Acception Spelling Quotes & Sayings

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked. It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge. — Thomas Paine

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett

We were created fearless in order to achieve our goals more effectively — Sunday Adelaja

Back in 1998, he [Tom Hanks] gave the maximum amount of money that he could to Bill Clinton's defense fund. This is a man who was against gay marriage, as was Hillary Clinton. — Bill O'Reilly

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S. — Marc Faber

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. — Tom Daschle