Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Marcel Exel: Born ( 02-03-1965 ) and raised in Emmen. Magnetiser, massages, spiritual healer. If the train is not running, it cannot be late either.      

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon: (Liege, 12 or 13 February[4] 1903 – Lausanne, 4 September 1989). French-speaking Belgian writer. Simenon became best known to the general public as the author of 75 detective novels and 28 novellas about Maigret. He also wrote another 136 psychological novels and hundreds of other stories and novellas. He also initially… Lees verder Georges Simenon

Otto Weiss: Czech-Jewish writer and poet 1898-1944.   Thinking is so extraordinarily difficult that many prefer to judge. Fantasy is a gift from the gods, but so is lack of imagination. Without this lack, humanity would have long since lost the courage to live for.        

Why I love October Why do I love October? There is crimson and golden nuts in the forest, There is fruit in orchard and in hills; ‘This is the banquet hall of seasons’, When their purple wine is spilled; Enjoying splashes of colour, Where the richness of the year is worked. And so I love… Lees verder Mamie

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.