Language Quotes
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
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
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.John A. Rassias
A different language is a different vision of life.Federico Fellini
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
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.Eugene Debs
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Nelson Mandela
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
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
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 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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.Larry Wall
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
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
