Language Quotes
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
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
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
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
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
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
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
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.Rosenstock - Huessy
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin
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
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
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
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
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
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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
