Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Everyone has the freedom to choose continuously in the present. We can only choose for ourselves, not for others. As soon as we let others choose for us, we lose confidence in our Self.

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.

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski : (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942). Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Failure of political freedom destroys all other freedoms.      

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.    

Kaui Hart Hemmings: (born 1975). American writer. She is best known for her 2007 novel The Descendants, which was adapted into a film of the same title. Kaui Hart Hemmings was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Punahou School for high school, graduating in 1994.She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998. She earned… Lees verder Kaui Hart Hemmings

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

Hippocrates of Kos: (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος) (Kos, c. 460 BC – Larissa, 377 BC) was a Greek physician. His name means ‘horse tamer’. He is regarded as the founder, the ‘father’ of Western medicine, because he was the first to recognise natural rather than supernatural causes for diseases. He was one of the… Lees verder Hippocrates