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"I was recently on a tour of latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." »J Danforth Quayle
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"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read latin." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"There is a negative proof of the value of latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it." »Peter Brodie
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"latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand." »Seneca
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"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn latin." »Heinrich Heine
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"One attraction of latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day." »Peter Brodie
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"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind." »Albert Camus
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"Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless." »Leo Tolstoy
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"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." »Oscar Wilde
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"Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing." »Oscar Wilde
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"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success." »Kurt Herbert Alder
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"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?" »Mahabharata
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason." »Whitheead
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar." »Miguel Cervantes
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"I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability." »Oscar Wilde
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"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar." »Oscar Wilde
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"Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life." »James Joseph Sylvester
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"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy." »Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography
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