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Activity: Famous Quotes
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Materials: None
Have students put their minds to work with the following famous quotes. Choose a quote for each class. You can use them as essay topics or as a basis for classroom debates. If you decide to use them for a writing exercise, try having a short debate or brainstorming session in class beforehand as preparation. Make sure students have a specific argument that they want to defend and that they describe situations to back it up.
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." (Aristotle)
"Fear always springs from ignorance." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"It's better to act and take some risk, rather than to be sorry for not having done anything." (Boccacio)
"The worst the evils do is to force as to mistrust the good." (Jacinto Benavente)
"Many people miss the little joys, while they await big happiness." (Pearl S. Buck)
"The only way to win a war is to avoid it." (George C. Marshall)
"When the rich make war, it's the poor who die." (Jean Paul Sartre)
"The jury is made up by twelve people chosen to decide who has the best attorney." (Robert L. Frost)
"The wealth is like salt water, the more you drink it the thirstier you get." (Schopenhauer)
"Religions will disappear with people's happiness." (Raymond Queneau)
"The war is the art of destroying men, politics is the art of deceiving them." (Jean Le R. D'Alambert)
"We should use the past as a springboard rather than as a couch." (Harold Macmillan)
"Do not do any harm and it won't exist." (Leon Tolstoi)
"The real heroe in many literary works is the reader that stands them." (Sergio Golworz)
"Young people know what they don't want before knowing what they really want." (Jean Cocteau)
"There is a way to find out if somebody is honest: by asking him. If he answers yes, he's rotten." (Groucho Marx)
"Can the mankind get to know the universe? For God's sake! Not to get lost in Chinatown is pretty difficult itself!." (Woody Allen)
"In Beverly Hills they don't litter trash, they transform it into TV." (Woody Allen)
"Love is the passion for the other's happiness." (Cyrano de Bergerac)
"Of that who thinks that money can do anything, one might suspect with reasonable ground that he will be capable of doing just anything for money." (Benjamin Franklin)