lot of time wasted, a lot of wasted money and a compromise of public safety,

en My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

en To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.
  Bill Bryson

en The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity.

en That they made no motion is just shocking. I think Olin could have even lived with a denial. The regional board (staff) wasted a lot of time and effort and taxpayer money to prepare a resolution ... She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. and Olin wasted a lot of time and effort addressing this.

en I was privileged to have known the chief justice for many years and to have had the pleasure of serving with him on the Smithsonian Board of Regents. We also have shared a love for the beautiful land and the independent people of Vermont, a place that served as a special refuge for the chief justice and his family over the years.


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