Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about people
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The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
Proverbs and old sayings BritishOne cannot please everybody and one's father.
Proverbs and old sayings FrenchThe early bird catcheth the worm.
Proverbs and old sayings FrenchAsk God for what man can give, and you may get it.
Proverbs and old sayings English about god, man, contentmentEvents of the day 26 September
M1947:
Was born M. Ion Dumitru.
S1932:
Was born Stefan Oprea.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about intelligence
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the...
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about attitude, knowledge, wisdom, life
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must...
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, literary critic, emotions, poets
You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian...
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I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am....
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Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction...
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of...
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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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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,...
Poems by 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, childrenThe poet
A soul in the soul of my people am I
And sing of its sorrows and joys,
For mine are your wounds and I cry
Whenever you do, drinking dry
That chalice of poison that's meant for Fate's toys.
Whatever your pathway, together we'll ail,...
Poems by George Coșbuc about people, contentment, heart, destiny, soul, drinking, things, man, hate, earthIn 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
Folklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Making money on manure is better than losing money on musk.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about money
The right hand is slave to the left.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rightness
Love and attention make all things grow.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about attention, things, love
Even champions make mistakes -- there is no one who doesn't.
Proverbs and old sayings Taiwanese
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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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...
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...
