Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

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

Words that weep and tears that speak.

Alan William Parker: (London, 14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020). British film director, screenwriter and film producer. Listen to people who know more than you do. Then do it your own way.

Walter ‘Walt’ Whitman: (West Hills (New York), 31 May 1819 – Camden (New Jersey), 26 March 1892). American poet, journalist and essayist whose poetry collection Leaves of Grass marked a milestone in the history of American literature. He is what Americans call a ‘self-made’ man: he started out as an errand boy in a law… Lees verder Walt Whitman

Sun Tzu: (also called Sunzi). (Huimin, c. 544 BC – ?, c. 496 BC). General and military strategist of the Chinese kingdom of Wu during the Period of Spring and Autumn (771 – 476 BC). He is traditionally considered the author of the book The Art of War. There is no instance of a country… Lees verder Sun Tzu

If drunk people start telling you the truth, you’ll have to get yourself more drunk soon.

Henrik Johan Ibsen: (Skien, 20 March 1828 – Kristiania, 23 May 1906). Norwegian playwright and poet. Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and… Lees verder Henrik Ibsen

The new Germany is a democracy. Such was the old Germany, or tried to be: but then the Nazis came and all hell broke loose. Hell can break loose anywhere: all people have hellish tendencies.

John Ernst Steinbeck: (Salinas (California), 27 February 1902 – New York, 20 December 1968). American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Over the course of his career, Steinbeck wrote twenty-seven books: sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. But I do feel strange – almost unearthly. I’ll… Lees verder John Steinbeck

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard: ( 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. Most people are so obsessed with… Lees verder Søren Kierkegaard