Things People Said: Viva voce

Things People Said

A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• The Company of Immortals
• The grandeur of her successes and her failures
• Not to run away
• What if you're made-up?
• What Matters Most
• Isn't Simply A Test
• Dreaming Big
• I'll miss you.
• Know you are alone
• I will render you / Useless

A tremendous debt is owed to the following:

Viva voce

"The time has come," the Vulture said,
"To talk of many things,
Of Accidence and Adjectives,
And names of Jewish kings,
How many notes a sackbut has,
And whether shawms have strings."

"Please, Sir," the Undergraduates said,
Turning a little blue,
"We did not know that was the sort
Of thing we had to do."
"We thank you much," the Vulture said,
"Send up another two."

-- Arthur Clement Hilton, The Vulture and the Husbandman

[ 20 August 2006 11:49 am submitted by Unknown ]

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