Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Willem Frederik Hermans: (Amsterdam, 1 September 1921 – Utrecht, 27 April 1995). Dutch writer mainly of novels, novellas and contemplative prose. Typical of Hermans’ work are the close literary construction and the coherence between narrative style, plot and theme, which is essentially knowledge-theoretical. The best known of his 13 novels are The Dark Room of… Lees verder Willem Frederik Hermans

Home is not where you come from, but where you want to die.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. Life is a lot like jazz – it’s best when you improvise.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Learn to be silent. Let your still mind listen and absorb. Be nobody’s tyrant, not even your dog; be nobody’s slave, not even your friend’s. In household goods the newest is best, in friendship the oldest. A fool is known by his speech; a wise man by silence. No man is free who cannot control… Lees verder Pythagoras

Epictetus: (50 – c. 130 AD). Stoic philosopher and along with Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, among others, is counted among the leading figures in Stoic philosophy from the first centuries AD. Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. You are a little soul carrying around… Lees verder Epictetus

Only those who are alone a lot learn to think properly.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

You are one with nature.

A joke and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.