Quotes - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

English Jokes

Jokes 02:

How do you starve a black man?
hide his food stamps under his work boots

English Jokes

Joke 01:

Why did the cop stay in bed?
He wanted to be an undercover cop

Quotes - Lisa M. Klein

Lisa M. Klein:

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Quotes - William Cowper

William Cowper:

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavor.

Quotes - Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova:

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Proverb - A good husband makes a good wife

A good husband makes a good wife:

If a woman is happy with her husband, she will be a good mate for him.

Idiom - Knock your socks off

Knock your socks off:

If something knocks your socks off, it amazes you and surprises you.

When Nora did her presentation on the new development, she knocked our socks off. It was very impressive.

Michael knocked everyone's socks off when he performed at the music awards. It was the best performance of the night, by far.

Persian:  به وجد اوردن

Story - Honk if You're in a Hurry

Honk if You're in a Hurry:

Mark was cursing the driver in front of him because she was creeping along. He was running late for a golf game with his friend Barney. He was on a two-lane road that led to the golf course. The road was straight uphill. It went for six blocks through a busy residential neighborhood. There was a four-way stop sign at the end of each block.

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Quotes - Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry:

Poems are never finished - just abandoned.

Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Quotes - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein:

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Idiom - A head start

A head start:

If you have a head start, you start something ahead of others or with an advantage over others.

If you're born into a rich family, and you've had a good education, you're lucky enough to have had a head start in life, so don't waste it.

Marylin's beauty and natural grace gave her a big head start in the modelling and acting business.

Quotes - Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke:

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Vocabulary - Unibrow

Unibrow:

Eyebrows which are connected to each other forming one eyebrow.

Persian: ابرو پیوندی

Quotes - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens:

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Quotes - Vixen Phillips

Vixen Phillips:

Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose.

Quotes - George Orwell

George Orwell:

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Vocabulary - Lane Splitting

Lane Splitting:

Riding a motorcycle between two traffic lanes between cars.

There were a ton of cars on the roads during rush hour, so I started lane splitting to get ahead of the traffic.

Quotes - Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes:

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Quotes - William E. Gladstone

William E. Gladstone:

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Idiom - Out to lunch

Out to lunch:

If someone is “out to lunch”, it means that they are “clueless” or just “have no idea what they doing or thinking”.

Her husband is cheating on her and she has no idea at all. She’s so out to lunch. It's sad to watch.

There is no way that little restaurant will succeed.  It is in a terrible location and almost no customers will find it. The owner is really out to lunch.  I hate to say it, but I’m guessing it will fail in 6 months or less.

Persian: بی خبر

Quotes - Banri Hidaka

Banri Hidaka:

My feelings for you are like the stillness of the sand they make no sound as they're washed away.

Quotes - Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst:

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Story - Eat Your Vegetables

Eat Your Vegetables:

The federal government, displaying even less sense than usual, has yielded to the French fry industry. Frozen French fries—sliced, fried in oil, and then packaged—are now approved as “fresh vegetables” by the US Department of Agriculture.

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Idiom - No Brainer

No Brainer:

If something is a “no brainer”, it means that it’s a “very easy decision“.  It means that you do not need to think hard about the choice at all because the proper decision should be so obvious.

Let’s go to the Italian restaurant today because everything on the menu is half price for only today.  We can go to the other restaurant another day.  This is a no brainer.

Why don’t you date Jamie instead of Kate?  Jamie is much more beautiful and she’s a lot friendlier as well.  It should be a real no brainer.

Quotes - Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt:

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Quotes - Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks:

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

Quotes - Robert Frost

Robert Frost:

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

Quotes - Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton:

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.