Language Quotes
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
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
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann von Goethe
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
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 filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
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
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
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
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
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.Horace Bushnell
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.Unknown
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
