Language Quotes
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
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
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.Doug Larson
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.Cicero
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
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
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.Johnson
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
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
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.Mario M Cuomo
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.Eugene Debs
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.Susan Johnson
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
