Linguists - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136<![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25137<![CDATA[Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25138<![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! Cum sit turpe ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25128<![CDATA[Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25129<![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130<![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131<![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25132<![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133<![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25134<![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25135<![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25120<![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25121<![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25122<![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123<![CDATA[He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25124<![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25125<![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25126<![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127<![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25119