The distance doesn’t matter; it is only the first step that is difficult. Marquise de Deffand, 1697 – 1780 Vocabulary To matter – (verb) to have significance or importance Thoughts on the Quote Distance is referring to a journey towards a particular goal. The quote is suggesting that the initial step is often more challenging [...]
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes Oscar Wilde What is experience? The process of gaining knowledge or skill over time by seeing or doing instead of by studying. Study is theoretical, Experience is practical. What are mistakes? An action that is not done correctly or words that are wrong. An error. Have [...]
The Quote… You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Vocabulary Drown = to die in a liquid (usually water) because you cannot breathe. It normally happens when water (or other liquid) enters the lungs. Grammar By + Gerund = to describe how to do things = to say [...]
Keep in mind that even if you’re on the right track, you can still be left behind if you just sit there. – Anonymous Vocabulary To keep in mind – Remember; Keep something in your thoughts. Don’t forget about something To be on the right track – to be heading, or going, in the [...]
The Quote Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein VOCABULARY Mistake (noun) = an error What does it mean? Einstein is saying that if you have never made a mistake before then you haven’t done anything new. He is saying that doing things wrong and [...]
The Quote Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein VOCABULARY To remain (verb) = to stay behind To forget (verb) = to not remember Remember that there are two ways of writing the past tense and past participle of the verb To Learn: Learnt [...]
The Quote What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. – Sappho (died 610 B.C.) Greek lyric poet Thoughts on the Quote There’s a common proverb similar to this one, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, meaning that each person determines for himself whether what he [...]
The Quote So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Cox, 1850 – 1919 American writer and poet VOCABULARY Creed – a set of principles or opinions, especially with regard to philosophies of life. [...]
The Quote “Make the most of the best and the least of the worst” Robert Luis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer and poet VOCABULARY To make the most of something means to get as many advantages and to extract as many benefits as possible out of an opportunity. The least – the minimum possible of something [...]
The Quote “It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.” Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683), English philosopher and theologian VOCABULARY Unless = except if State = the condition of a person or thing Thoughts on the Quote Often when [...]