There are many proverbs and quotations in English with passive structures which can help you understand life and language at the same time. Have a look and enjoy them.
- Wisdom is only found in truth. (J. W. Goethe)
- An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Ph. Chesterfield)
- He who commits injustice is ever made more wretches than he who suffers it. (Plato)
- If on Parnassus Top you sit You rarely bite, are always bit. (J. Swift)
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. (Aristotle)
- When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger. (F. D. Roosevelt)
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (S. Johnson)
- New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (J. Locke)
- The die is cast. (Caesar)
- Draw the curtain, the farce is played. (F. Rabelais)
- Libraries are not made, they grow. (A. Birrell)
- Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. (R. Descartes)
- Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempted to find a plot in itwill be shot. (M. Twain)
- When Thales was asked what was most difficult, he said, “To know on one’s self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.” (Diogenes)
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