Long Word

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or word:

    If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.
    Josiah Royce (1855–1916)

    When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)