Boast Quote by Peter Brodie Download Open image “There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.” — Peter Brodie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Knowing Knowledge Knowledge wisdom Latin Latin Boast Negative Negative Proof Not knowing Proof Proof Value Seems Value Latin Values Wisdom
“Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because… — Cicero Copy Share Image
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Stuart Sherman Copy Share Image
I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
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'm a huge advocate for the fact that there's no one way to be Latina. — Rachel Zegler 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
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to… — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
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
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image