Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

To pack up one’s traps. Revenge is sweet. Actions speak louder than words. To bend over backwards. Be thankful for what you’ve got. Practice makes perfect. Crime doesn’t pay. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. True friends are the ones you never see – they’re right behind you. Walls have ears. Beat… Lees verder English proverbs and sayings

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

Lois Ann Lowry: ( née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937). American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won… Lees verder Lois Lowry

One easily recognizes the professional photographer in the middle of a herd of tourists: it is the one who hides his camera.  

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

The opera always loses money. That’s as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Sophia Magdalena Scholl: (Sophie) Scholl (Forchtenberg, 9 May 1921 – Munich-Stadelheim, 22 February 1943). German student and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don’t dare express themselves as we did. Stand up for… Lees verder Sophie Scholl