Famous Quotes
523 Quotations with Language.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the mo ...
- 46. Max Weinreich: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
- 47. General Robert E. Lee: Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty ...
- 48. Dean Krakel: Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight an ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand ea ...
- 50. Tim Bedore: Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.
- 51. Lily Tomlin: I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
- 52. Egyptian Inscription: Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new lang ...
- 53. Ted Nelson: I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be li ...
- 54. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into ...
- 55. Robert W. Shaunon: Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact ...
- 56. George Orwell: Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, ...
- 57. Franz Xavier Kroetz: Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human strugg ...
- 58. Annie Dillard: There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and deli ...
- 59. Douglas Adams: It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an ...
- 60. John Comenius: To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a differ ...