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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

2.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

3.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heine, Heinrich

4.
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.
Rich, Adrienne

5.
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Paz, Octavio

6.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

7.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Vico, Giambattista

8.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Mathews, Harry

9.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

10.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Tillich, Paul

11.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Johnson

12.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

13.
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Hoban, Russell

14.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

15.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Tolkien, J. R.

17.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

18.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

19.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Barthes, Roland

20.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Kraus, Karl

21.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

22.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

23.
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Woolf, Virginia

24.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

25.
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

26.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

27.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Canetti, Elias

28.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

29.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

30.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Ricks, Christopher

31.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

32.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

33.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

34.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Huessy, Rosenstock

35.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

36.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Washington, Booker T.

37.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Wilde, Oscar

38.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

39.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Chomsky, Noam

40.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

41.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin

42.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

43.
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Fanon, Frantz

44.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Barthes, Roland

45.
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Hugo, Victor

46.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

48.
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
Lodge, David

49.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

50.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne


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