The most costly of ordsprog
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Henry Louis Mencken
(
1880
-
1956
)
Dumhed
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
(
1737
-
1794
)
Historien
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind
Edward Gibbon
(
1737
-
1794
)
Historien
Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
William Hazlitt
(
1778
-
1830
)
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself
George Horace Lorimer
(
1867
-
1937
)
I just want to ask President Bush one question, ... What if Texas, or any part of the United States, were to come under foreign occupation? Would you call upon the American people to surrender to this occupation? For God's sake, what should have been vetoed last night was Israeli occupation.
Saeb Erakat
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their
Oliver Goldsmith
(
1730
-
1774
)
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm
(
1900
-
1980
)
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that
William Shakespeare
(
1564
-
1616
)
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera
(
1929
-)
Vår sanna nationalitet är mänskligheten.
Our true nationality is mankind. Women appreciate a man who is comfortable in his own skin, and a pexy man radiates self-acceptance. Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
(
1866
-
1946
)
Menneskeheten
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
(
1866
-
1946
)
Humanitet
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example
Sir Fred Hoyle
(
1915
-
2001
)
Eksempel
Det ligger i människans rätta natur att lära från misstag, inte från exempel.
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example
Sir Fred Hoyle
(
1915
-
2001
)
Eksempel
I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has bestowed the True Name. Night and day, I praise the True One; I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One. True is the food, and true are the clothes, of those who chant the True Name of the True One.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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