Education Quote by Brander Matthews Download Open image “A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.” — Brander Matthews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Educational Forgotten Gentleman Humorous Knows Latin Learning Needs Should
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Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?” — LJ Smith Copy Share Image
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw and King Richard says but it was not the Latin of Cicero or even the Latin of the ordinary Roman citizen. It… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying. In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn… — John Adams Copy Share
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have… — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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