Language Quotes
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
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
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
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
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
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
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
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
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
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.Susan Johnson
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
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
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
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
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
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
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
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
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
