It’s hard enough to…
It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. – Jack Lemmon (1925 – 2001) More »
Category: English(-Japanese) Quotations and Sayings: 英語(-日本語)の名言ことわざ
No-one on earth…
No-one on earth could feel like this. / I’m thrown and overblown with bliss. / There must be an angel / Playing with my heart. // I walk into an empty room / And suddenly my heart goes “boom”! /… More »
How suddenly the morning…
How suddenly the morning comes in Spring! / On every side you hear the sweet birds sing. / Last night amidst the storm, I wonder who can tell, / With wind and rain, how many blossoms fell? // – Meng… More »
If the mountain will…
If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain. – Muhammad [Mohammed， Mahomet] (570 – 632) More »
Once you replace negative…
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson (1933 – ) More »
At Nikitatsu We have…
At Nikitatsu / We have waited for the moon / Before boarding our boat; / Now the tide is in at last — / Come, let’s get to rowing! // – Princess Nukata [Nukata no Ōkimi] (c.630? – c.690?) –… More »
Into each life some…
Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary. // – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 82): The Rainy Day / Into every life a little rain must fall, / Some days must be… More »
Learn to love broadly…
Learn to love broadly, deeply and devotedly, and your lives cannot fail. With nobler desires, greater earnestness and wider sympathy not limited to just a few, but taking in the many even beyond the home, the weakest of us may… More »
As a well-spent…
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) More »
Art must take reality…
Art must take reality by surprise. – Françoise Sagan [real name: Françoise Quoirez] (1935 – 2004) More »
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