Language Quotes
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
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
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
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
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
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
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
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.General Robert E. Lee
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
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
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
