“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”— Rita Mae Brown Related Quotes “When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was — gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.”— C.S. Lewis “The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.”– Alfred Marshall “Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”— Ptah-Hotep