Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.””
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

“The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)