The World of English

Carnival festival

Carnival festival, an article that analyses the meaning of this celebration in the Christian societies with references to the most famous world Carnival parades and the Mardi Gras day. The principle of …

Olympic Games Quotes

Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website. The …

The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games short story, an article by English-Culture.com blog for sport lovers and students of English all over the world. Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Welcome to …

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day, an article with texts, images and quotes that is taken from an online exhibition and from an Italian English e-book (Free) made at school. What happened cannot be undone, …

The Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games, an article that illustrates how this great sporting manifestation was born, with some famous athletes stories and their achievements. Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website. The …

International Days List

International Days list, promoted by the United Nations as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to create awareness and action on these issues. The United Nations designates specific days, …

War and peace quotes

War and peace quotes, aphorisms, ideas and thoughts about the dramatic difference between the effects of war and the desire of human kind for peace and love. World Day of Peace, celebrated …

Guy Fawkes story

Guy Fawkes story and the Gunpowder plot, an easy article for students of English that explains the origin of the story with its celebrations and customs. A desperate disease requires a dangerous …

Halloween death poems

Halloween death poems, dead spirits and departed souls with the passed away essence of our ancestors existing around the living by the World of English that is English-culture.com Halloween for the year …

Halloween quotes

Halloween quotes, ideas, thoughts, jokes, images and aphorisms by the World of English or English-culture.com Halloween for the year 2025 is celebrated/observed on Friday, October 31st. Tis the night – the night …

Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve

Halloween holiday, October 31, story and legend. As the eve of All Saints’ Day, it is a religious holiday among some Christians. Halloween for the year 2025 is celebrated/observed on Friday, October …

Halloween thoughts and poems

Halloween thoughts and poems, quotes and aphorisms by the World of English, that is English-culture.com blog and Carl William Brown Halloween for the year 2025 is celebrated/observed on Friday, October 31st. What …

Independence Day

Independence Day of the American Nation, History, Celebrations, Curiosities, Quotes and Cultural Traditions. The United States of America is celebrating its 248th birthday on Thursday, July 4th, 2024. Those who deny freedom …

Juneteenth or Freedom Day

Juneteenth or Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the ending of slavery. History of America is incomplete without the Juneteenth because …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown

A good aphorism should not only highlight obvious things, even if expressed in an original way, but also evoke solutions, though unpleasant for human stupidity.
Carl William Brown

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Carl William Brown

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.
Boethius