Learn English Through Quotes
Great quotes
In Alphabetical Order by author
| Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. ~ My mum (1929-2004) |
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. |
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| "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is
suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends.
If they are okay, then it's you." ~ Rita Mae Brown (Born 1944) |
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| "God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
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"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." ~ Mary Ellen Chase (1887–1973) |
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." |
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| "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." ~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - Read the book free online |
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| "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." ~ Elizabeth Drew (Born 1935) |
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| " Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~ Malcolm S. Forbes (1917 - 1990) |
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When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather. |
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| "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great s treetsweeper who did his job well." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) |
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| It's Tommy this an' Tommy that an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute," But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot. ~Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) |
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. |
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"I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar" |
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| I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ~ H. L. Mencken (1880-1956 ) |
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." |
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"England and America are two countries divided by a common language." |
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| "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
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| Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really
like, and then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work though. Someone
would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say good-bye.
I hate good-byes. I know what I need; I need more hellos. ~ Snoopy. |
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| I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph. ~ Shirley Temple (Born 1928) |
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| Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle
age is when you're forced to." ~ Bill Vaughan (Born 1915) |
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| Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~ Oprah Winfrey (Born 1954) |
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