Language Quotes
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
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
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.Horace Bushnell
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Nelson Mandela
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
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
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
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.
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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
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
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 are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.Ellen Gilcrist
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
