Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptable as man.

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. It seems that the right of… Lees verder Salman Rushdie

I know a mother-in-law who goes to sleep with her glasses on to better see her son-in-law suffering in her dreams.

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

Gratitude is not just a beautiful quality, but a primal power of the eternal soul of man.

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.

I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.

I will cast my August days behind me with my May, nor strive to drag them into autumn’s place, nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day. I’ll pluck the soberer asters with good grace and call September nothing but September.

August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up, and the spirit begins to wither.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.