The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819 – 80) (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
I must be cruel, only to be kind. – William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Hamlet (Image by Szilárd Szabó from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – Stendhal (1783 – 1842) (Image by Quang Nguyen vinh from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – André Gide (1869 – 1951) (Image by Youssef Jheir from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
![IMAGE: East and West, Home is best. [East, west, home's best.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/weather-vane-323084_640-200x150.jpg)
East and West, Home is best. [East, west, home’s best.] (Image by succo from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. (Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Reason rules all things. (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Soon ripe, soon rotten. (Image by Bishnu Sarangi from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: There are plenty of other pebbles on the beach. [There are plenty of other pebbles on the shore].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pebbles-2796732_640-200x112.jpg)
There are plenty of other pebbles on the beach. [There are plenty of other pebbles on the shore]. (Image by rhysthomas88 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![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: Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks only once.] / Opportunity seldom knocks twice.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tea-680540_640-100x67.jpg)
