From Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher; sample use of aphorisms to teach vocabulary
- Mother Teresa once noted that kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their [echoes] are truly endless.
- As Mickey Mouse once said, [mathematics] is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- James Matthew Barrie once remarked that God gave us [memory] so that we might have roses in December.
- There is a Chinese proverb which states that he who seeks [revenge] should remember to dig two graves.
- A Portuguese proverb notes that visits always give pleasure - if not at the [arrival], then at the departure.
- There is a French proverb which observes that children have more need of models than [critics].
- There is a Haitian proverb which observes that poor people [entertain] with the heart.
