Language Quotes
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
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
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
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
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.Susan Johnson
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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
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 great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
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
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
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
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
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
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
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
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
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
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
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
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
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
