Language Quotes
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
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
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
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)
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
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
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
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
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
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
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
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
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
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
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
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
