Language Quotes
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
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
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
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Johannes Tillich
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
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
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
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
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
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
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
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.Henry David Thoreau
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
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
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
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
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
