Latin Word

Famous quotes containing the words latin word, latin and/or word:

“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

“Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)