Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

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.

William Wordsworth: (Cockermouth, 7 April 1770 – Rydal (Westmorland), 23 April 1850). English Romantic poet. The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. Cloud-piercing peak, and trackless heath, instinctive homage pay. Nor wants the dim-lit cave a wreath to honor thee, sweet May! While from… Lees verder William Wordsworth

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson: (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886). American poet whose work, together with that of Walt Whitman, ushered in a new era in American poetry: modernism. Although she led a reclusive life and achieved little fame during her active years, after her death she was recognised as one of the most important… Lees verder Emily Dickinson

Charles John Huffam Dickens: (Landport near Portsmouth, 7 February 1812 – Higham (Kent), 9 June 1870). One of the most important English writers during the Victorian era and the first literary chronicler of the metropolis in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. Until after World War I, he remained England’s most popular writer. He achieved… Lees verder Charles Dickens