Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Gary Edward “Garrison” Keillor: (born August 7, 1942). American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor’s Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting… Lees verder Garrison Keillor

Maxine: Stage name of Gonny Buurmeester. (Rotterdam, 14 October 1970). Dutch singer who became known thanks to her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. She initially performed under the name Bojana. Maxine spent her childhood in Rotterdam and moved to Breda later in life. Music and singing have always played an important role in her… Lees verder Maxine

You can’t stop being afraid by just pretending everything that scares you isn’t there.

Reason is the gentle force that sets limits and proportions for everything, and even for violence. There must be no freedom to destroy freedom. Man today faces the alternative: demise of man or transformation of man.

Edmund Waller: (Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, 3 March 1606 – Beaconsfield, 21 October 1687). English poet and politician. Edmund Waller was born into a well-to-do family. He received his education at Eton College and at King’s College of the University of Cambridge. Already at the age of 16, he was elected MP, where he developed into an… Lees verder Edmund Waller

PEOPLE do not need to be governed and do not require leaders unless they are IGNORANT, CAPTIVE, WAGE SLAVES, or SUBJECT to a DICTATOR.

Horses make a landscape beautiful. Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

Henry Nicholson Ellacombe: (1822–1916). British plantsman and author on botany and gardening. Ellacombe, the son of Henry Thomas Ellacombe, was born at Bitton, Gloucestershire in 1822. He attended Bath Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1844. In 1847 he was ordained and spent a year as a curate at Sudbury, Derbyshire, before returning… Lees verder Henry N. Ellacombe

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones: (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981). British writer and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet. Born on 27 October 1889 in Rochester, Kent, daughter of Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold and his wife, Ethel (née Alger), and brought up mostly in Jamaica. Her younger brother was Ralph… Lees verder Enid Bagnold

Endings are not bad things. They just mean that something else is about to begin.