Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility; I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
If you tip the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything will fall.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
The necessities were going by default to save the luxuries until I hardly knew which were necessities and which luxuries.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines-so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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Elinor Wylie
Avoid the reeking herd, / Shun the polluted flock, / Live like that stoic bird / The eagle of the rock.
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Xenophon
Effort is the vegetable garnishing for happiness.
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Xenophon
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Xenophon
Pray to God, at the beginning of all thy works, so that thou mayest bring them all to a good ending.
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Xenophon
The despot, be assured, lives night and day like one condemned to death by the whole of mankind for his wickedness.
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Xenophon
The sea! the sea!
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Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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William Butler Yeats
A pity beyond all telling / is hid in the heart of love.
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William Butler Yeats
A pity beyond all telling, / Is hid in the heart of love.
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William Butler Yeats
A shudder in the loins engenders there / The broken wall, the burning roof and tower / And Agamemnon dead.
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William Butler Yeats
A woman can be proud and stiff / When on love intent; / But Love has pitched his mansion in / The place of excrement; / For nothing can be sole or whole / That has not been rent.
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William Butler Yeats
A woman of so shining loveliness / That man treshed corn at midnight by a tress, / A little stolen tress.