The less one has to do
the less time one finds
to do it in.
(Lord Chesterfield.)
Κατηγορία: Aphorisms
A father is a banker…
A father is a banker provided by nature.
(Anonymous French.)
George Eliot, «We cannot reform…»
We cannot reform our forefathers.
(George Eliot: Adam Bede.)
Robert Louis Stevenson, «The obscurest epoch…»
The obscurest epoch is today.
(Robert Louis Stevenson: Across the Plains.)
Fernard Desnoyers, «Among the dead…»
Among the dead there are those
who still have to be killed.
(Fernard Desnoyers.)
Lord Acton, «Resist your time…»
Resist your time –
take a foothold outside it.
(Lord Acton.)
Goethe, «The century is advanced…»
The century is advanced,
but every individual begins afresh.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections.)
Edmund Burke, «Ambition…»
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
(Edmund Burke: Letters on a Regicide Peace.)
Bernard Shaw, «A hero…»
You cannot be a hero
without being a coward.
(Bernard Shaw: Preface to John Bull’s Other Island.)
Jules Renard, «Taste…»
Taste ripens at the expense of happiness.
(Jules Renard: Journal.)