English-phrases and Quotation

Feelings of happiness • Jason was whistling merrily as he walked home from school. • Mary looked very pleased when her friends sang her a song. • Steve was grinning from ear to ear when his parents praised him. • Julian flushed with delight when he was declared as the winner of the competition. • Peter skipped home cheerfully after school. • The girls were in high spirits when they realised that they have made it to the final round of the singing competition. • The dog wagged its tail happily as it followed its owner for a walk in the park. • She was as happy as a lark.

Speech (Feelings of happiness) • “That was amazing!” Jill cried in delight. • “Thank you so much!” Lucy exclaimed joyfully as the boy returned the wallet to her. • “Look what I have found! A brand new wallet!” she exclaimed gleefully. • “My favourite ice-cream!” James squealed in

delight. • “I am sure we will make it to the next round!” said Peter, smiling from ear to ear.

Feelings of excitement • I was so excited that I could hardly sleep. • His heart pounded in excitement as he raced towards the park. • Jane was head over heels with excitement when Mrs Tan told her that the class would be going to the cinema. • Michelle trembled with excitement as she opened the mystery gift. • There was a buzz of excitement in the air as the teams get ready to for the match. • I felt a jolt of excitement when Miss Lee told me that I won the first prize in the Math quiz.

Feelings of surprise • I was truly amazed when the magician turned the girl into a rabbit. • He was deeply puzzled by the treasure chest in the corner. “What could be inside?” he wondered. • Jessica was fascinated by the tricks that she saw in the magic show.

• To her great surprise, no one was in the room. • Her eyes widened in surprise as the thief approached her. • Mandy could not believe her eyes when she saw so many gifts on her table. • My eyes nearly popped out when I saw the prize tag on the dress. • The news took him by surprise.

Feelings of anger • She went red with fury when she realized that someone took her bag away. • The principal was very crossed with the pupils who played truant. • The girl glared at the bullies angrily. • She blew her top when she was scolded for no reason. • His face was as black as thundercloud. No one dared to go near him. • Jimmy clenched his fists in anger and went up to the bullies. • Jack’s father was fuming with anger when he could not find Jack in his room.

Feelings of disappointment • The teacher was utterly disappointed by the pupils’ results.

• She felt disheartened when she was not chosen to be on the school team. • Mary hung her head in disappointment when she failed the test. • Her hopes were dashed when she learnt that she was not selected for the play. • Susan was dealt with a big blow when her dog passed away. • She looked so sad and crestfallen. • “I can’t believe we lost the game!” John cried out in dismay. • Disappointment was written all over her face.

Feelings of fear • As the sound of the footsteps became louder, my body started to shiver with fear. • May turned pale with fright as the snake glided towards her. • I could hear my heart pounding so fast. • I stay rooted to the ground, unable to move as I was paralysed with fear. • The trip has become a total nightmare for them. • “Look out!” Danny shrieked in fright. • Joline yelled out in fear as she saw two bears running towards her.

• I got cold feet at the last minute and decided not to go on the roller coaster ride.

Feelings of tiredness • I was completely exhausted after a long day at work. • She collapsed in exhaustion on her big bed. • Samuel rubbed his weary eyes, trying to keep himself awake. • He dozed off immediately after he sat on the couch. • After a night of computer games, his eyes were bleary.

Feelings of curiosity • Luke’s curious eyes noticed everything around him. • Out of curiosity, she decided to open the black box. • Rachel pokes her nose into everything and she was known as the busybody in the class. A "After all is said and done, more is said than done." "When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." "Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without."

Aesop Gracie Allen Woody Allen Anonymous Anonymous

"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks Anonymous out" "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the Anonymous doorbell." "Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior Anonymous work." "Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle "One swallow does not make the spring." Aristotle "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do." "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." "There is safety in numbers."

Aristotle Aristotle Anonymous

B "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." Sir Francis Bacon "Knowledge is power." "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. "Ability is nothing without opportunity." "Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to C earn."

Sir Francis Bacon Honore de Balzac Orlando A; Battisa Charles Baudelaire

Alexander Graham Bell

Ingrid Bergman Otto von Bismarck Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte Jacques Bossuet Miguel de Cervantes

"There are people who have money and people who are rich." "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." "A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." "If you are going through hell, keep going." "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." "The price of greatness is responsibility." "Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors." "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." "Respect yourself and others will respect you." "The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." D

Coco Chanel G.K.Chesterton G.K.Chesterton Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Cicero E.M.Cioran

Jean Cocteau

Conficius Conficius Conficius Conficius Marie Curie

"The only difference between me and a madman is that Salvador Dali I'm not mad." "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the Charles Darwin most

intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." "Little things affect little minds." "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. "All for one and one for all." "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent E perspiration." "Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Marlene Dietrich Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas Thomas Edison Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other Euripedes side." "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." Euripedes "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is F why we call what he writes fiction." "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." "The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." "To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe." "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." "Most fools think they are only ignorant." "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." "Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral that they can imagine." "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them G discover it within themselves." "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever." "Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." "Graveyards are full of indispensable men." "Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil." "Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children"

William Faulkner Henry Ford Henry Ford Henry Ford Malcolm Forbes

Anatole France Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Anna Freud

Sigmund Freud

Galileo Gallilei Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Bill Gates Charles de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle J. Paul Getty J. Paul Getty

"If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man." "All the world over I will back the masses against the classes." "Enjoy when you can and endure when you must." "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." H "Never confuse movement with action." "There is no better friend than a book." "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." "Maybe this world is another planet's hell." "In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of J principle, stand like a rock." "Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." "When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized K life." "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." "When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity." "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without

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Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley

Thomas Jefferson Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Immanuel Kant John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy

liberty is always in vain." "Education : the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." "Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade." "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously." "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot L survive without human affection." "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." "In the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one M concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." "To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship." "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an N enemy."

John Maynard Keynes

Martin Luther King Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Dalai Lama John Lennon Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Niccolo Machiavelli Somerset Maugham Somerset Maugham Moliere Thomas Moore Isaac Newton

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger." "When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." O "Burdens become light when cheerfully borne." P

"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." "The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." "A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." "The customer is never wrong." "Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." "Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." "Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are." "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." "If it can't be cured it must be endured." "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." S "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but

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Francois Rabelais Thomas Brackett Reed Cesar Ritz F.W. Robertson F. de la Rochefoucauld F. de la Rochefoucauld Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Salman Rushdie John Ruskin Antoine de St Exupery

when there is nothing left to take away." "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. "Hell is other people." "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." "Life is a play. It's not its length but its performance that counts." "Action is eloquence." "All that glitters is not gold." "Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." "Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language." "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" "Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." "We don't stop playing because we grow; we grow old because we stop playing." "Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." "Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!" "Politics is perhap the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. "May you live every day of your life." T "I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a

Antoine de St Exupery Jean-Paul Sartre John Saxe Sir Walter Scott Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift Talleyrand

lion, than by an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep." "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." "Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." "Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint." "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." U "The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure." "The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." "Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it." "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." "Only those who keep trying eventually win." "Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement." "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." "The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow." V "Conscience is a man's compass." "The progress of rivers to the ocean is not as rapid as that of man to error." "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." "The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks." "Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."

Alfred Lord Tennyson William Thackery Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Vinvent Van Gogh Voltaire Voltaire Voltaire Voltaire Voltaire

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." W "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to get rid of it." "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." "My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." "Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." "Wisdom is knowing how little we know." "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." "There are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it." "True friends stab you in the front." "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."

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"Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire."

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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing Emile Zola without work."

William Butler Yeats