Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

John Ruskin: (London, 8 February 1819 – Brantwood (Lancashire), 20 January 1900). English critic who became best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is also remembered as a writer, poet and talented watercolourist. Ruskin’s essays on art and architecture were highly influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The… Lees verder John Ruskin

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye: (18 januari 1811 – 25 mei 1883). Frans jurist, dichter, schrijver en anti-slavernij activist. Aandachtig waarnemer van het politieke leven in de Verenigde Staten en bewonderaar van de Amerikaanse grondwet, bedacht hij het idee van een standbeeld dat door het Franse volk aan de Verenigde Staten werd geschonken en resulteerde… Lees verder Édouard René de Laboulaye

Don’t get so busy making a living, that you forget to make a life.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

If you can dream it, you can do it! Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Man is a prisoner on death row lucky enough not to know the date of his execution.

Anne Sexton: Born Anne Gray Harvey (Newton (Massachusetts), 9 November 1928 – Weston (Massachusetts), 4 October 1974). American poet. In 1967, she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This November there seems to be nothing to say. I know that I have died before—once in November. I would like to think that no one would… Lees verder Anne Sexton

John Barrowman: (Glasgow, 11 March 1967). Scottish (musical) actor, dancer, singer and television presenter who has worked in the UK and the US. He speaks English with an American accent because his family moved to Illinois when he was nine years old. He is best known for his television work in the UK, particularly his… Lees verder John Barrowman