Language Quotes
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
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
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
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
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
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
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
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
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
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
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
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
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
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.Eric Hoffe
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
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
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
