Lexicographer

"It may be said, without exaggeration, that there is no other text which is documented by such varied types of sources."

🇮🇹Tullio De Mauro

Politics

1932–2017

"It is not possible to fully understand modern world culture without appreciating its connection and its continuity with the heritage of classical culture."

Henry George Liddell

Education

1811–1898

"I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school."

🇬🇷Nikos Kazantzakis

Literature

1883–1957

"The rosy mountain peaks laughed like high lustrous thoughts,and Helen, speechless, raised her pale hands toward the sunand joyed to feel its warm rays falling on her frozen palms."

Monier Monier-Williams

Literature

1819–1899

"When the walls of the mighty fortress of Brahminism are encircled, undermined, and finally stormed by the soldiers of the Cross, the victory of Christianity must be signal and complete."

🇬🇧Leslie Stephen

Social Activism

1832–1904

"The poet should touch our heart by showing his own"

🇬🇧Horace Hayman Wilson

Education

1786–1860

"These lectures were written to help candidates for a prize of Pound Sterling 200- given by John Muir, a well-known old Haileybury man and great Sanskrit scholar, for the best refutation of the Hindu Religious System."

Adam Kilgarriff

1960–2015

"...I examined the concept, 'word sense'. It was not found to be sufficiently well-defined to be a workable basic unit of meaning."

Denis Diderot

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1713–1784

"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."

Lin Yutang

Literature

1895–1976

"If life is all subjective, why not be subjectively happy rather than subjectively sad?"

Richard Chenevix Trench

Religion

1807–1886

"As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things."

🇺🇸Noah Porter

Politics

1871–1886

"The Human Intellect: With an Introduction upon Psychology and the Soul via Google Books."

🇬🇧Nigel Rees

Literature

b. 1944

"I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

🇵🇱Witold Doroszewski

1899–1976

"the science of the meanings of words, the problem of the relationship between words and designata."

🇺🇸Leo Rosten

Literature

1908–1997

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

🇬🇧Eric Blom

Music

1888–1959

"In future editions many of those who may die in the meantime will, of course, be added. All the same, it is hoped that this announcement will not start an immediate wave of suicide among singers and players."

🇺🇸Bergen Evans

Education

1904–1978

"We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us."