Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Reyna Mays: Known as “Reyna Biddy“, is a spoken word poet, author, and self-love enthusiast based in Los Angeles, California. Reyna is known for both her positive affirmations and poetry online. Her work welcomes in the lost, heals the broken, and gives hope to those who feel there’s none left. Reyna’s work is brutally honest,… Lees verder Reyna Biddy

Michael Ende (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, November 12, 1929 – Filderstadt-Bonlanden, August 28, 1995) German writer. He was the only son of Edgar Ende, a surrealist painter who was later banned from painting by the Nazis. At the age of six, he moved to Munich, where he attended grammar school. Towards the end of World War II, he… Lees verder Michael Ende

Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli: (Florence, Florentine Republic, 3 May 1469 – there, 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, military strategist, historian, poet, playwright and humanist based in Florence during the Italian Renaissance. He is considered the founder of modern political science. He was secretary of the Second Chancellery of the Florentine… Lees verder Machiavelli

Ayn Rand: Born Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум (Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum), (Saint Petersburg, 2 February 1905 – New York, 6 March 1982). American novelist and philosopher. She was the founder of Objectivism, a philosophical movement. She grew up in Russia and left for the United States in 1926, where she assumed American citizenship not much later. Just… Lees verder Ayn Rand

Willem Frederik Hermans: (Amsterdam, 1 September 1921 – Utrecht, 27 April 1995). Dutch writer mainly of novels, novellas and contemplative prose. Typical of Hermans’ work are the close literary construction and the coherence between narrative style, plot and theme, which is essentially knowledge-theoretical. The best known of his 13 novels are The Dark Room of… Lees verder Willem Frederik Hermans

Carl Zuckmayer: (Nackenheim, December 27, 1896 – Visp, Switzerland, January 18, 1977) was a German writer. Zuckmayer grew up in Mainz, attended gymnasium there, and participated in the First World War as a volunteer. After the war, he studied for another two years in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, but in 1920 he moved to Berlin and… Lees verder Carl Zuckmayer

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. Life is a lot like jazz – it’s best when you improvise.

Learn to be silent. Let your still mind listen and absorb. Be nobody’s tyrant, not even your dog; be nobody’s slave, not even your friend’s. In household goods the newest is best, in friendship the oldest. A fool is known by his speech; a wise man by silence. No man is free who cannot control… Lees verder Pythagoras

Epictetus: (50 – c. 130 AD). Stoic philosopher and along with Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, among others, is counted among the leading figures in Stoic philosophy from the first centuries AD. Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. You are a little soul carrying around… Lees verder Epictetus