Av någon anledning kom jag nyligen att tänka på aforismen "women, can't live with them, can't live without them." Så idag funderade jag vem som var upphovsmannen (för jag kände på mig att det var en man) till dessa träffande ord. Efter lite googlande hittade jag vad jag sökte. Desiderius Erasmus (Erasmus av Rotterdam) 1466-1536. På BrainyQuote hittar jag förutom ovanstående en hel hög med träffsäkra citat av denna uppenbart insiktsfulla man. Eller vad sägs om:
"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"To know nothing is the happiest life."
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"To know nothing is the happiest life."
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
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En annan insiktsfull man...
"Women should be obscene and not heard."
Groucho Marx
Groucho ja, han spelar ju i en liga för sig.
"Humor is reason gone mad."
Groucho Marx
Reason is humor gone away.
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