Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or speaker:
“Though pedantry denies,
It’s plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)