THE BOOK (ing clauses)

THE BOOK

GERUNDS VS PRESENT PARTICIPLES

Everything is dangerous. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.

I like talking. A lot of times I talk to myself, just to hear myself talking. Sometimes I am so clever that even I don’t understand what I said.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

In this world there are only two tragedies one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.

There are two tragedies in life, one is not getting what you want and the other is getting what you want.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Who, being loved, is poor?