Youth’s a stuff will not endure. – William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III / (You won’t be young forever.) (Image by Николай Оберемченко from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
Of two disputants, the warmer is generally in the wrong. (Image by suju from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
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Be faithful to thyself. [Be faithful to yourself.] / Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. – André Gide (1869 – 1951) (Image by reenablack from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
One good turn deserves another. / He who gives to another bestows on himself. (Image by rawpixel on Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks. – Manolin — Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961): The Old Man and the Sea More »
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961) More »
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” I am sorry that I killed the fish though, he thought. – Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 – 1961): The Old Man and the… More »
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset. – Charles Dickens [Charles John Huffam Dickens] (1812 – 70): A… More »
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – Henry J.[John] Kaiser (1882 – 1967) More »
By the look in your eye, I can tell you’re gonna cry. Is it over me? / If it is, save your tears. For I’m not worth it, you see. // For I’m the type of boy who is always… More »
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