Famous quotes containing the words words and/or borrowed:
“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“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)