660 Quotations with Lang.
- 21. Sam Rayburn: No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
- 22. Karl Buhler: By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five ye ...
- 23. Langston Hughes: No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can b ...
- 24. Horace Bushnell: If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active ...
- 25. Henri Delacroix: The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
- 26. Field Marshall John French: Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new ...
- 27. Thomas Jefferson: No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will alwa ...
- 28. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 29. Rosenstock-Huessy: Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Gr ...
- 30. Henry David Thoreau: We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not ...
- 31. Michelangelo Buonarroti: Trifles go to make perfection,
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- 32. William Carlos Williams: By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. ...
- 33. Noah Webster: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers ...
- 34. Author Unknown: When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to te ...
- 35. Alford: Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and st ...
- 36. Johann Kaspar Lavater: There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce ...
- 37. Dorothy Parker: The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''
- 38. Alison Lurie: We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a languag ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
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