Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Wilhelm Raabe: (Eschershausen, 8 September 1831 – Brunswick, 15 November 1910). German writer of novels and novellas of poetic realism. Only by reading does one learn how much one can leave unread.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home. If the guy next to you is swearing like a wharfie he’s probably a billionaire. Or, just conceivably, a wharfie.        

Allison JoAnne: (Born August, 1077, Connecticut, USA. American psychologist and anthropologist and founder of Pandora’s Box.(pandorasboxct.com). Walk barefoot. Talk to the moon, and the trees, and the rivers and streams and the mighty mountains. Find the magic in every little and big thing.        

Joseph Jacobus Maria (Joep) van ’t Hek: Stage name Youp van ’t Hek . (Naarden, 28 February 1954). Dutch columnist for the NRC and the VARAgids and a former cabaret performer. Friends? I never had them. Once, someone made an attempt. He said: ‘Are we good?’ I said, ´Well, for just a little while then.… Lees verder Youp van ´t Hek

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin: (Pyamukhino, 30 May 1814 – Bern, 1 July 1876). Russian anarchist thinker and organiser. Initially a democratic panslavist, Bakunin became an anarchist around the age of 50. His vision of an anarchist society is called collective anarchism. Collective-anarchism is a society with voluntarily formed labour associations and communities that can federalise. All… Lees verder Mikhail Bakunin

Jeff Jarvis: (born July 15, 1954). American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on the Internet. Serendipity is not randomness, serendipity [….] is unexpected relevance.        

Irwin Edman: American philosopher and professor of philosophy. He was born in New York City, New York, United States on 28 November 1896. He was the son of Solomon and Fredericka Sklower Edman. His father, a shirt manufacturer, had been born in Poland; his mother was from Germany. The discovery that the universe has no… Lees verder Irwin Edman

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev: (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. Freedom is rooted in ‘nothingness’. The act of freedom is primordial and completely irrational.        

Agner Krarup Erlang: (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929). Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. Erlang’s 1909 paper, and subsequent papers over the decades, are regarded as containing some of most important concepts and techniques for queueing theory. You don’t really understand simultaneity until you… Lees verder Agner Erlang

Charles Henri Hippolyte Chincholle: Born on 16 July 1843 in Amiens and died on 26 August 1902 in Paris, French journalist and writer. He is regarded as France’s first great reporter. Count more on those who serve you out of hatred for another, than on those who serve you out of friendship for you.  … Lees verder Charles Chincholle