Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiment

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp… that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages! – William Mathews, “Self-Reliance,” Getting on in the World; Or, Hints on Success

Category:
Quotations

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. – Robert Benchley

Category:
Quotations

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech

Category:
Quotations

One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom. – John Russell, definition of a proverb

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. – Hermann Ebbinghaus

Category:
Psychology

I believe in America because we have great dreams – and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. – Wendell L. Wilkie

Category:
USA Patriotic

Once youve wrestled, everything else in life is easy. – Dan Gable

Category:
Life

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Love