whats a really good quote to impress an english teacher?

Question

perferably by a famous writer or poet

Answer 1

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
Benjamin Franklin

Answer 2

If she's a female teacher she'll LOVE this:
This is attributed to Audry Hepburn, but probably writte by Sam levenson :

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Answer 3

"It is absurd to divide people into good or bad.People are either charming or tedious." Oscar Wilde

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
Truman Capote

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." G.B.Stern

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch

Answer 4

quote Robert Frost...Natures first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower, but only so an hour, then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay...


You can even explain it...especially if this is your senior year...you can say something really smart like: I look back on my years in school and I can relate to Eden. My golden hour is over and I must now venture off to find my true color.

good luck

Answer 5

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
~Albert Einstein

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
~Plato

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
~Aristitle

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure
to do the impossible."
~William Faulkner

Answer 6

How about:

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand" -Plato
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"Not every poem's good because it's ancient, Nor mayst thou blame it just because it's new,
Fair critics test, and prove, and so pass judgment; Fools praise or blame as they hear others do." -Buddhist
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"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words" -Robert Frost
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom" -Robert Frost

Answer 7

something from romeo and Juliet or...the unexamined life is not worth living for man by Emily Dickinson.

Answer 8

anything from shakespeare.

bid me discourse and i will enchant thine ear...

our doubts are traitors,
and makes us lose the
good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt....

love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
if this be error and upon me proved,
i never writ, nor no man ever loved.
the above, sonnet 116

.......sigh. i love shakspeare........

Answer 9

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" ~Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
by Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!

How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one's name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!

Answer 10

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

you can fit that into anything, seriously

Answer 11

"All the world's a stage, and all men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; and one man in his time plays man parts." -AS YOU LIKE IT -William Shakespeare

or

"I will show you a hero as plain and small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." -JANE EYRE - Charlotte Bronte