Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:
“As long as they desire the same object, they are of one mind, but having to achieve the same thing immediately disrupts their unanimity.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“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)