Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. ~Julia Penelope
English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. ~Kevin Smith
I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American. ~Author Unknown
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. ~Walter Kaufmann
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott
English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. ~Kevin Smith
I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American. ~Author Unknown
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. ~Walter Kaufmann
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~Derek Walcott
Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ~Lewis Thomas
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. ~William James
Be not the slave of Words. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 8
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. ~Martin H. Fischer
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ~Alfred North Whitehead
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ~Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books
I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ~Martin H. Fischer
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A different language is a different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. ~Author Unknown
Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ~Lewis Thomas
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. ~William James
Be not the slave of Words. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 8
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. ~Martin H. Fischer
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ~Alfred North Whitehead
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ~Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books
I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ~Martin H. Fischer
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A different language is a different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. ~Author Unknown
Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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