Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous laws.

Carolus Joannes Baptista Jonckheere: (Ostend, 9 April 1906 – Rijmenam, 13 December 1993) Flemish author. The versatile Jonckheere wrote poetic, later full of irony, novellas and travel stories, as well as poems, essays and reviews. Words should only serve to enhance the silence. Abstract words kill dreams of reality.

The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.

Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet: (30 October 1902 – 3 September 1985). American author, poet, psychologist, and lecturer. With her husband, Harry Allen Overstreet, she lectured widely and co-wrote a number of books. October is a symphony of permanence and change. Autumn leaves are a symphony of sustainability in change.

October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.

He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it: the ending and beginning of things.

Laura Jaworski: American author and artist specialising in crochet and embroidery designs. There is great beauty in each season, but autumn has a pinch of something more. Autumn holds a wonder all its own. The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air. Autumn inspires endlessly. Autumn is the time when Nature takes her… Lees verder Laura Jaworski

George Steiner: (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 23 April 1929 – Cambridge (UK), 3 February 2020). French-American writer, literary scholar and cultural philosopher. Hope builds its own dreams. Modern education is organized amnesia. Those who no longer memorize anything destroy the past.