Southern Mannish Languages

Famous quotes containing the words southern, mannish and/or languages:

    You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?
    —Terry Southern (b. 1924)

    A woman impudent and mannish grown
    Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
    In time of action.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)