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  • I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

    Jobs   Latin   School  
    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”
  • There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

    Military   War   Latin  
    Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag
  • In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

    Wisdom   Latin   Teaching  
  • actions speak louder than words

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster
  • While there's life, there is hope.

  • In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

    Children   Latin   Eye  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.168, Penguin
  • While there's life, there's hope.

    Life   Hope   Latin  
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”
  • English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

    Latin   Greek   Vacuums  
    "From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.
  • Hit the nail on the head.

    Wise   Wisdom   Latin  
    John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press
  • To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

    Art   Latin   Struggle  
  • The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

    War   Lying   Latin  
    "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20
  • The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

    Education   Latin   Greek  
  • Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

    James Rollins (2009). “Map of Bones: A Sigma Force Novel”, p.39, Harper Collins
  • A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

    Latin   Europe   Names  
  • They condemn what they do not understand.

  • A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

    Faith   Latin   Hands  
    Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.2, Zondervan
  • Times change, and we change with them.

  • I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.

    Fun   Latin   Thinking  
    "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.
  • The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.

    Art   Latin   Believe  
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