Language Quotes
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
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.
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
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
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.Johnson
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author 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
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
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
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
Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.Austin Elliot
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.Eric Hoffe
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
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
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
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.Unknown
