Language Quotes

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene Debs
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
George bernhard shaw - english is the easiest language to speak badly....
Tom stoppard, rosencranz and guildenstern are dead - we are tied down to a language that makes up in...
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
Gyles lytton sitrachy - perhaps of all the creations of man, language is...
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
Susan Johnson
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
Black Hawk
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
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
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry
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
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Unknown
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagne
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
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
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
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
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
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
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
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Johann von Goethe
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
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