Travel/etymology

Famous quotes containing the words travel and/or etymology:

    Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.
    Chinese proverb.

    The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
    Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)