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Saint Valentines Day

Saint Valentines Day. Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. Jim Gaffigan I claim there ain’t Another Saint As great as Valentine. Ogden Nash If you are really interested in this …

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 …

Quotes on Love

Quotes on love, aphorisms, ideas, thoughts and reflections on the main human phenomenon that can produce joy, life, and also a bit of sorrow. Quotes on love. Teach only love for that …

Best quotes on love

Best quotes on love. Faith is a mystery, love is a mystery, death is a mystery! However, I have never liked mysteries. Carl William Brown Teach only love for that is what …

Great quotes on love

Great quotes on love. Great aphorisms, quotations and ideas on love and lover selected by famous authors with a complete free e-book of quotes to download. Great quotes on love. I have …

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree, an article that explains its legend, origin and tradition, with some enlightening merry quotes to enrich the great value of the Christmas period. Snowflakes felt so awesome in winter …

Christmas thoughts

Christmas Thoughts, reflections, ideas, various opinions and some quotes on Christmas by the World of English and good will English-culture blog I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come …

Christmas in Italy

Christmas in Italy, traditions, customs, habits, markets, an article that explains all about the Christmas period in Italy with also the famous panettone recipe. In Italy today, Christmas is a time for …

Christmas quotes

Christmas great quotes and memorable aphorisms by The world of English, that is the English-Culture.com Blog and Carl William Brown. The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate …

Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes

Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes, a collection of aphorisms for Thanksgiving Day to remind us the true and powerful effect of a genuine spirit of thankfulness. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness …

Sports quotes

Sports quotes, aphorisms and ideas on athletes, life, perseverance and competition by the World of English blog. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, …

Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude

Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude, a collection of ideas to recognize emotions to express appreciation for what is important for living together gratefully. Every year, September 21 is World Gratitude Day, a …

Best quotes and aphorisms on dogs

Best quotes and aphorisms on dogs, ideas, thoughts and opinions by famous authors, writers and artists on the most loved pet friend that faithfully live with us. The meeting in the open …

Thoughts and reflections on cats

Thoughts and reflections on cats, ideas, opinions, speculations and observations of various great authors and famous people on the most loved of pets, the cat. The uncertainty of cats has been thrown …

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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