Famous quotes containing the words short and/or vowels:
“A short reign does not spare the masses.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)