Language Quotes

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
Anon.
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
George orwell - the great enemy of clear language is insincerity....
Aristophanes, frogs, 405 b. c. - high thoughts must have high language....
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
Horace bushnell - if you had the seeds of pestilence in your body...
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
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
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene Debs
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
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
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
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
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
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
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
John A. Rassias
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Field Marshall John French
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Johannes Tillich
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
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Rosenstock - Huessy
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau