Famous quotes containing the words nicolas and/or speaker:
“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)