Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Duchess Caracciolodi Briènza: Author name René de Masny, is known for her aphorisms and thoughts on life and love. For example, she said, ‘Love without passion is like a garden without flowers’ and ‘Happiness consists of many dreams and a little reality’. She is also known for saying, ‘A life without love is like a… Lees verder René de Masny

Daniel Jay Gokey: (born April 24, 1980). American singer and former church music director. He was the third-place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol. After his placing on the show, Gokey signed to 19 Recordings and RCA Nashville at the beginning of a career in country music, releasing the single “My Best Days… Lees verder Daniel Gokey

Jan Hendrik Leopold: (‘s-Hertogenbosch, 11 May 1865 – Rotterdam, 21 June 1925). Dutch poet and classicist who is counted as belonging to Symbolism. He is considered by some to be the most important Dutch poet since Vondel. After his debut with poems influenced by Gorter and Mallarmé, from 1900 his poetry shows philosophical deepening especially… Lees verder J. H. Leopold

Hennes Väg: Swedish writer and blogger on relationship-related topics. We continue to miss the people we lose, we just learn to live around the holes they leave behind.        

Baltasar Gracián y Morales: (Belmonte (near Calatayud), 1601 – Tarazona (in Aragon). Spanish Jesuit known as a writer of amoral, illusory, “Machiavellian”, often cynically named books, including Handoracle and Art of Prudence. His work was praised by Nietzsche, Voltaire, Stendhal and La Rochefoucauld. Schopenhauer translated Handorakel into German. Gracián also wrote under the name Lorenzo… Lees verder Baltasar Gracián

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa: (Lisbon, 13 June 1888 – there, 30 November 1935). One of the most important poets in Portuguese literature and perhaps one of the most significant poets of the 20th century. I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.        

Markus Zusak: (Sydney, 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer. He is the son of an Austrian father and a German mother. He is the youngest of four children. Four of Zusak’s books have been published in Dutch: De underdog, De vechter, De boekendief and De boodschapper. De boekendief (the English original was published in… Lees verder Markus Zusak

Suzy Kassem: American writer, film director, philosopher, author, social commentator, activist, and poet who specializes in social issues of public concern. Nothing threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind. The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the… Lees verder Suzy Kassem

Michael Hartung: Independend Computer Hardware Professional. Tucson, Arizona, United States.   Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works.        

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein: (Vienna, 26 April 1889 – Cambridge, 29 April 1951). Austrian-British philosopher. He made many contributions to the philosophy of language and to the foundations of logic. He also made contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. He is considered a pioneer of analytic philosophy and is considered… Lees verder Ludwig Wittgenstein