Famous Quotes
523 Quotations with Language.
- 21. Field Marshall John French: Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new ...
- 22. Thomas Jefferson: No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will alwa ...
- 23. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 24. Rosenstock-Huessy: Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Gr ...
- 25. Henry David Thoreau: We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not ...
- 26. William Carlos Williams: By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. ...
- 27. Noah Webster: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers ...
- 28. Author Unknown: When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to te ...
- 29. Alford: Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and st ...
- 30. Dorothy Parker: The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''
- 31. Alison Lurie: We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a languag ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treas ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language ...