Vowel Length Rule

Famous quotes containing the words vowel, length and/or rule:

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Therefore doth heaven divide
    The state of man in divers functions,
    Setting endeavor in continual motion,
    To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,
    Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
    The act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)