Language Quotes
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
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
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
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
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
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
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
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.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
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
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
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
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Johannes Tillich
As was his language so was his life.Seneca
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
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
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
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
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
