This is a rough suggestion for my Thoughtbook. The material is mixed, some sentences are in English, some in Swedish, as they are recorded in my mind. Some in both languages.
I spend a reasonable, not unreasonable, time to get every quote right. My life, if not yours, is too short for being a “quote nazi”. (But in the final book, if it materializes, I will check them all, I think.)
Since this page is constantly growing, please revisit. Note: New entries always at the top.
What is culture? To know what concerns one, and to know what it concerns one to know. [Aphorisms!]
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else’s.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.
To live with someone and to live in someone are two fundamentally different matters. There are people in whom one can live without living with them, and vice versa.
Even the young man who believes in nothing needs a girl who believes in HIM.
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see
more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of
any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but
because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Handeln… vilken upphöjd tanke hos det antika samhället att vilja förbjuda sin adel att syssla med den!
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
The superior man knows what is right. The inferior man knows what sells.
Hjälte blir man på en sekund, hederlig (god) människa får man vara hela livet.
I öknen vitna benen av de som, när de fick sitt livsmål i sikte, satte sig ner för att skriva en bok därom.
There but for the grace of God go I.
Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.
We’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
The detective didn’t carry a gun since it gave him a sense of security that was not earned.
Det räcker om riddarna applåderar.
Det är stort att tänka rätt men större att tänka fritt.
If you want to chain to hold
Bite on it, hard and bold.
Alla tycker om lukten av sin egen fis. / Eveybody likes the smell of their own fart.
Memory is the cause of more sins than Forgetfulness.
It would be a greater charity to starve the rich than to feed the poor.
Man kan inte göra omelett utan att krossa ägg.
In this theatre of man’s life it is given only to God and the Angels to be lookers-on.
Many a man has come to the top of the ladder to discover that it was raised against the wrong wall.
If something is worth doing it is worth doing well.
If something is worth doing it is worth doing badly.
If the shoe fits you are not allowing for growth.
Det är inte hur man har det utan hur man tar det.
I pissed on a man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
Memory is the cause of more sins than Forgetfulness.
It is far easier to respect one’s superiors than to find them.
Memory is the cause of more sins than Forgetfulness.
I feel so much better, now that I have given up hope.
Lev så att du kan leva efter döden.
Om du vill att dina drömmar ska bli sanna, vakna!
Även den skönaste världsordning är att förlikna vid en på måfå hopskyfflad avskrädeshög.
Jag slängde bort min kopp när jag såg en pojke dricka ur handen.
De små tjuvarna hänger man, för de stora lyfter man på hatten.
Där alla tänker lika är det ingen som tänker särskilt mycket.
Lust är att göra det man har lust med. Vilja att göra det man inte vill.
Knowledge is addition, wisdom subtraction.
De stenade honom med ett minnesmärke.
The modesty of woman — she hides her beauty by trying to show it.
A little Knowledge is a dangerous thing, but much is absolutely fatal.
Fint folk kommer sent, de finaste kommer inte alls.
Truth cannot be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
If you consume attention, add value.
Tystnaden är fullkomningen av alla spruckna toner.
It is absurd to bring back a runaway slave. If a slave can survive without a master, is it not awful to admit that the master cannot live without a slave?
