Exercise 1. Read quotations and comment on the use of punctuation marks.

2. Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester)

3. There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. (Mona Crane)

4. If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. (native American saying)

5. When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. (Paulo Coelho The Alchemist)

6. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Mark Twain)

7. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)

8. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. (Charles Caleb Colton)

9. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. (Aristotle)

10. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. (Mahatma Gandhi)

11. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)

12. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln)

13. Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. (Giacomo Leopardi)

14. I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. (Abraham Lincoln)

15. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested. (Sir Francis Bacon)

16. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)

17. To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. (Anatole France)

18. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. (Paulo Coelho The Alchemist)

19. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. (Paulo Coelho)

20. Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. (Danish proverb)

21. Every time you wish something, keep your eyes wide open, focus and know exactly what you want. No one hits the target with eyes closed. (Paulo Coelho The Devil and Miss Prym)