Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Elbert Green Hubbard: (19 June 1856 – 7 May 1915). American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a travelling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is best known as the founder of the Roycroft crafts community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the… Lees verder Elbert Hubbard

Kamla Bolanos: Appears to function more like a social-media-era attribution than a documented author — the kind of name that gets attached to a resonant, anonymous-origin quote as it spreads through Tumblr/Pinterest/Goodreads, rather than someone with a traceable published body of work. I can’t confirm whether it refers to a real specific individual who actually… Lees verder Kamla Bolanos

Nicholas Charles Sparks: (born December 31, 1965). American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He has published 24 novels, 16 of which are New York Times bestsellers, and two works of nonfiction, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide (92 million in the U.S. alone) in more than 50 languages. Among his works are The Notebook,… Lees verder Nicholas Sparks

Chinua Achebe: (Ogidi (Anambra), November 16, 1930 – Boston, March 21, 2013).                                                                                       … Lees verder Chinua Achebe

Loesje: Action group founded in 1983 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Focuses mainly on promoting freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Take your dreams into the day. A good autumn wind blows thoughts in a row. Autumn. Then I’ll just be the sunshine in the house myself. Autumn holidays, as if autumn lasts only a… Lees verder Loesje

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis: (Amsterdam, 31 December 1846 – Hilversum, 18 November 1919). Dutch socialist politician and later a social anarchist and anti-militarist. Domela Nieuwenhuis is considered one of the founders of the socialist movement in the Netherlands. He founded the magazine Recht voor Allen in 1879. Later, in 1898, he was founder of the magazine… Lees verder F. Domela Nieuwenhuis

Anti-Semitism is the hallmark of a backward culture. Terror, for the most part, consists only of useless atrocities committed by frightened people to appease themselves.

Adelbert von Chamisso: (30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838). German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt. The present time is wrong, life lies.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one… Lees verder Eleanor Roosevelt

In opera, there is always too much singing.