The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft about world, joke
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No wind can do him good who steers for no port.
Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luckIf a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame.
Proverbs and old sayings about husband, wifeDon't cry till you are out of the wood.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentmentOnly heaven can see the back of a sparrow.
Proverbs and old sayings BantuSilence is the best answer to the stupid. The fool has...
Proverbs and old sayings South American about silence, americansEvents of the day 20 August
F1945:
Died Francesco Orestano.
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When you are strong-willed, everything is possible.
Quote by Dimitrie Bolintineanu about will, contentment
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft about enthusiasm, fear, real estate, work
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to...
Quote by Bolesław Prus about people, sacrifice, self-control, nature, human imperfections
You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian...
Quote by Anghel Damian about humor
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...
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of...
Quote by Albert Einstein about rules
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 success, 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.
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Time flows by...
Time flows by, and has passed like rivers
Since that hallowed moment we first saw each other,
Yet I'll never forget the love we had together,
You miracle, with large eyes and cold fingers.
Oh, come back! To bring words only you can...
Poems by Mihai Eminescu about contentment, miracle, word, moment, time, eyes, silence, suffering, peace, childrenO Remain
O remain, dear one, I love you,
Stay with me in my fair land,
For your dreamings and your longings
Only I can understand.
You, who like a prince reclining
Over the pool with heaven starred;
You who gaze up from the water
With such...
Poems by Mihai Eminescu about contentment, water, country, miracle, age, olderness, charm, magic, secret, moonIn the cone of light
A poet was musing the dark.
I knew it too. I told my friends,
And implied the words were not mine.
But they only laughed
And pushed my head into the penumbra of light.
"Look, look, they eagerly cried;
His face is like thunder, like...
NPoems by Nicolae Sirius about home, affection, need, light, autumn, question, wish, hope, house, word
Unwords
He offered me a leaf like a hand with fingers.
I offered him a hand like a leaf with teeth.
He offered me a branch like an arm.
I offered him my arm like a branch.
He tipped his trunk towards me
like a shoulder.
I tipped my shoulder to...
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Proverbs and old sayings British
Society is like a pot it can't carry water when its broken.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about society, water
Time makes hay.
Proverbs and old sayings German about time
Because of lack of talent in dancing, the floor is blamed.
Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about talent
A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love
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
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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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...
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...
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...
