Ex.3. Match the two halves

Famous people

Their quotations

I. Bernard Shaw     II. Oscar Wilde     III. William Shakespeare     IV. Jonathan Swift   V. George Washington   VI. William Somerset Maugham   VII. Abraham Lincoln   VIII. Samuel Johnson   IX. Benjamin Franklin     X. Diogenes     XI. Francis Bacon     XII. Emerson     XIII. John Galsworthy     XIV. Mark Twain     XV. Syrus

1. Wake not a sleeping wolf. 2. A moment may ruin a life. 3. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 4. There are two tragedies in your life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. 5. Every man desires to live long, but no man would like to be old. 6. Don’t use big words. They mean so little. 7. He who has never hoped can never despair. 8. There is nothing like youth. Youth is the Lord of Life. 9. If you want a servant, take one; if you wish to be badly served, take two; if you wish to serve yourself, take three; if you wish to be well served, serve yourself. 10. Men of few words are the best men. 11. A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. 12. … it is better to be alone than in bad company. 13. People ask you for criticism but they only want praise. 14. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. 15. He that can have patience can have what he will. 16. A word to the wise is enough. 17. We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. 18. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. 19. Knowledge is power. 20. Language is the dress of thought. 21. The first wealth is health. 22. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. 23. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. 24. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 25. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. 26. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 27. If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.   28. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. 29. It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. 30. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.   31. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Ex.4. Compare your variants to your classmates’. Which variants do you consider correct?

Ex.5. Give Russian equivalents for the quotations.

Ex.6. Shut the left half of Ex.3, please.

Try to reproduce the names of some famous people [15].

Ex.7. Shut the right half of the exercise and try to reproduce some of their quotations [31].

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