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Famous Quotes in English to inspire you and learn from.
The distance does not matter – Quote
Oct 3rd
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 QuoteDistance is referring to a journey towards a particular goal. The quote is suggesting that the initial step is often More >
Quote about Experience by Oscar Wilde
Aug 29th
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. More >
Falling into water Quote
Aug 22nd
The Quote…
You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous VocabularyDrown = to die in a liquid (usually water) because you cannot breathe. It normally happens when water (or other liquid) enters the lungs.
GrammarBy + Gerund = to describe how to do things = More >
Quote about being on the right track
Aug 8th
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 More >
Never made a mistake Einstein Quote
Jul 25th
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 making mistakes isn’t More >
Einstein quote about Education
Jul 18th
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 (UK) More >
What is beautiful is good
Jul 11th
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 More >
The art of being kind Quote
Jul 4th
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 More >
Make the most of the best
Jun 27th
“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
Thoughts More >
Happy man in a happy place
Jun 20th
“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 we feel down More >
