Famous Quotes
47 Quotations with Languages.
- 1. Thomas Jefferson: No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will alwa ...
- 2. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand ea ...
- 4. William Shakespeare: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
- 5. Richard Feynman: You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you' ...
- 6. J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so ...
- 7. G. H. Hardy: Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die ...
- 8. Larry Wall: The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and ...
- 9. Dorothy Parker: That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
- 10. Albert Einstein: The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little chi ...
- 11. Author Unknown: A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
- 12. Miguel de Cervantes: By such innovations are languages enriched: when the words are adopted by the mu ...
- 13. Thomas B. Macaulay: Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexa ...
- 14. Benjamin Franklin: He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that ...
- 15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
- 16. Author Unknown: How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks ...
- 17. Samuel Johnson: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees ...
- 18. J. R.R. Tolkien: I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do ...
- 19. Harry Emerson Fosdick: Money is a person's personal energy reduced to portable form. It can go where he ...
- 20. James M. Barrie: Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the ...