Education makes…
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. – Erich Fromm (1900 – 80) More »
Category: English(-Japanese) Quotations and Sayings: 英語(-日本語)の名言ことわざ
The sky is not going…
The sky is not going to fall. – Chicken Little [Henny Penny] (a folk tale) / (“The sky is falling!” is an idiom indicating a mistaken belief that disaster is imminent.) More »
Hope is such a bait…
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. – Ben Jonson [Benjamin Jonson] (1572 – 1637) More »
There are three…
![IMAGE: There are three kinds of memory [memories]: good, bad and convenient.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/photo-256887_640-200x132.jpg)
There are three kinds of memory [memories]: good, bad and convenient. – Charles Kuralt (1934 – 1997) More »
Yesterday is history…
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. – (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) More »
If you don’t like it…
![IMAGE: If you don't like it, you can lump it. [If you don't like it, you'll have to lump it. / Like it or lump it!]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hail-123042_640-200x150.jpg)
If you don’t like it, you can lump it. [If you don’t like it, you’ll have to lump it. / Like it or lump it!] More »
Expectation is…
![IMAGE: Expectation is better than realization. / There is a great difference between the fame and the reality. [The reality falls far short of the fame.] / The reality (always) falls short of the fame. [The reality often belies the fame.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/i-do-not-see-2384621_640-200x135.jpg)
Expectation is better than realization. / There is a great difference between the fame and the reality. [The reality falls far short of the fame.] / The reality (always) falls short of the fame. [The reality often belies the fame.] More »
Opposites…
Opposites attract. More »
Nobody’s…
Nobody’s perfect. More »
It is a paradoxical…
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. – Arnold… 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)
![IMAGE: Do not pass judgment, that you may not be judged; for the way you judge you will be judged and with what yardstick you measure you will be measured. But why notice the splinter in your brother's eye without taking notice of the beam in your own eye? [Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sculpture-3408348_640-100x66.jpg)
