Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Hypatia: (Alexandria, c. 350-370 – there, March 415). Greek mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. She has been called the first female mathematician. She lived in Alexandria, in Egypt, and taught mathematics and Neoplatonic philosophy. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Michael Caine: Born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. (Rotherhithe, London, 14 March 1933). English film actor. January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan: (born 27 March 1978). British actor, comedian, and presenter. His style of comedy is deadpan and often self-deprecating. New Year’s resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

Luciano de Crescenzo: (Naples, 18 August 1928 – Rome, 18 July 2019). Italian writer, actor and director. The many books he wrote reflect his love of philosophy and literary themes. Like all singles, I attach great importance to friendship, I follow all friends with devotion.

Rosa Louise Parks-McCauley: (Tuskegee, Alabama, 4 February 1913 – Detroit, Michigan, 24 October 2005). American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 act of resistance in which she refused to give up her seat in the rear section reserved for blacks to white passengers. This happened when the front section of the… Lees verder Rosa Parks

David Kirsch: American fitness coach. January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It’s great! And then, by Valentine’s Day, you’re not coming in anymore.

Alfred Austin: (Headingley, Leeds, 30 May 1835 – Ashford, Kent, 2 June 1913). English poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after his predecessor Alfred Tennyson died in 1892. Pale January lay in its cradle day by day. Dead or living, hard to say.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca: (Madrid, 17 January 1600 – there, 25 May 1681). Important Spanish dramatist, the last great playwright of 17th-century Spain after Lope de Vega. Even in dreams, there is no loss of doing good. But whether it be truth or dream, to do well is what matters. If it is true,… Lees verder Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Anushka Atukorala: Born Colombo, Sri Lanka American writer of Christian books. A New Year has tiptoed in. Let’s go forward to meet it.

Katherine May: English internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Winter has decorated ordinary life.