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Jan Eliasen - Quotes, Sayings and Poems

Jan Eliasen - Sayings

Jan Eliasen - Quotes

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Saki

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go around nowadays saying things against one behind ones back, that are absolutely true.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't have the time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?

Unknown

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Saki (H.H. Munro)

Ask a question and have it answered--you learn. Ask the question out loud and have it answered, you and all around you learn!

Unknown

Mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Unknown

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Unknown

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Unknown

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Jan Eliasen - Poems

One dark day, in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back, they faced each other, drew their swords, and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and killed the two dead boys. Now if you don't believe the story's true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

Unknown

As I was walking up the stairs, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.

Unknown

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA.

Unknown

Jan Eliasen - Danish

Jeg citerer andre, for bedre at kunne udtrykke mig selv.

Michel Montaigne

Alle mennsker hader sladder, krig, underfundighed og krogveje. Og alle mennesker sladrer, slås, intrigerer og går krogveje.

Nis Petersen

Der er kun en ting der er værre end at blive sladret om - det er, ikke at blive det.

Oscar Wilde

Det er bedre at tale hen over hovedet på folk, end bag deres ryg.

Adlai Stevenson

En løgn når at få vandret jorden tynd, inden sandheden får snøret sine støvler.

Mark Twain

Et faktum er, at kvinder elsker sandheden - i hvert fald om andre kvinder.

W. Somerset Maugham

Ingen bidrager i den grad til underholding ved et selskab som dem, der slet ikke er der.

Audrey Hepburn

Kvindens tunge er hendes sværd - og hun passer godt på, at det ikke ruster.

Kinesisk ordsprog

Kys aldrig en grim kvinde. Hun fortæller det vidt og bredt.

Jødisk ordsprog

Det er meget ubehageligt, at jeg glemmer alt det, jeg skal huske, men husker alt det, jeg skal glemme.

Robert Storm Petersen

Der kan spares mange millioner og meget overflødigt arbejde ved en hensigtsmæssig ordning af administrationen – man da dette vil koste mange millioner og meget overflødigt arbejde, kan det ikke lade sig gøre!

Robert Storm Petersen