Wolf/etymology

Famous quotes containing the words wolf and/or etymology:

    “A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”
    —Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)