Archaism Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. — Diane Wakoski

When you shine stars are happy
because you unburden them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. — Emily James Smith Putnam

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. — James Agee

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." Papa's hands tightened on the splintery wood. "I'm an idiot."
No, Papa.
You're just a man. — Markus Zusak

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, Pourquoi? — Peggy Kopman-Owens

Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?! — Tito Sotto

Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone. — Richard Powers

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights. — Kristin Hersh

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they're like, 'Hey! All right, all right, all right!' — Kevin Hart

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. — Michael Kimmelman

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination. — Victoria Aveyard

Every man's disease is his personal property. — Alonzo M. Clark

Monogamy is probably enforced because society if mostly comprised of beta males. — David M. Buss

I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere. — Richard Leakey

Your relationship should erase your tears, not your smile. — Blake Shelton

Archaism, in the linguistic order, is not, in any event, synonymous with simplicity of structure, very much to the contrary. Languages generally grow poorer with the passing oftime by gradually losing the richness of their vocabulary, the ease with which they can diversify various aspects of one and the same idea, and their power of synthesis, which is the ability to express many things with few words. In order to make up for this impoverishment, modern languages have become more complicated on the rhetorical level; while perhaps gaining in surface precision, they have not done as as regards content. Language historians are astonished by the fact that Arabic was able to retain a morphology attested to as early as the Code of Hammurabi, for the nineteenth to the eighteenth century before the Christian era, and to retain a phonetic system which preserves, with the exception of a single sound, the extremly rich sound-range disclosed by the most ancient Semitic alphabets discovered, [...] — Titus Burckhardt

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness. — Evagrius Ponticus