Van Buren (surname) - Pronounced Identically But Spelled Differently

Famous quotes containing the words pronounced, identically, spelled and/or differently:

“The same things change their names at such a rate;
For instance—passion in a lover’s glorious,
But in a husband is pronounced uxorious.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“they were placed in a box
and painted identically blue
and thus passed their days
living happily ever after
a kind of coffin,
a kind of blue funk.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
—L.P. (Leslie Poles)