LESSON ONE
[Lim Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10. Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10
back to 1. This is what he came up with....]
LESSON TWO Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself. - Unknown I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. - Jane Austen Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn The Republic of China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Henry Huxley It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Mahatma Gandhi The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin. - Heinrich Heine We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway Failure is instructive. People who really think learn quite as much from their failures as from their successes. - John Dewey Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. - Jack Welch We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless... but all are priceless. - Unknown The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' - Conan O'Brien I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe see also Confucius, Daffynitions & Language Sections “Books Never Written” Chinese Law School Chinese Proverbs Chinese Shoelusion Chinese Sudoku Chinese to English Translation Chu Your Food Well Fortune Cookies - In Bed Fuxing Lu No Fee Chinese Detective |
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