Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. – Alonzo Newton Benn (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Charity begins at home. (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: Clear water breeds no fish. [Clear water has no fish. / Water which is too pure has no fish.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sea-2169392_640-200x133.jpg)
Clear water breeds no fish. [Clear water has no fish. / Water which is too pure has no fish.] More »
![IMAGE: Care killed the cat. [Care killed a cat.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cat-1561948_640-200x113.jpg)
Care killed the cat. [Care killed a cat.] More »
![IMAGE: Custom is a second nature. [Custom is second nature.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/alarm-clock-2132264_640-200x131.jpg)
Custom is a second nature. [Custom is second nature.] More »
Children should be seen and not heard. More »
“A classic”: a book which people praise and don’t read. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) More »
Curiosity killed the cat. More »
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) More »
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) More »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: There is no time like the present. / Never put off till tomorrow what may be done [what you can do] today. / Defer not until tomorrow if you can do it today.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/forward-412761_640-100x75.jpg)
