Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton: (London, 25 May 1803 – Torquay, 18 January 1873). English poet, playwright, literary critic and politician. Fate laughs at probabilities. Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.            

Leonardo da Vinci: (Anchiano (Vinci), 15 April 1452 – Amboise, 2 May 1519). Italian architect, inventor, engineer, philosopher, physicist, chemist, anatomist, sculptor, writer and painter from the Florentine Republic, during the Italian Renaissance. He is considered the textbook example of the Renaissance ideal of homo universalis and genius. I awoke, only to find out that… Lees verder Leonardo da Vinci

Patrik Jungblom: Little is known about him, but the following quote appears frequently online and may originate from a work entitled ‘Journey into communication’ from December 2017, which is attributed to him. A child sees the infinite potential that life is, not because the child is ignorant, but because the child is free from a… Lees verder Patrik Jungblom

Hannah Brencher: American author, TED speaker, founder of More Love Letters, creative entrepreneur Atlanta, Georgia, Verenigde Staten. The best gift you are ever going to give someone – the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – St Petersburg, 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1881). Russian novelist and publicist. He is one of the best-known authors in Russian literature. He is counted among the so-called ‘Realist School’ in Russia, although his work is distinguished from many other realists by its philosophical content… Lees verder Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

David Robert Jones: Stage name David Bowie. (Brixton, London, 8 January 1947 – New York, 10 January 2016) British singer, songwriter, music producer and actor. He is considered one of the most influential rock musicians from the 1960s to the present day. Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. Aging is an extraordinary… Lees verder David Bowie

Victor Marie Hugo: (Besançon, 26 February 1802 – Paris, 22 May 1885) was a French writer, poet, essayist and statesman and is considered one of the most important and influential French Romantic authors of the 19th century. He wrote novels, poems, plays, essays and political speeches and also left an extensive correspondence. Friendship is being… Lees verder Victor Hugo

Addiction is a friendship without a friend.

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel: Viscount de Tocqueville. (Verneuil-sur-Seine, 29 July 1805 – Cannes, 16 April 1859). French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist, historian and statesman. He is considered an important thinker of modern political liberalism. I hope to see the day when the law guarantees equal civil liberty to all inhabitants of the same empire. Liberty cannot… Lees verder Alexis de Tocqueville

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald: (Saint Paul (Minnesota), 24 September 1896 – Hollywood, 21 December 1940). American novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, has been adapted for film several times. Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He is often associated… Lees verder F. Scott Fitzgerald