Calling Conventions

Famous quotes containing the words calling and/or conventions:

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)