Language Quotes

As was his language so was his life.

Seneca

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Chinese Prove

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

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

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

Larry Wall in

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

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

George Bernard Shaw

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilcrist

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Bernard Shaw

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

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

Robert Benchley