Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

The arrival of August means that summer is drawing to a close, and that’s exactly why it should be embraced.

Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December. August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.

Allard Pierson: (Amsterdam, 8 April 1831 – Almen, 27 May 1896). Dutch preacher, theologian, art historian and linguist. Traveling is dilating the heart.

Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.

August is for changes and strength.

Sara Baume: (born 1984. Irish novelist. She was named on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list in 2023. The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels. There’s no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation. This morning,… Lees verder Sara Baume

Henry Rollins: Born as Henry Lawrence Garfield. (Washington, 13 February 1961) American singer, actor, poet, writer and all-round artist. I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter… Lees verder Henry Rollins

One evening in August, you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden, it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. August is the border between summer and autumn. It is the most beautiful month I know.

Narayan Pandit: (or Narayana (died 10th century), was the Brāhmaṇa author of the Sanskrit treatise called Hitopadesha — a work based primarily on the Panchatantra, one of the oldest collection of stories, mainly animal fables, in the world. Narayana’s dates are not known, but scholarly consensus places the composition of the Hitopadesha at around 800… Lees verder Narayan Pandit