Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

The best way to focus on the truth is to take the others out of the picture. By not judging, you create stillness in your mind.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Freedom may be value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

There’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

Words that weep and tears that speak.

Listen to people who know more than you do. Then do it your own way.

Nothing endures but personal qualities. Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the… Lees verder Walt Whitman

Sun Tzu: (also called Sunzi). (Huimin, c. 544 BC – ?, c. 496 BC). General and military strategist of the Chinese kingdom of Wu during the Period of Spring and Autumn (771 – 476 BC). He is traditionally considered the author of the book The Art of War. There is no instance of a country… Lees verder Sun Tzu

If drunk people start telling you the truth, you’ll have to get yourself more drunk soon.

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion… Lees verder Henrik Ibsen

The new Germany is a democracy. Such was the old Germany, or tried to be: but then the Nazis came and all hell broke loose. Hell can break loose anywhere: all people have hellish tendencies.