Phrases

sweet are the uses of adversity 苦盡甘來

 

Frank Lloyd Wright

“While being young is an accident of time, youth is a permanent state of mind.”

(This from a man who was still designing houses when he died at age 91, Frank Lloyd Wright.)

 

Earl Nightingale

“We become what we think about most of the time.”

 

Albert Einstein

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”

 

“Rome wasn’t built in a day” is the usual English translation of a French phrase, Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour, first known from Le Proverbe au Vilain (c. 1190), and listed in John Heywood‘s A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue (c.1538).