Language Quotes

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

Anon.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Max Weinreich

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylo

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

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

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Susan Johnson

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988