Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:
“If it was not wise,
Tell me why the East
Seemingly has ceased
From its long stagnation
In mere meditation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)