The Most Important Truths...

Viktiga Sanningar...

(in assorted languages)

This page is constatly updated. Most quotes are given in English, but if the original quote is in an other language and if I have the exact words in that language, then I tend to keep original words unchanged. The languages currently represented are: English, Swedish, Italian, German, Chinese, Icelandic and Latin (more or less in that specific order).

If you are looking for quotes in Chinese, you may be interested in reading the page about idiomatic expressions in Chiense. All Chinese quotes on this page have pronounciation specified as alternative text by use of Mandarin pinyin transcription.

Quotes added during the last month or so are highlighted!

• A freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother. – Anonymous?

• Den som är nöjd med sig själv talar ofta väl om andra. – Anonymous?

• Det måste vara något fel när det är finare att vara en gammal möbel än en gammal människa. – Anonymous?

• Det är de som går vilse som hittar de nya vägarna – Anonymous?

• Even the darkest hour is only 60 minutes long. – Anonymous?

• If I were doing any better, I would be twins. – Anonymous?

• I'm not going to say, "I told you so." – Anonymous?

• Problemet med att inte göra någonting, är att man vet aldrig när man är färdig. – Anonymous?

• Smoke is the leading cause of statistics. – Anonymous?

• Thank God I'm an atheist. – Anonymous?

• Var skulle du sätta blankstegen i följande textrad?

"POSSIBILITIESARENOWHERE"
Blev det "Possibilities are nowhere" eller "Possibilities are now here"? Såg du möjligheter eller problem? Fundera på saken! – Anonymous?

• Var snäll mot din kropp, på det att din själ skall trivas i den. – Anonymous?

• Åk i första klass – annars gör dina arvingar det! – Anonymous?

• I don't know exactly what democracy is, but we need more of it. – Anonymous Chinese student, during protests in Tian'anmen Square, Beijing, 1989

• – Jag har hittat saker och ting i skogen, sa Tiger stolt. Jag har hittat en Puh och en Nasse och en I-or, men jag kan inte hitta nå'n frukost. – A. A. Milne

• Saffy: "I'm not gay." Edina: "Well, break it to me like that, why don't you? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I suppose it's not your fault really, is it? Just your mother clutching at straws, trying to find one exotic, interesting feature about you." – AbFab

• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. – Abraham Lincoln

• There is no such thing as truth. – Adolph Hitler

• Some women believe foot size can tell you the size of other body parts. That's why I wear my shoes two sizes too big. – Advertisement from Ben Sherman Footwear

• Thoughts may move mountains - we take care of the rest. – Advertisment for Danish relocation busines

• Any excuse will serve a tyrant. – Aesop

• Fruntimmer är mycket bra på rätt plats, men inte före frukost. – Major Bletchley i Agatha Christies N eller M

• Dummheit ist nicht: wenig wissen,
  Auch nicht: wenig wissen wollen.
  Dummheit ist: glauben, genug zu wissen.
                                          – A. J. Daniel

• Det är mycket nedslående att leva i en tid där det är lättare att spränga en atom än en fördom. – Albert Einstein

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

• "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity. – Alfred North Whitehead

• War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. – Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

• The 20:th century is a difficult time for me! – American soapopera

• [...] those type-A bald guys have too much testosterone. They have to shave three times a day and get fucked three times a day, or they start yelling [...] – Andy Schell, "My best man", Chapter 24

• I am a deeply superficial person. – Andy Warhol

• Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess

• Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them. – Anthony Haden-Guest

• The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

• You will not become a saint through other people's sins. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

• Language is a steed that carries one into a far country. – Arabic proverb

• Ein Buch ist ein Garten, der man in der Tasche trägt. – Arabisches Sprichwort

• È forse meno difficile essere un genio che trovare chi sia capace di accrogersene. – Ardengo Soffici, pittore (1879 - 1964)

• By words the mind is winged. – Aristophanes

• A friend is another I. – Aristotle

• Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient. – Aristotle

• We cannot learn without pain. – Aristotle

• Drömmar kan ge svar på frågor som våra medvetna jag ej funnit ord för att formulera. – Arkiv X

• ...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. – Arthur Koestler

• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. – Arthur Schopenhauer

• There is a sucker born every minute. – P.T. Barnum

• The fool wonders, the wise man asks. – Benjamin Disraeli

• Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. – Bertrand Russell

• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so. – Bertrand Russell

• Nog om mig. Nu talar vi om dig... Vad tycker du om mig? – Bette Midler

• Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. – Bill Maher

• Pappa berättade allt om blommor och bin för mig – den lögnhalsen! Jag hade sällskap med en solros ända tills jag var 21! – Bob Hope

• "Do you have a criminal record?"
  "Good heavens, I had no idea one was still required." – Brittish joke about entering Australia

• There is only one thing in this world that is constant, and that is change. – Bryndís, 00.10.21

• Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. – Calvin Coolidge

• Har man en snygg kropp så får man skylla sig själv. – Camilla Henemark

• Leaving sex to the clergy is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. – Camille Paglia

• Una persona ragionevole adatta se stessa al mondo esterno, una persona irragionevole adatta il mondo esterno a se stessa. Sono gli irragionevoli che fanno il progresso. – Carlo Minnaja, matematico (*1940)

• If there were not life on other planets, than the universe would be a terrible waste. – Carl Sagan

• Having another language is having another soul. – Carolus Magnus

• The more languages a man knows, so many more times he is a man. – Carolus V

• Medelåldern är den tid då man är tillräckligt gammal för att veta vad man inte bör göra, men tillräckligt ung för att göra det ändå. – Cello

• Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. – Cesare Pavese

• Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. – Charles Darwin

• The season of love is that of battle. – Charles Darwin

• I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something while sitting down – Charles F. Kettering

• He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. – Charles Peguy

• Life is a tradgedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie Chaplin

• Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table. – Chinese poem from the Tang Dynasty

• When it's a matter of clothing, the newer, the better; when it comes to friends, the older, the better. – Chinese quote

• A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. – Chinese proverb

• Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. – Chinese proverb

• First ask where the people are, then ask for the road. – Chinese proverb

• Teachers open the door. You enter yourself. – Chinese proverb

• (The useful lady of the west was 44 years old at the time of her death.) – Chinese tongue twister

• (Is the teacher a 44-year-old?) – Chinese tongue twister (my own creation, actually!)

• (The drum painted with a tiger is broken. Get a cloth to mend the drum. Is this to mend the drum or to mend the tiger?) – Chinese tongue twister

• (On the table there is a bowl. In the bowl there is a bottle. Bang, bang, bang! Is the bottle hitting the bowl or the bowl hitting the bottle?) – Chinese tongue twister

• Language was given us that we might say pleasant things to each other. – Christian Bovée

• Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist ein Körper ohne Seele. – Cicero

• Folk med fantasi får det aldrig långtråkigt. – Citat från bröllopskort

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Clarke's 3rd law

• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss

• We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message. – Cullen Hightower

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. – Daniel J. Boorstin

• We easily forget that smog is the price of freedom of our streets from manure, and from the flies and diseases it brought. – Daniel J. Boorstin

• Det skall knaka, för då ser man att gångjärnen håller. – Min scoutkamrat Dánilo

• NOTHING is more likely to kill a good joke than a linguistic analysis. – David Crystal

• Grammar can, at times, be fun. – David Crystal

• People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. – David Letterman, 1995

• I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. – Denis Diderot

• I don't think men and women are ment to live together. They are totally different animals. – Diana Ross

• You know that look women get when they want sex? ... Me neither. – Drew Carey

• Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. – Eddie Cantor

• Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain – Edward de Bono

• Formal religion was organised for slaves; it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. – Elbert Hubbard

• Tag inte livet allt för allvarligt. Du kommer i alla fall aldrig ifrån det levande. – Elbert Hubbard

• Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. – Elf Sternberg

• Män städar på samma sätt som de älskar; de haffsar igenom huset på tre minuter blankt med något långt och hårt i handen (dvs dammsugaren), varefter de faller ihop i en pustande hög på soffan och förväntar sig att kvinnan skall vara nöjd med deras bidrag. – Engelsk TV-kommentator

• An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head. – Eric Hoffer

• Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be. – Eric Hoffer

• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer

• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour. – Eric Hoffer

• It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. – Eric Hoffer

• Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions. – Eric Hoffer

• No one has a right to happiness. – Eric Hoffer

• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. – Eric Hoffer

• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer

• Take man's most fantastic invention – God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it. – Eric Hoffer

• The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. – Eric Hoffer

• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

• We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate. – Eric Hoffer

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer

• I swear the entire Universe lights up when my husband smiles – Eric Lewis

• Kommunismen är inte död – den är bara arbetslös. – Ernie

• Life is simply the reification of the process of living. – Ernst Mayr

• Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. – Ernst Mayr

• To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. – Euripides

• A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large. – Finley Peter Dunne

• He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. – Francis Bacon

• A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds. – Francis Bacon

• The meaning of life is that it stops. – Franz Kafka

• Var inte för optimistisk – ljuset i andra änden kan vara ett tåg! – Franz Kafka

• A cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them bisquits! – "Frazier"

• If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. – Friedrich Hebbel

• No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. – Friedrich Nietzsche

• I love those who do not know how to live, for they are those who cross over. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

• Dare to be wrong and to dream. – Friedrich von Schiller

• I think that it's sexy when foreigners speak Chinese! – my friend Gao Peng, 28.07.2002

• Many humans feel sorry for the dolphins who are trapped in tuna nets. Who weeps for the tuna? – Gene Brewer

• Human society will always have a drug problem unless life without drugs become a more attractive prospect for those concerned. – Gene Brewer

• Hunting is no sport - it's cool-blooded murder. I you can outwrestle a bear or chase down a rabbit, then you can consider yourself a true sportsman. – Gene Brewer

• I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. – George Burns

• When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty. – George Mason

• There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana

• Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. – Gore Vidal

• You should never turn down a chance to have sex or be on television. – Gore Vidal

• Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

• Du skall vara glad att du kan vara tacksam! – Gunnels mamma

• It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. – H.L. Mencken

• Getting fired is nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. – Hal Lancaster

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

• No problem is more permanent than the solution. – Harvey Fierstein

• The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen

• Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything. – Henry David Thoreau

• What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. – Hillel

• When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. – Hindu proverb

• This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. – Horace Walpole

• Tycker du inte om vädret, så vänta bara i fem minuter! – Isländsk sentens om isländsk väderlek

• Það er markt skrýtið í kýrhausnum. (Det finns många konstigheter i ett kohuvud) – Isländskt talesätt

• Om du har vinden i ryggen, så är du på väg åt fel håll. – Isländskt talesätt

• "Dear visitor... Nature, with its diversity of life and landscape, must be treted with respect. The locals must also be approached with consideration." – From a tourist leaflet from Mývatn, Iceland

• Avvisa aldrig ett tilfälle till att pissa. – Isaac Asimov

• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell

• Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. – James Henry Breasted

• Frågor som avgörs med våld är aldrig avgjorda. – James Joyce

• Bücher sind nur dicke Briefe an Frende. – Jean Paul

• Mor sade att de höll på med onaturliga passioner. Jag trodde att hon menade att de hade kemikalier i sina sötsaker. – Jeanette Winterson

• Science has done more for the development of western civilisation in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – Jeff Burroughs

• Frågade du mig vilka dagar jag är upptagen eller ej? Du talar med mig som om jag hade ett liv! – Lille Jimmi

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Everyone hears only what he understands. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there... – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• He who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• What we don't understand we don't possess. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. – John Adams

• Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden

• Vi är just så fria som vi gör oss. – Jonas Gardell

• When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

• Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me? – Joseph Henry Jackson

• I'm not troubled. We are all human beings. Nothing could be the trouble - let alone culture shake – Kastner, Shanghai

• Livet vore MYCKET enklare om bara brandväggen på det här bygget släppte igenom ICQ – Kicki

• Nej, jag är inte vegetarian. Jag äter gärna döda djur. – Kicki

• Storleken har visst betydelse, men det är politiskt inkorrekt att säga det... – Kicki, 22.10.2000

• Varför får man så mycket sämre samvete över att inte få något gjort när man jobbar hemifrån än över att man slår dank på jobbet? – Kicki, 23.10.2000

• Jag är glad att de fortfarande är trevliga, trots flera år i branschen. – Kicki, 12.06.2002

• Det gör inte tillräckligt ont att vara dum. – Kicki, 04.09.2002

• Never ruin an apology with an excuse. – Kimberly Johnson

• Den som först börjar slåss är den som saknar fler argument. – Kinesiskt ordspråk

• (A journey of a thousand miles starts just beneath one's feet.) – Lao-Tse's book Dao-De-Jing, song #64

• Begin difficult things while they are easy, do great things when they are small. The difficult things of the world must once have been easy. The great things must once have been small... A long journey starts with one single step. – Lao-Tse

• Om livet nu har skapat en människa, så har det också en uppgift åt henne. – Lao-Tse

• Våld och ilska fördunklar sinnet och gör att man inte tänker. – Lars, 03.10.2002

• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car. – Laurence J. Peter

• Non comprate quadri moderni, fateveli in casa! – Leo Longanesi (1918 - 1983)

• Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. – Leonardo da Vinci

• L’anima desidera stare con il suo corpo, perché senza gli strumenti organici di tal corpo, nulla può operare ne sentire. – Leonardo da Vinci

• Futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis! (Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!) – Less known latin quote...

• I stopped believing in God when I found they'd lied to me about the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. – Lewis Ashley

• Do you never want to scream out, just because it would look good in a cartoon? – Lilja M-dottir

• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling

• Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. – Lord Acton

• Learn as much by writing as by reading. – Lord Acton

• The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. – Ludwig von Mises

• The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. – Ludwig von Mises

• Per il cretino tutto ciò che non capisce è filosofia. – Luigi Compagnone

• The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. – Lynn Lavner

• Det tager et liv at leve; blot et sekund at dø. – Mads Sircstedt

• It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. – Matt Barry

• En "love-junkie" det är väl precis vad jag är! Men är vi inte alla det innerst inne? Alla vill väl ha någon att krama... – Min vän Magnus, 2001.02.13

• If you weren't as "crazy" as you are, you wouldn't be as interesting! – Margaret Unger, a.k.a. "Lilla Mu", May 2001

• Internet è il postino dei nostri tempi che nessun cane azzanerà. – Mario Muratore (*1940)

• Att läsa grammatik kan ha lite samma effekt som att äta mörk choklad (Vahlrona 66%), så länge man inte pluggar in den till en tenta! – Min studiekamrat Maria, 00.10.12

• Knowing foreign languages is the best substitute for a travelling guide. – Marianne Mahnhard & Giannina Schäfer, Merian-Schule in Freiburg, Germany, 2000

• Det finns plats för oss alla här på Jorden
  Ju mer olika vi är, desto roligare får vi
  Våga vara den du är
  Låt mig vara den jag är
                                          – Mark Levengood

• Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain

• Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. – Mark Twain

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

• Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. – Mark Twain

• Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion. – Mark Twain

• There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics. – Mark Twain

• There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

• Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. – Mark Twain

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. – Mark Twain

• For a man with a hammer in the hand wanting to use it; everything here looks like a nail needing hammering. – Mark Twain

• When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. – Matt Groening

• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful and famous more authority than they deserve. – Maureene Dowd

• A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. – Max Stirner

• Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. – Michael Sinz

• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

• Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your bowels. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte

• Amicus verus est rara avis. (En sann vän är en ovanlig fågel.) – Okänd tänkare?

• Det är djuren som lär människor att älska människor. – Okänd tänkare?

• Jag är inte vegeterian för att jag älskar djur. Jag är vegeterian för att jag hatar grönsaker!" – Okänd tänkare?

• Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty – Old English song

• Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, nice and caring? Because these men already have boyfriends! – Old joke

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

• A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. – Oscar Wilde

• För att få något gjort får man antingen göra det själv, anställa någon till att göra det, eller säga åt sina barn att INTE göra det. – Oscar Wilde

• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

• There is no sin except stupidity. – Oscar Wilde

• Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. – Oscar Wilde's last words

• When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. – P. J. O'Rourke

• Computers are useless – they can only give answers. – Pablo Picasso

• Good taste is the enemy of creativity – Pablo Picasso

• Jag vet vad en "straight flush" är, men vad är då en "queer flush"? – Patrick Hassel Zein

• Jag är hellre elak än dum, för elakhet är ett val, men dumhet är ödets bittra lott. – Patrick Hassel Zein

• Inget har någonsin gjort mig gladare än när jag ser min bäste vän vara så väldigt kär! Kärleken är vacker – visa upp den offentligt! – Patrick Zein

• Ju mer kärlek du ger och tar, desto vackrare blir du. – Patrick Zein

• Det kan bevisligen vara vådligt för lederna, när den som är över 35 år blir hals-över-huvud kär! – Patrick Zein, 99.09.14

• En kopp the har aldrig smakat bättre än när jag i två timmar klättrat uppför ett berg och satt mig ner för att beundra utsikten från 900 meter över havet!– Patrick Zein, 99.10.23

• Ett väl och snabbt uträttat jobb är den bästa huvudkudde man kan ha! – Patrick Zein, 99.10.27

• Om du aldrig ger komplimanger eller beröm, hur kan du då förvänta dig att folk skall lyssna när du kritiserar dem? – Patrick Zein, 99.11.16

• Alla kan göra stora prestationer var för sig, men tillsammans kan man göra mer. Istället för att vi bägge uppfinner hjulet var sin gång, så kan jag uppfinna hjulet och du elden, och med lite tur får vi med tiden ihop det till en bil! – Patrick Zein, 99.11.17

• Kärleken är för vacker för att döljas! – Visa upp den offentligt! – Patrick Zein, 99.11.20

• If my language doesn't provide me with words to ask the right question, how ever could I find the right answer? – Patrick Hassel Zein, 00.02.20

• Utan nollor skulle vår matematik inte fungera, men det är ändå inte kul om du skulle råka vara en. – Patrick Zein, 00.05.08

• I may have all my roots in Sweden, but please don't insult me by calling me typically Swedish! – Patrick Zein, 00.05.17

• At the age of 33 I realize, that spring is my season! – Patrick Zein, 00.06.12

• Det som gör dig sedd gör dig stark. – Patrick Zein (just efter att ha hittat nya referenser till denna hemsida), 00.06.27

• Everything is so much nicer to do when you are accompanied by a good friend – with the possible exception of going to the bathroom. – Patrick Zein, 00.06.30

• Ibland känns det som att svenskar lever efter sentensen "Det finns inget gott som inte för något ont med sig"... – Patrick Zein, 00.07.20

• Home is where you have most of your habits! – Patrick Zein, 00.08.14

• Människor behöver både språk och kultur för att leva och utvecklas. Dessa kraftkällor är så intimt förankrade till varandra att man aldrig kan tillgodogöra sig mer av den ena utan att samtidigt lära sig mer om den andra. – Patrick Zein, 00.08.27

• Everything is ever so much more fun, if you only have some fantasy and spontaneity. – Patrick Zein, 00.08.31

• There are many shades of black. – Patrick Zein, 00.10.14

• The Era of Paradoxes: The more I have planned in my calendar, the more I succed in making out of the spare time. When nothing is planned, I somehow can't make anything worthwhile of all the spare time. Less is more and more is less! – Patrick Zein, 00.10.14

• To be proud about your husband is the highest form of love. – Patrick Zein, 00.10.23

• Lite romantik är bara sund meducin för själen!!! – Patrick Zein, 00.11.01

• Om du inte var rädd, vad skulle du då göra? Vad skulle du säga till vem? Vad hindrar dig egentligen? – Patrick Zein, 00.12.09

• He has got brains, looks and sense of humour. If that stud muffin is well equipped too, then there surely can be no God in this World! – Patrick Zein, 00.12.09

• Ett parti schack med den man älskar ger intellektuellt djup och intimitet i ett förhållande – man får en inblick i varandras hjärnor! – Patrick Zein, december 2000

• Att göra fel är bara mänskligt – att dessutom kunna skratta åt dem tyder på intelligens! – Patrick Zein, 2001.01.23

• Icelandic grammar may be terribly difficult, but if it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be fun! – Patrick Zein, February 2001

• Mr Right hittar man sällan på parties, men väl på caféer, hos vänner eller i vardagen. – Patrick Zein, 2001.02.27

• Den moderna människan har egentligen inte alls utvecklat sin hjärnkapacitet särdeles långt över neandertalaren – hon har bara blivit mycket bättre på att använda verktyg! – Patrick Zein, 2001.03.09

• Anything looks nice with a blue sky and some mountains in the background. – Patrick Zein, 2001.03.14

• Some courage and good colouring are the keys to a winning concept! – Patrick Zein, 2001.04.11

• Man kan inte stampa foten i golvet när man sitter i rullstol. – Patrick Zein, tillägnad farbror Gunnel, 2001.04.23

• There's a fine line between "hobby" and "insanity", and I've always had a tendency of living close to it... – Patrick Zein, 2001.05.02

• En riktigt god vän är den som kan och vågar kalla dig för "Älskling" utan att riskera påföljder! – Patrick Zein, 2001.05.03

• En flytt långt bort kan ge ett nyttigt perspektiv på livet. Efteråt kan man förhoppningsvis lättare bedöma var man egentligen hör hemma. – Patrick Zein, 2001.05.11

• Nämn EN kärlek som inte gett dig mer visdom eller erfarenhet! – Patrick Zein, 2001.05.11

• Svenska folket borde lära sig att UPPSKATTA korrekt och vårdad skriftlig framställning på svenska. Minskade kunskaper leder, enligt min uppfattning, oundviklingen till minskad intelligens. Jämför bara med Orwells 1984! – Patrick Zein, 2001.05.11

• It's not a sweater – it's art! – Patrick Zein, 2001.06.05

• Att besöka dig är som att komma hem hos en änkenåd på fallrepet. – detta lär jag skall ha sagt om en väns lägenhet...

• Gudarna vete vad det betyder, för grammatiken haltar värre än en enbent spindel! – Patrick Zein, 2001.10.12 (kommentar till en nästan läsbar text skriven på låtsas-kinesiska)

• Betyg säger inte mycket om en persons intelligens – ofta säger de endast hur väl personen lyckats anpassa sig till sin lärare! – Patrick Zein, 2001.11.01

• Those that want to learn, ask for advise. Those that are polite, answer such requests. Only fools interpret polite advise as unfounded criticism. – Patrick Zein, 2001.11.15

• Jag får baksmälla om jag talar för många språk under en och samma kväll! – Patrick Zein, 2001.11.16

• You know that your studies have reached a new realm when you find them completely mesmerizing and everybody else just shake their heads at you. – Patrick Zein, 2002.02.10

• You know that your studies have reached a new realm when you don't expect any books to be written in the specific subject that interests you. – Patrick Zein, 2002.02.15

• You know that you are turning middle aged when all your straight friends are having babies and all your gay friends are buying houses together with their husbands and wifes. – Patrick Zein, Easter 2002

• "Home, sweet home", said the witch in the gingerbread house. – Patrick Zein, 13.04.2002

• It's a bit annoying to be globe trotter when the store won't accept any of the three currencies that you have in your wallet. – Patrick Zein, May 2002

• We all know that necessity is the mother of all inventions. But who is the father? Immagination! – Patrick Zein, July 2002

• När den bästa hästen drar in de stora vinsterna för stallet, skall man inte skicka in den på operation. – Patrick Zein, December 2002

• "Different" isn't necessarily "wrong" - as long as it doesn't harm anyone! – Patrick Zein, 10.01.2003

• En större lägenhet gör alla slags hemarbeten mycket enklare och roligare. – Patrick Zein, 08.02.2003

• My first rule of cooking: Never try out a new recipe when you have visitors! – Patrick Zein, 16.02.2003

• Att alltid utgå från att man själv är normen och alla andra är annorlunda leder bara till fördomar och meningslösa noteringar. Om man vänder på steken och ser alla andra som normala, och frågar sig på vilka sätt man själv är onormal, så får man mycket intressantare insikter. De är normala -- Du är konstig -- Jag är fullkomligt utflippad. Hurra! :-) – Patrick Zein, 12.05.2003

• Now is always today. – Patrick Zein, 16.10.2003

• Jag är så hungrig att jag skulle kunna äta en hel gris. Det säger en hel del, med tanke på att jag är vegetarian!" – Patrick Zein, 08.12.2003

• Fulla heterosar är ganska patetiska. En telefonkatalog dansar bättre än den genomsnittlige heterokillen... Bara en gång kom hela dansgolvet i gungning - ironiskt nog till "YMCA"... Gay-Power!!! – min vän Peter, 1999.11.20

• Datorer är som karlar, fast ännu krångligare. – min vän Peter, ävenledes 1999.11.20

• Att kvotera in en massa folk bara för att de har tuttar istället för du-vet-vad är ingen bra metod. – min vän Peter, 1999.12.09 eller där omkring

• Alla barnen har roligt utom Kjell - han är heterosexuell – min vän Peter, 2000.01.27

• Höjden av lycka är att köra mot solnedgången i en röd bubbla-cab med en söt kille vid sin sida... – min vän Peter, Oktober 2000

• du är inte tillräckligt stor för att kunna vara statistiskt pålitlig... – min vän Peter, 2001.02.09

• In tutta la mia vita non ho mai esercitato un atto di violenza né fisica né morale. – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975)

• Chi ruba poco va in galera, chi ruba tanto fa carriera – Proverbio italiano

• What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Framtíðin bíður ekki. (Framtiden väntar inte) – Reklam från isländsk bank

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes

• Vissa människor sprider lycka vart de än går. Andra gör det NÄR de än går. – Rickard Fuchs

• ...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing. – Richard V. Clemence

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein

• The greatest productive force is human selfishness. – Robert A. Heinlein

• Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. – Robert A. Heinlein

• Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. – Robert A. Heinlein

• Specialisation is for insects. – Robert A. Heinlein

• The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. – Robert A. Heinlein

• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. – Robert A. Heinlein

• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. – Robert Heinlein

• A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" – find out how he feels about astrology. – Robert Heinlein

• Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert Heinlein

• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. – Robert Heinlein

• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. – Robert Heinlein

• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. – Robert Heinlein

• Butterflies are not insects. They are self-propelled flowers. – Mrs. Virginia Heinlein in Tramp Royale

• The cruellest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson

• Gli amici, come gli amori, non si cercano: si trovano! – Roberto Gervaso, scrittore (*1937)

• If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all. – Rodney Dangerfield

• As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. – Roger Ascham

• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. – Rudolph Rummel

• Translation is like a mistress: beautiful and unfaithful, or faithful and ugly. – Russian proverb

• Vägen till Himmelen går förbi en tekanna. – Ryskt talesätt

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. – Sam Levenson

• The three most important things a man has are briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. – Samuel Johnson

• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. – Samuel Johnson

• Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Om kärleken är en illusion, så åt helvete med verkligheten – Sasha Guitry

• All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca

• Arbeta som om du skulle leva i evighet, älska som om du skulle dö idag. – Seneca

• What's the point of being able to speak, if you've got to keep secrets? – Shrek's donkey

• I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. – Steve Martin

• Everyday is a new beginning in life. Every moment is a time for self vigilance. – STILL THOUGHT #1, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• The longevity of a person's life-span is measured by the achievements one has accomplished. Hence, take a challenge with time; never let time idles away aimlessly. – STILL THOUGHT #3, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Time is a precious gem to a wise person, but to a fool, it is like a handful of mud, without any significance. – STILL THOUGHT #5, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Treat everyone with sincerity, they will certainly appear loveable and friendly. – STILL THOUGHT #25, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Happiness comes not from material wealth but less desire. – STILL THOUGHT #27, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• The greatest achievement in life is to be able to get up again from failure. – STILL THOUGHT #32, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Peacefulness is a field of blessing; Happiness is a class of wisdom. – STILL THOUGHT #34, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• The greatest blessing in life is in giving and not taking. – STILL THOUGHT #36, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Getting furious is a self-punishment over other's fault. – STILL THOUGHT #36, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Nothing is impossible, if we have courage and confidence. – STILL THOUGHT #53, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• To forgive others is to endow kindness on our own self. – STILL THOUGHT #55, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Before criticising others, we should make a self-evaluation if we are absolutely perfect and flawless. – STILL THOUGHT #91, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• We must first love ourselves, then only we can love others. – STILL THOUGHT #93, by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• When you accept a task, do it wholeheartedly. If you turn down a task, leave it willingly. – STILL THOUGHTS by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Life is like walking across a suspended tightrope. If one does not concentrate on looking ahead, but keeps looking back instead, one will surely fall. – STILL THOUGHTS by Dharma Master Shi Zheng-Yan

• Snygg men inte pråligt, sa' fan och målade svansen gräsgrön. – Svenskt ordspråk

• "Kaffe är gott, men jag vet något som är ännu bättre", sade flickan och trutade med munnen. – Svenskt ordspråk

• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise of that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – T. E. Hulme

• Erotic is just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. – Terry Pratchett, The Discworld novel "Eric"

• I always say: if you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, say it to me. – Terry Pratchett, "Nanny Oggs Cookbook"

• In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. – Thomas Henry Huxley

• Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. – Thomas Jefferson

• Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth. – Thomas Jefferson

• The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. – Thomas Jefferson

• My mind is my own church. – Thomas Paine

• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. – Thomas Paine

• Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. – Thomas Sowell

• Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. – Thomas Sowell

• The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. – Thomas Sowell

• Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? – Tom Clancy

• What do I know about sex? I'm a married man. – Tom Clancy

• Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. – Tom Robbins

• All is fair in love, war and tax evasion. – Tom Sharpe

• A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe

• Vedi di non chiamare intelligenti soltanto quelli che la pensano come te. – Ugo Ojetti, scrittore (1871 - 1946)

• Dubitare di sé stessi è il primo segno dell'intelligenza. – Ugo Ojetti, scrittore (1871 - 1946)

• Om du får oväntat besök, bjud inte på Gevalia, bjud på dig själv! – Ulrika Eckeskog

• Tonåringar rodnar ALLTID när vuxna visar sig ha ett liv som de inte får se... – Ulrika Eckeskog

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. – Unknown source

• Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. – Unknown source

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease. – Unknown source

• My sexual preference is not you. – Unknown source

• Latin is a language, as dead as it could be. First it killed the Romans, now it's killing me. – Unknown source

• If the opposite of PRO is CON, then what's the opposite of PROGRESS? – Unknown source

• Methodology, like sex, is better demonstrated then discussed – and often better anticipated than experienced. – Unknown source

• Imagine it was snowing sugar. It would look like snow, but a lot more people would be eating out. – Unknown source

• (A pound of courage is really a ton of fortune.) – Unknown source (found on a Chinese paperweight)

• A good programmer looks both left and right before crossing a one way street. – Unknown source

• The 90 - 90 rule of projects: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of a project takes the remaining 90% of the time. – Unknown source

• Who said politics had anything to do with logic? – Unknown woman on the train

• Hellre lyss till den sträng som brast än aldrig spänna en båge. – Verner von Heidenstam

• You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got. – Viki King

• I rather speak English than Icelandic, because then I make fewer grammatical mistakes. – My Icelandic friend Villi, 2001.02.22

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. – Walt Whitman

• I never drink water. Fish **** in it. – W C Fields

• The most important truths are likely to be those which... society at that time least wants to hear. – W. H. Auden

• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden

• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work "comes" to him. – W. H. Auden

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. – W. H. Auden

• Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser or more intelligent than his readers. For this reason the aphorist who adopts a folksy style with "democratic" diction and grammar is a cowardly and insufferable hypocrite. – W. H. Auden

• It takes little talent to see what is under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that organ. – W. H. Auden

• No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. – W. H. Auden

• No hero is immortal till he dies. – W. H. Auden

• To ask the hard question is simple. – W. H. Auden

• Erst wenn der letzte Baum gerodet, der letzte Fluss vergifter, det letzte Fisch gefangen werdet Ihr feststellen daß man Geld nicht essen kann! – Weissagung der Cree

• There is in true beauty something which vulgar souls cannot admire. – William Congreve

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been. – William Hazlitt

• It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. – William Ralph Inge

• Never assume the obvious is true. – William Safire

• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. – Winston Churchil

• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill

• A lie gets halfway around the world before truth can even get its boots on. – Winston Churchill

• När jag såg er stå där i parken och träna taichi, så tänkte jag att "det är precis så man målar kinesiska tecken"! – Wolfgang Zein, 2001-05-27

• Desvärre fick jag US-dollar tillbaka på TAX-free:n, men vi kan ju alltid använda dem nästa gång vi åker till Kina! – Wolfgang Zein, Augusti 2001

• När illrarna får tjock päls, blir det en kall vinter. – Wolfgang Zein, 04.12.2002

• En drake gör ingen saga. – Wolfgang Zein, 24.01.2003

• It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

• Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damned good. – Woody Allen

• Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. – Woody Allen

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. – W. Somerset Maugham

• Do, or do not. There is no try. – Yoda, Star Wars episode IV