Emil Baschnonga(*1941), Schweizer Schriftsteller und Aphoristiker

noun: In a church, a person appointed as a lay leader to a position below a pastor, priest, etc. verb tr.: 1. To present the best part of something. 2. To pack or arrange in a way so that the finest pieces (such as fruit) are visible. 3. To adulterate; to doctor; to falsify. 4….

«C'è una bella differenza tra le leadership femminili e femministe. Sono una donna, amo un'altra donna, non sono una madre, ma non per questo sono meno donna.»

noun: 1. A feather or a wing, especially the terminal segment of a wing. 2. A small cogwheel engaging with a larger wheel or a rack. verb tr.: 1. To cut or bind the wing of a bird. 2. To bind, restrain, shackle, etc.

Definition: (verb) To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud. Synonyms: deceive, delude, lead on. Usage: He has wronged me and deceived me enough, he shall not cozen me further! Discuss

«La guerra è il sistema più spiccio per trasmettere una cultura.»

Guido Peters(1866 – 1937), österreichischer Komponist und Pianist

Definition: (noun) A technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients. Synonyms: aquiculture, tank farming. Usage: The soil where he lived was poor in nutrients, so he decided to try his luck with hydroponics. Discuss

«Le bugie sono per natura così feconde, che una ne suole partorir cento.» (Carlo Goldoni)

Definition: (verb) To make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish. Synonyms: furbish, buff, flush. Usage: Every afternoon, she would obsessively burnish the floors until the parlor gleamed like an ice rink. Discuss

«Il mistero della vita sta nella ricerca della bellezza.» (Billy Wilder)

Deutsches Sprichwort

adverb, adjective: Without payment; free.

Definition: (adjective) Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse. Synonyms: compendious, summary, compact. Usage: Some students enjoyed the teacher's succinct style, while others wished she would elaborate on certain topics. Discuss

«Chi sa vedere le cose belle è perché ha la bellezza dentro di sé.» (Gustav Klimt)

Wolfgang Buschmann(*1943), Lehrer und Autor

adverb, adjective: 1. Awry 2. Wrong.

«Chi sa vedere le cose belle è perché ha la bellezza dentro di sé.»

Heinz Potthoff(1875 – 1945), deutscher Sozialreformer und liberaler Politiker

adverb, adjective: Toward the left side.

Definition: (verb) To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest. Synonyms: express, show. Usage: The baby couldn't tell us she disliked the cereal, but she evinced her distaste by grimacing. Discuss

Wolfgang Mocker(1954 – 2009), deutscher Journalist und Autor

adverb, adjective: 1. At the rear of a ship or another vessel. 2. In a reverse direction. 3. Backward.

Definition: (noun) Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit. Synonyms: craftiness, foxiness, slyness, wiliness, cunning. Usage: Her mild eyes seemed incapable of any severity or guile, and yet she has committed a murder. Discuss

Huey Colbinger(*1976), Songwriter & Lyriker

adverb: By memory; by heart. adjective: Involving memorization.

Definition: (verb) To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally. Synonyms: renounce. Usage: The King abdicated the throne when he married a divorcee. Discuss

Definition: (noun) A serviceman in the artillery. Synonyms: gunner, artilleryman. Usage: You were a cannoneer that day there, and you were among the first to enter the accursed fortress when it fell. Discuss

«Ho paura di Non riconoscerti mai più Non credo più alle favole So che ho un posto ma non qui Tra le tue grida in loop Corro via su una cabriolet Di noi resteranno soltanto ricordi confusi Pezzi di vetro Mi spegni le luci se solo tieni gli occhi chiusi Mi rendi cieco Ti penso…

Alexander Engel(1868 – 1940), österreichischer Schriftsteller

Definition: (noun) A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values. Synonyms: anti-intellectual. Usage: He may have an advanced degree in mathematics, but the man is a total philistine when it comes to the arts. Discuss

Sylvia Tubbesing

adjective: 1. Greenish. 2. Turning green.

Definition: (verb) To be full of things; abound or swarm. Synonyms: pullulate, swarm. Usage: The street teemed with hundreds of policemen who questioned every potential witness. Discuss

«Amami quando lo merito meno: ne ho più bisogno.» (Gaio Valerio Catullo)

Rudolf Presber(1868 – 1935), deutscher Journalist, Dichter, Dramatiker, Romancier und Erzähler

Definition: (noun) The highest point. Synonyms: acme, vertex, peak. Usage: Though he was afraid of heights, he forced himself to climb to the roof's apex to fix the leak. Discuss

«Ci sono ingiustizia, confusione, criminale ignoranza, virtù corrotta e invertita, ipocrisia e cecità di pietra in ogni sfera della vita. Se soltanto per un momento il mondo occidentale potesse far cadere i veli che, fin dai tempi della Riforma, gli si sono attaccati addosso come le croste di una malattia, e guardare, con occhi illuminati,…

«Amami quando lo merito meno: ne ho più bisogno.»

Heinrich Martin(1818 – 1872), deutscher Schriftsteller, Pseudonym für Heinrich Martin Jaenicke

adjective: 1. Straw-colored. 2. Of or relating to straw. 3. Like straw: Valueless.

Definition: (adjective) Strikingly conspicuous. Synonyms: prominent, outstanding, striking, spectacular. Usage: I took in much of this in the few seconds during which we stood facing each other, and I also observed another salient feature of her appearance: she was frightfully dirty. Discuss

Ernst Ferstl(*1955), österreichischer Lehrer, Dichter und Aphoristiker

adjective: Of the color silver or white.

«Chi non accetta il giudizio degli altri limita la possibilità di migliorarsi.» (Pierluigi Collina)

«L'amore consiste in questo, che due solitudini si proteggono a vicenda, si toccano, si salutano.»

Hans Ossenbach(1874 – 1945), deutscher Schriftsteller und Dichter

adjective: Bronze- or brass-colored.

Definition: (noun) A fire-breathing dragon of Germanic mythology. Synonyms: dragon. Usage: Unlike other firedrakes, the dragon in this story liked to recite poetry and was a connoisseur of fine wines. Discuss

Deutsches Sprichwort

Definition: (noun) A place where an extensive variety of woody plants are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes. Synonyms: botanical garden. Usage: The botany class took a field trip to the arboretum to examine its extensive collection of rare plants. Discuss

«Siamo i soli svegli in tutto l'universo E non conosco ancora bene il tuo deserto Forse è in un posto del mio cuore Dove il sole è sempre spento Dove a volte ti perdo Ma se voglio ti prendo Siamo fermi in un tempo così Che solleva le strade Con il cielo ad un passo…

Aus den USA

noun: The systematic description of diseases.

Definition: (noun) A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.). Synonyms: monocracy, dictatorship. Usage: The people had philosophical problems with the shogunate, but they had to admit that trade and commerce were flourishing under its rule. Discuss

«Non puoi combattere una guerra da solo Il cuore è un’armatura Ci salva ma si consuma, A volte chiedere aiuto ci fa paura Ma basta un solo passo come Il primo uomo sulla luna, Perché da fuori non si vede quante volte hai pianto Si nasce soli e si muore nel cuore di qualcun altro…

Emanuel Geibel(1815 – 1884), deutscher Lyriker und Dramatiker

adjective: Relating to coarse humor of sexual nature. noun: A person who uses such language or humor.

noun: The omission of a letter or syllable in writing.

Definition: (noun) Supreme blessedness or happiness. Synonyms: blessedness, beatification. Usage: You have it in your power to raise two human beings from a state of actual suffering to such unspeakable beatitude as only generous, noble, self-forgetting love can give. Discuss

KarlHeinz Karius(*1935), Urheber, Mensch und Werbeberater

noun: 1. A diplomatic mission ranking below an embassy. 2. The premises of such a mission. 3. The diplomat and staff of such a mission.

Definition: (noun) A large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: hatful, lot, mint, muckle, peck, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight. Usage: It was only when he found a mickle of old letters in the basement that he learned his grandmother had been a…

adjective: Strong in war, battle, contest, etc.

Definition: (noun) An inert substance used to dilute. Synonyms: dilutant. Usage: The artist thinned the paint to a pale yellow using a diluent and a bit of white. Discuss

Ulrich Erckenbrecht(*1947), deutscher Schriftsteller und Aphoristiker (Pseudonym: Hans Ritz)

Definition: (noun) A frame with legs, used to support pieces of wood being sawed. Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck. Usage: While thus engaged they came to the edge of a wood, and the boy sat down to rest upon an old sawhorse that some woodcutter had left there. Discuss

Alexander Eilers(*1976), Aphoristiker

Definition: (noun) A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse). Synonyms: feedbag. Usage: The stableboy replaced the horse's nosebag, which had torn in two places. Discuss

«Non offendere la patria di Agata, perché è vendicatrice delle ingiurie. » (Sant’Agata)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg(1742 – 1799), deutscher Physiker und Meister des Aphorismus

noun: Residue or remainder. verb tr.: 1. To wash or bathe. 2. To flow. 3. To pour.

Definition: (adjective) Intended to instruct. Synonyms: didactical. Usage: "The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence." Discuss

Definition: (adjective) Characterized by or causing the absorption of heat; endoergic. Synonyms: heat-absorbing, endothermal. Usage: Endothermic reactions are often described as reactions that "feel cold," and they contrast with exothermic reactions, in which heat is released. Discuss

«Perché essere difficili quando con un minimo sforzo potete diventare impossibili?» (Buster Keaton)

Waltraud Puzicha(1925 – 2013), deutsche Aphoristikerin

noun: 1. An eccentric or crazy person. 2. An ornamental typographical symbol, such as ?, ?, ?, ?. 3. An object, such as a brick, used as a missile. 4. A gadget or an object whose name is unknown or forgotten. Aka, thingamajig, gizmo, etc. 5. A two- to three-story boxy apartment building with parking…

Definition: (adjective) That cannot be transferred to another or others. Synonyms: unforfeitable. Usage: When he decided to fight for his inalienable rights, he did not realize that his actions would go down in history. Discuss

«La mia vera natura è quella di una donna a cui il destino ha dato compiti da uomo, ma che li ha sempre assolti senza tradire l'affettività femminile.» (Fernanda Wittgens)

«La mia vera natura è quella di una donna a cui il destino ha dato compiti da uomo, ma che li ha sempre assolti senza tradire l'affettività femminile.»