Famous quotes containing the words language and/or closely:
“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he’ll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)