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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Languages are the barometers of national thought and character. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Language,--human language,--after all, is but little better than the cloak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,--sometimes not so adequate. - Nathaniel Hawthorne The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. - Hippocrates of Iphicrates Language was invented to ask questions. - Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition (p. 55) Language! the blood of the soul, sir, into which our thoughts run, and out of which they grow. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. - Mark Hopkins Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Language is the dress of thought. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Languages are the pedigree of nations. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Preface to his English Dictionary In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver. - Joseph Joubert Languages are the keys of science. - Jean de la Bruyere The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (342) Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. - Penelope Lively Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 262) Language is the machine of the poet. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois, Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Les Femmes Savantes (II, 6) A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la tete d'un livre.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Preface--Les Precieuses Ridicules We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. - Iris Murdoch Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.] - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (I) Syllables govern the world. - John Selden, Table Talk--Power Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Kent at II, ii) Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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