Language Quotes
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
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
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
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
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
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
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
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
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
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
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.James Grover Thurbe
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
As was his language so was his life.Seneca
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
