Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero: (Amsterdam, March 16, 1585 – Amsterdam, August 23, 1618). Dutch poet, playwright, and rhetorician, not of highly cultivated Renaissance literature, but of popular poetry. His most important work is the comedy Spaanschen Brabander from 1617, ’the pinnacle of Dutch comedy in the Golden Age’. To grease someone’s palm.        

Samuel Butler: (Strensham, Worcestershire, 3 February 1612 – London, 25 September 1680). English poet who gained fame primarily for his satirical work “Hudibras”.                                                                 … Lees verder Samuel Butler

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur; 6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006), also known as Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works cover the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia’s struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during the Second World War, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno… Lees verder Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Bern Williams: (often confused in quotation databases with Bernard Williams, the English philosopher) was an editor and author best known for his work in the hot rod and custom car culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bern Williams is frequently quoted for his humorous and heart-warming “aphorisms”, in which he often used car… Lees verder Bern Williams

Richard Milhous Nixon: (Yorba Linda, January 9, 1913 – New York, April 22, 1994).American politician of the Republican Party. He was the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.        

Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius: (Rome, c. 480 – Pavia, 524). A Christian, late Roman philosopher, music theorist, writer and politician who lived in Italy in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. He is generally regarded as an important link between ancient pagan philosophy and the Christian Middle Ages. Boethius was executed in 524 on the orders… Lees verder Boethius

There are three things that need to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door to a stranger, and arranging your daughter’s marriage.

Félicité Robert de Lamennais: (La Mennais) (Saint-Malo, 19 June 1782 – Paris, 27 February 1854). French Catholic priest, philosopher and political writer. Passion and freedom are therefore mutually exclusive.      

George Washington Carver: (Diamond, Missouri, 12 July 1861 – Tuskegee, Alabama, 5 January 1943) was an American inventor who became best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut. Examples include peanut butter jars, a peanut radio, peanut glue and even a few electrical appliances shaped like a peanut. Carver was an agricultural… Lees verder George Washington Carver

Herman Gorter: (Wormerveer, 26 November 1864 – Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 15 September 1927). Dutch poet and council communist. He was also a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party, which later became the CPN. He is best known for his epic-length poem Mei (1889). The opening line of this poem, ‘A new spring and a new sound’, has… Lees verder Herman Gorter