There are two kinds…
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K. [Hermann Kotzschmar] Curtis (1850 – 1933) (Image by Ryan McGuire… More »
Category: English(-J) Quotes starting with O-U : O-U で始まる英語(-日)の名言
The style is the man…
The style is the man himself. – Georges-Louis Leclerc， Comte de Buffon (1707 – 88): Discourse on Style (Image by rawpixel from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Old garden lake…
Old garden lake! / The frog thy depths doth seek, / And sleeping echoes wake. // – Matsuo Bashô [Bashō] (1644 – 94); trans. by Hidesaburo Saito [斎藤秀三郎] (1866 – 1929) (Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound… More »
An old thing becomes…
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson (1901 – 99) (Image by Felix Lichtenfeld from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Poverty wants some…
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things. – Abraham Cowley (1618 – 67) (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Poverty dulls the…
Poverty dulls the wit. (Image by 177789 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
There’s a difference…
There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. – John Erskine (1879 – 1951) (Image 1 by Shahid Shafiq from Pixabay) (Image 2 by Shahid Shafiq… More »
To avoid criticism…
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 – 1915) (Image by kai kalhh from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
People will accept…
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. (Image by WorldSpectrum from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
To rob Peter to pay…
![IMAGE: To rob Peter to pay Paul. [To borrow from Peter to pay Paul. / To unclothe Peter to clothe Paul.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/paul-1158086_640-200x150.jpg)
To rob Peter to pay Paul. [To borrow from Peter to pay Paul. / To unclothe Peter to clothe Paul.] / (To take from one person or thing to give to another.) (Image by falco from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound… More »
![IMAGE: I never lose. I either win or learn. [Either I win or I learn.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nelson-mandela-539834_640-100x67.jpg)
