Language Quotes

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

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

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Chinese Prove

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

Gyles Lytton Sitrachy

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

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

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie

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

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

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

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

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

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

George Carlin

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

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.

William John Bennett

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

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