Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they...
Quote by Charles W. Eliot about books, teachers
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He who follows two hares loses both.
Proverbs and old sayings LatinA fortress surrenders from within.
Proverbs and old sayings BulgarianHandsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall, manEvents of the day 20 March
235:
Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor.
673:
Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
1206:
Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600:
The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
M1940:
Was born Mihai Ispirescu.
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It is allowed to learn even from the enemy.
Quote by Publius Ovidius Naso about teaching, enemies
The only fortune is love and glory.
Quote by Mihai Ispirescu about wealth, glory, love
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually...
Quote by Charles W. Eliot about world, contentment
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...
Quote by Albert Einstein about thinking
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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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,...
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, childrenChristmas Also Came Here
Christmas also came here
To soothe our pain,
White snow is falling over my life
It’s snowing over my soul,
White snow is falling
Over my life
That ends here.
The star begins to shine
On the holy manger
And once again three magi...
Songs by Tudor Gheorghe about christmas, pain, sin, life, end, angels, tears, dream, soul, celebrityThe 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, eyesFolklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about silence, contentment
A bull is not known in two herds.
Proverbs and old sayings
He was born with a caul.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Blessings are better than wealth.
Proverbs and old sayings about wealth
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...
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...
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...
