Famous quotes containing the words closely related, language, closely and/or related:
“As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other idealsor, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?”
—Rose Macaulay (18811958)
“The sayings of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speechit is a gift from heart to heart.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear hell not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)
“Gambling is closely related to theft, and lewdness to murder.”
—Chinese proverb.