Roger Ascham Men Quotations

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.