Language Quotes

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
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
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)
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 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)
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
George bernhard shaw - english is the easiest language to speak badly....
Ellen gilcrist - we live at the level of our language. whatever we...
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
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
Jane austen, northanger abbey - only a novel... in short, only some work in which...
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
John A. Rassias
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Mark Twain
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.
Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
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
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
Black Hawk
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
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
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
Susan Johnson
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene Debs
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
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
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Unknown
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson