Language Quotes
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
A different language is a different vision of life.Federico Fellini
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.James Grover Thurbe
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
