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Fleyg orð

Okkur er flestum kunnugt um fleyg orð úr eigin menningarheimi á eigin tungumáli. En hve mörg þekkjum við á öðrum tungumálum? Héf gefst tækifæri til þess að uppgötva ekki einungis tilvitnanir frá ýmsum menningarheimum á ýmsum tungumálum, heldur jafnframt uppruna þeirra. Átt þú þér uppáhalds tilvitnun? Þér er velkomið að senda okkur tilvitnanir!

Fleyg orð

Okkur er flestum kunnugt um fleyg orð úr eigin menningarheimi á eigin tungumáli. En hve mörg þekkjum við á öðrum tungumálum? Héf gefst tækifæri til þess að uppgötva ekki einungis tilvitnanir frá ýmsum menningarheimum á ýmsum tungumálum, heldur jafnframt uppruna þeirra. Átt þú þér uppáhalds tilvitnun? Þér er velkomið að senda okkur tilvitnanir!
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106

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Eftir attributed to John Lennon
Although the quote is often attributed to John Lennon, it was reputedly first used in 1957 in an issue of Reader’s Digest by a man named Allen Saunders.


93

I can never wear beige because nobody will know who I am.

Eftir Queen Elizabeth II


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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.  

Eftir Oscar Wilde
Said by Oscar Wilde who near the end of his life was debt-ridden and ill and his shabby accommodation in Paris did not meet with his aesthetic standards.


105

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Eftir Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist


98

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Eftir Geoffrey Willans, English writer and journalist


104

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Eftir Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt


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I have nothing to declare but my genius!  

Eftir Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was not known for his modesty! This is, reputedly, Wilde's response to an offical who asked him if he had anything to declare at a customs control in New York in 1882.


99

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Eftir Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher


100

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible.

Eftir Audrey Hepburn, actress and humanitarian


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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Eftir Oscar Wilde
In his book "The Picture of Dorian Gray".