If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) (Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound… More »
Look if you like, but you will have to leap. – W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 – 73): Leap before You Look More »
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got. – Sophia Loren (1934 – ) More »
(In the Universe it may be that) Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018) (Image by Stefan Keller from… More »
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F(itzgerald) Kennedy (1917 – 63) More »
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
If I wasn’t hard, I wouldn’t be alive. If I couldn’t ever be gentle, I wouldn’t deserve to be alive. – Philip Marlowe — Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959): PLAYBACK ch.25 More »
If you clap your hands: the maid will make tea (for you), the birds will fly away (from you), the carp will come close (to you); at Sarusawa Pond. (translation by Okamoto Ken [Take Moon OK] (1963 – )) (Image… More »
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. – Steven Wright (1955 – ) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
If you love somebody, / If you love someone, / If you love somebody, / If you love someone, // Set them free, / Set them free, / Set them free, / Set them free. // – Sting (1951 -… More »
A red sun hath water…
常に心せよ、流れに…
シーザーの妻は疑惑を…
Don't just dream…
さよなら…寂しいよ…
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