Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Hilary Hinton “Zig” Ziglar: (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012). American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. When you focus on problems, you will have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you will have more opportunities. Dreams grow if you do. The less you respond… Lees verder Zig Ziglar

Avram Noam Chomsky: (Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 7 December 1928). American linguist, philosopher, media critic and political activist. Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A founder of generative linguistics, he is the most influential linguist of the 20th century. Between 1980 and 1992, he was the most cited author in scientific… Lees verder Noam Chomsky

Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: (Taganrog, Russia, 29 January 1860 – Badenweiler, Germany, 15 July 1904). Russian writer, mainly of plays and short stories. Chekhov is counted among the greats of literary history. Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. People don’t notice if it’s August or December… Lees verder Anton Chekhov

What is society but an individual? No Longer Human.

If you write well, you don’t have to dress funny.

Fascism, if it ever returns, will undoubtedly present itself in the garb of anti-fascism.

The tibia is further away than the knee. Now begins a torrent of worlds and a trickling sense. Youth passes like a dream. Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. Age overtakes us all; our temples first; then our cheek and chin, slowly and surely, creep the frost of time. Up and do somewhat,… Lees verder Theocritus

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains. She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. The only dream worth having…is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy: (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910). Usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy. Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel… Lees verder Leo Tolstoy