Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Ernest Miller Hemingway: (Oak Park, 21 July 1899 – Ketchum, 2 July 1961). American writer and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1953 with The Old Man and the Sea and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. His… Lees verder Ernest Hemingway

I don’t trust words anymore. I only trust actions. People can pretend to do a lot without being serious about it.

Failure of political freedom destroys all other freedoms.

Be willing to go alone sometimes. You don’t need permission to grow. Not everyone who started with you will finish with you. And that’s OK.

The difference between friendship and love is that friendship endures absence. That’s the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

William Stanley Merwin: (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin’s unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest… Lees verder W. S. Merwin

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Every disease starts in the gut.

Jan Greshoff: (Nieuw-Helvoet, 15 December 1888 – Cape Town, 19 March 1971). Dutch journalist and writer who became best known as a poet and critic. Greshoff worked as a journalist from 1908, including at the Dagblad van Zuid-Holland and ‘s-Gravenhage and for weekly De Hofstad. From 1916, he worked on the arts editorial of De… Lees verder Jan Greshoff

I am troubled and harsh and hopeless. Though I have love inside me. But I don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it scratches like barbs.