Word Learning

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or learning:

“I pray for fashion’s word is out
And prayer comes round again
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)