Learn Through Quotations
Explore memorable ideas and discover useful English vocabulary in real context.
Quotations
Showing 1–24 of 168 quotations matching the selected filter
“All Things Bright and Beautiful . For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.”
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”
“The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.”
“At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.”
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
“Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.”
“Laziness is often mistaken for patience.”
“More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.”
“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”
“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.”
“Man is a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack.”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“Feelings are not supposed to be logical.Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.”
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit .”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Learn beyond the quote
Read the central idea, explore the author and themes, and follow highlighted vocabulary directly into Edvaya's vocabulary library.