Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Angela Bitonti: Belgian life coach and clothing webshop owner. It is not that one drop that makes the bucket overflow. It’s those countless drops before that.      

Simon Vestdijk: (Harlingen, 17 October 1898 – Utrecht, 23 March 1971) . Dutch novelist, poet, essayist, translator, music critic and physician. Vestdijk grew up in Harlingen as the only child of a PE teacher and showed an interest in music, reading and the visual arts from an early age. He went to the HBS in… Lees verder Simon Vestdijk

René Émile Char: (14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988). French poet and member of the French Resistance. A poet must leave traces, not evidence. Only traces awaken dreams.      

Ludwig Tieck: (Berlin, 31 May 1773 – there, 28 April 1853). German writer of the Romantic era. Selfishness is the cliff that shatters every friendship.        

Thornton Niven Wilder: (Madison (Wisconsin) 17 April 1897 – Hamden (Connecticut), 7 December 1975). American novelist and playwright. We can only say that we live in the moments when our hearts are aware of our treasures.        

Malcolm Lowry: (Wallasey, 28 July 1909 – Chalvington with Ripe, 26 June 1957). English poet and novelist. His best-known novel is Under the Volcano (1947), published in Dutch as Onder de vulkaan, filmed by John Huston in 1984. The fallen leaves in the forest even seemed to make the ground glow and give light.  … Lees verder Malcolm Lowry

Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé: pen name: Mme. Rogé; (November 30, 1838 – September 1, 1916) American writer, critic, and educator. The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.  

Samuel Butler: (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902). English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).… Lees verder Samuel Butler

Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn: (Kislovodsk, 11 December 1918 – Moscow, 3 August 2008). Russian writer who was regarded as a dissident in the 1970s. You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s… Lees verder Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Also spelt as (von) Leibnitz. (Leipzig, 1 July 1646 – Hanover, 14 November 1716). Versatile German mathematician, philosopher, logician, physicist, historian, jurist and diplomat, considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 17th century. He developed more or less simultaneously with, but independently of, Isaac Newton a branch of mathematics known as… Lees verder Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz