Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: (Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa, 3 January 1892 – Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 2 September 1973). English philologist, poet and professor of English language and literature. He became best known as the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, making him the father of modern fantasy… Lees verder J. R. R. Tolkien

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Come up into the hills. O, my young love, return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost,… Lees verder Thomas Wolfe

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty’s heightening.

It’s June in January because I’m in love. It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.

Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest.

It’s so goddamn cold, it’s gonna snow until June.

John Stuart Mil: (Pentonville, 20 May 1806 – Avignon, 8 May 1873). English philosopher and economist. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, the ethical theory proposed by his godfather Jeremy Bentham. He described his own version of this in the work Utilitarianism, indicating the need to distinguish between different kinds of pleasure. In his well-known… Lees verder John Stuart Mill

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Antoine Gerard Theodore (Toon) Hermans: (Sittard, 17 December 1916 – Nieuwegein, 22 April 2000) Dutch cabaret artist, singer, painter and poet. He is considered one of the ‘Big Three of post-World War II Dutch cabaret’, along with Wim Sonneveld and Wim Kan. When you are young, you hardly get a chance to know who you… Lees verder Toon Hermans

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.