Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the...
Quote by John Updike about opinion, rain, grace, sky, earth, life
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The braying of donkeys doesn't reach heaven.
Proverbs and old sayingsDon't call a man honest just because he never had the...
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about chance, manIt is easier to build two hearths than always to keep...
Proverbs and old sayings German about fire, fire brigadeA crow thinks her own bird fairest.
Proverbs and old sayings DanishEvents of the day 18 March
AD 37:
The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
633:
Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
1068:
An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1229:
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1947:
Was born Emil Nicolae.
Famous quotes
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
Quote by John Updike about opinion, conspiracy, happiness, contentment
In a relaxed body lives a relaxed mind!
Quote by Robin Sharma about meditation, body, mind
We are most alive when we're in love.
Quote by John Updike about love
I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am....
Quote by Kim Ung-Yong about happiness
Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction...
Quote by Albert Einstein about thinking
I have only two rules which I regard as principles of...
Quote by Albert Einstein about rules
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Quote by Albert Einstein about weakness, thinking
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...
Quote by William Blake about philosophy, sleep, night
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...
Quote by Henry Ford about succes, progress, beginning
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the...
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about judgment, judges, day, contentment
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice
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The shadow
Your burnt offspring's smoke will wind
Peacefully towards the skies
Only if you bear in mind
That when you go to the sun,
Your dark shadow is behind.
Silent slave whom the grim lord
Summons by a silent gesture,
He takes heed,...
Poems by George Coșbuc about shadow, contentment, smoke, sun, nothing, flight, mind, dark, light, eyesOnly One!
Her hair flows down like a river’s stream,
So slender, like a wheat stalk’s gleam,
With a black apron tied at the seam,
I lose her from my sight, beloved.
And when I see her, I turn pale;
When I don’t, I grow frail,
And when others come to...
Poems by George CoșbucThe Keynote
The bone is a joy only when it's the forehead bone,
when it protects, does not disjoin,
as are the alkaline vertebrae
from the difficult depths of the flesh and the wedding.
I'm resigned to losing the habit
of my manner of being,
but...
Poems by Nichita Stănescu about habits, being, body, time, hunger, marriage, solitude, death, joy, celebrityDecebal to his people
This life is a lost boon if you
Don't live it as you wanted to!
Much would a warlike, ruthless foe
Enslave us all! Our birth, we know,
Was woe enough; would you get through
Another dreadful woe?
Death, even for a godlike scion,
Is...
Poems by George Coșbuc about contentment, fight, fear, death, man, gods, bad luck, enemies, law, oathFolklore
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Proverbs and old sayings
A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience.
Proverbs and old sayings French about patience, money
It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
He has meikle prayer but little devotion.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness
There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.
Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness, contentment
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man
Who came back from the grave and told the story?
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
Riddles
If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.
Proverbs and old sayings American
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Phoenix bird
Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...
Bovarism
Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...
A priori - a posteriori
A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...
