Famous quotes containing the words vowels and/or written:
“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)
“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
—Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)