Famous quotes containing the words breeches and/or etymology:
“We found it at last, an a little shed
Where they shut up the lamb at night.
We looked in an seen them huddled thar,
So warm an sleepy an white;
An THAR sot Little Breeches an chirped,
As peart as ever you see,
I wants a chaw of terbacky,
An thats whats the matter of me.”
—John Milton Hay (18381905)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of style. But while stylederiving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tabletssuggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. Taste: The Story of an Idea, Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)