Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Antoinette van Kleeff: Dutch Instagram blogger. Procrastinator, Dutch, London addict, Hufflepuff, Christmas crazy, theatre lover. When snow falls, nature listens.

Will Chancellor: American writer, grew up in Hawaii and Texas. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is his first novel. He lives in New York. By December, an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

Oliver Herford: (2 December 1860 – 5 July 1935). Anglo-American writer, artist, and illustrator known for his pithy bon mots and skewed sense of humor. He was born in Sheffield, England on 2 December 1860 to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver’s father, a Unitarian minister, moved the family to Chicago in 1876… Lees verder Oliver Herford

Robert Buchanan: (1813–1866). Scottish socialist writer and lecturer, and journalist. I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, as busy as the elfin world can be, clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

Power should make you sad and tired. Anyone who seems to like power is suspect.

Sometimes you wonder, someday you will understand.

A banker is still on provisional release.

Man is a slave to all his movements, chained in iron chains by the opinions and ways of the others that make up society.

I started to be free when I discovered that the cage was made of thoughts.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!