When one door closes…
![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-200x150.jpg)
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us]. – Alexander… More »
Category: English(-J) Quotes starting with V-Z : V-Z で始まる英語(-日)の名言
You can do anything…
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. – Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) More »
Words are flowing out…
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, / They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe. // Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, / Possessing and caressing me.… More »
A wise man, recognizing…
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. – Gautama Siddhārtha [Buddha / Shakyamuni] (566? – 480B.C.) More »
We are still a…
We are still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons. – Mary Steichen Calderone (1904 – 98) More »
You can’t hold a…
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. – Booker T(aliaferro) Washington (1856 – 1915) More »
When a man sits…
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein (1879… More »
We can easily forgive…
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato [Platon] (427 – 347B.C.) More »
When the woman saw…
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave… More »
The way to love…
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton (1874 – 1936) 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)
