Words Borrowed

Famous quotes containing the words words and/or borrowed:

    The words of lowly people carry little weight.
    Chinese proverb.

    Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)