Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Napoleon Bonaparte: (Ajaccio, 15 August 1769 – St Helena, 5 May 1821). Baptised Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a French general and dictator during the last governments of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was emperor of the French from 2 December 1804 to 11 April 1814. From 17 March 1805 to 11 April 1814,… Lees verder Napoleon Bonaparte

Joseph Joubert: (Montignac in Périgord, 7 May 1754 – Paris, 4 May 1824) French moralist and essayist. He who does not have the weakness of friendship also lacks its strength. Imagination is the eye of the soul. The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Grace is in garments, in movements, in… Lees verder Joseph Joubert

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.