Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about wealth, crime, criminals
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Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about man, americansA good name is better than oil (i.e. riches).
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, name, good, good luckKnees up mother Brown: There came a girl from France Who...
Traditional Songs BritishAne Begger is wae, another by the gate gae.
Proverbs and old sayingsTo cure a cold you need the warmth of a pigeon's nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about need, contentmentEvents of the day 20 May
Famous quotes
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of...
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about absolution, mother, heart, contentment
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about end, love
The heart of a mother ia an abyss, in its depths there is...
Quote by Honoré de Balzac about mother, absolution, heart
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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Sentimental story
Then we met more often.
I stood at one side of the hour,
you at the other,
like two handles of an amphora.
Only the words flew between us,
back and forth.
You could almost see their swirling,
and suddenly,
I would lower a knee,...
Distance
is the cog wheel
on the haunted axle of my hearing,
grinding fine the deadened mind
of that unborn god
waiting to be caught
by the earth's blue speed,
and carrying in a handled urn
the plucked heart - ours,
it's beating,...
Knot 19
Be aware that I can kill,
that I can crush with my heel the sweet head
of the peaceful rising star,
because of this I've turned to painting houses!
Be aware that I take no pity on myself,
that I mix my blood with birch trees!
I bring...
Desire
Come now to the forest's spring
Running wrinkling over the stones,
To where lush and grassy furrows
Hide away in curving boughs.
Then you can run to my open arms,
Be held once more in my embrace,
I'll gently lift that veil of yours...
Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Repentance washes away sin.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sin
One foot is better than two crutches.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
Men die but words live on.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word, death, man
Facts are better than theories.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans
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...
