Language Quotes
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
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
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
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
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
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
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
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
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
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
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.Doug Larson
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
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
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
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
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
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
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
