Willows are weak, yet…
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. / Better bend, than break. / Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. More »
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. / Better bend, than break. / Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. More »
The pot calls the kettle black. / As good twenty as nineteen. More »
Things longed for seem long in coming. / A watched pot [pan] never boils. / A watched pot is long in boiling. More »
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 – 73) More »
Busiest men find the most time. More »
The one word you’ll need is no. – Bette Davis [Ruth Elizabeth Davis] (1908 – 89) More »
The gentleman is harmonious but not conformable; the small man is conformable but not harmonious. – Confucius (551? – 479B.C.): Lun Yü [The Analects (of Confucius)] (trans. by Kô Shyôrin (1958 – )) More »
Strike the iron while it is hot. [Strike while the iron is hot.] / Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. – Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) / (Tomorrow never comes…) / (It’s… More »
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. -… More »
Learning without thought is labor [labour] lost; thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius (551? – 479B.C.): Lun Yü [The Analects (of Confucius)] / (Liberty without…) More »