When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
Quote by Brian Aldiss about childhood
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So not roast all your corn in the winter.
Proverbs and old sayingsA tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about moment, smile, rightnessHe tells, does something to somebody without announcement.
Proverbs and old sayings HungarianDesperate times call for desperate measures.
Proverbs and old sayings EnglishEvents of the day 18 August
E1969:
Was born Edward Norton.
Famous quotes
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Quote by Elayne Boosler about film, comedy, silence
We do not own this place, we are just passengers.
Quote by Robert Redford about world
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty...
Quote by Elayne Boosler about humor, ancestors, man
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.
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, eyesTime 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, childrenYesterday
What was yesterday like?
Ah, yesterday was yesterday.
I remember the order of stars:
Three were alike, three were alone
One was fostering a bigger star
With a wing flapping over the sea
Distended from another ocean.
It had no...
NPoems by Nicolae Sirius
The 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, celebrityFolklore
Right words said by the forefathers folklore: proverbs and old sayings, traditions and superstitions, spells and incantations, traditional songs, riddles, carols.Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fishing, life
The more danger, the more honor.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about danger
In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
A bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush.
Proverbs and old sayings Finnish
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...
