Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

I’m just messing around. I paint like a barbarian in this barbaric time. Freedom is a great discipline.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Politics would not be possible at all without the bad memory of mankind. Some questions are so good it would be a shame to spoil them with an answer. Woke up on the wrong side of his dreams. Whoever that happens to is dead. If you want to be genius you have to go too… Lees verder Harry Mulisch

Freedom is not a right, it is a duty.

Nikola Tesla: (Smiljan, 10 July 1856 – New York, 7 January 1943). Inventor, electrical engineer and physicist. He is considered one of the greatest engineers and inventors of all time. Nikola Tesla is best known to the general public as the inventor of the alternating current generator, the alternating current electric motor and other key… Lees verder Nicola Tesla

Alphonsus Paulus Johannes Maria: (Fons) Jansen (Bussum, 12 October 1925 – Hilversum, 23 March 1991). Dutch cabaret artist and writer. Traveling by plane: to save time you spend hours being bored. What a deception really: making people laugh at the truth. If everyone is going to say what they think, what will be left of… Lees verder Fons Jansen

Haruki Murakami: (Kyoto, 12 January 1949). Japanese writer and translator. Murakami was born in Kioto and grew up in Kobe. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest. His mother was the daughter of a merchant from Osaka. Both taught Japanese literature. However, Murakami was always more interested in American literature, so he adopted… Lees verder Haruki Murakami

Deepak Chopra: (New Delhi, 22 October 1946). Indian author of books on spirituality, alternative medicine and ayurveda and he lives in the United States. He states that his greatest influence comes from his inherently Hindu faith, especially the teaching of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita. To make the right choices in life you have to… Lees verder Deepak Chopra

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch: (Dublin, 15 July 1919 – Oxford, 8 February 1999). Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to alter her text.… Lees verder Iris Murdoch

There’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.