Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles: ( 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763). Usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. Friendship between two people of a different sex is almost always based on love.    

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: (Boulogne-sur-Mer, 23 December 1804 – Paris, 13 October 1869). French writer who achieved fame mainly as a literary critic. Sainte-Beuve remained best known as one of the most important literary critics of the nineteenth century, and indeed the entire history of French literature. Poetry does not consist in saying everything, but letting… Lees verder Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue: (Weimar, 3 May 1761 – Mannheim, 23 March 1819). German playwright and diplomat. Kotzebue was the most performed author of his time, and the popular nature of his work made him far more popular than Schiller and Goethe. Kotzebue is considered the greatest critic of Goethe and Schiller. Love is… Lees verder August von Kotzebue

Zhuang Zi: Old spelling Chuang-tzu, c. 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese poet and Taoist philosopher from the classical period of Chinese philosophy. He has been called a mystic and a kind of quietist. His work is considered one of the three pillars that form the foundation of Taoism. He is considered to have left a very… Lees verder Zhuang Zi

The Subhāṣitārṇava. Sanskrit book: Literally “waves of poetry”. The name of an unedited and unpublished subhāṣita-saṃgraha. It consists of over 300 pages in the Bengali script. About the author: There is currently nothing known about the about of this work. Book topics: Subhāṣita (सुभाषित, subhashita) refers to Sanskrit metrical aphorisms. Compilations of this kind of… Lees verder Subhāṣitārṇava

Stanley H. Horowitz: American Engineer working at American Electrical Power Company and writer of aphorisms. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Romain Gary: (Vilnius, Russia, 21 May 1914 – Paris, 2 December 1980). Born: Roman Kacew, also regularly working under pseudonyms, including as Emile Ajar, was a French-Jewish writer, translator, film director and diplomat. He won, as the only writer, the Prix Goncourt twice, once as Gary, once as Ajar. Apart from French, Gary also published… Lees verder Romain Gary

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff: (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016). Commonly known as Johan Cruyff. Dutch professional football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d’Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974. Cruyff was a proponent of the… Lees verder Johan Cruijff

Geert Galle: Flemish aphorism writer. One does not have wisdom just by playbacking them.    

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd: (14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) French novelist. If love is a master, friendship is the most discreet and the most exquisite of servants.