Language Quotes
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
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 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
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
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
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
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
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
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
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
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
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
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
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
