Quotations are a good way of practicing English. English culture has been focally defined through its high literature by which many important ideas and concepts have been articulated. A very fun exercise for students is to have them memorize a quote or read a memorable passage from a classic text, and then to recite them out-doors before the entire class as if they were famous writers, statesmen or orators. This is a good way of getting students comfortable with speaking loudly and clearly in English, and to develop their self-confidence and social confidence in the medium of English.

We will periodically update and enlarge our quotations page. Quotations may occupy a huge volume--Shakespeare alone was noteworthy for many quotable lines. We will eventually arrange our quotations by topic category and cross-reference this with a person index.

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Until we lose ourselves, there is no hope of finding ourselves.--Henry Miller

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I believe in democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. --Woodrow Wilson

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He that falls in love within himself will have no rivals.--Benjamin Franklin

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All history is propaganda of the victorious. --Anonymous

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The wise only posses ideas; the greater part of mankind is possessed by them. --Anonymous

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All that we know is, nothing can be known.--Lord Byron

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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. --Fredrick Hebbel

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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.--William Shakespeare

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.--Francis Bacon

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.--Indira Gandhi

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The most famous quotes are by Anonymous.--Anonymous

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Silence is one great art of conversation. --William Hazlitt

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Know that you are a part of the whole scheme of things--a part of the universe. --Buckminster Fuller

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Be good, and you will be lonesome.--Mark Twain.

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There never was a good war or a bad peace.--Benjamin Franklin

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"X" marks the spot.--Anonymous

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Youth's a stuff will not endure.--William Shakespeare

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Academia is a human zoo of knowledge. --Anonymous