language

1.

Study the human figure, both as intrinsically beautiful and as expressing mind. It only expresses the broad natural childish emotions, which are just what we want to return to from our over subtlety. Study "natural language"--I mean the language of attitude. It is an inexhaustible source of knowledge and delight, and enables one human being to understand another so perfectly. Therefore learn to draw and paint figures.

- Letters and Memories. 1842.

2.

American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

3.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

- Ben Jonson

4.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

- Dante Alighieri

5.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

- Charlemagne

6.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

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

8.

Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer.

- Ezra Pound

10.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

- Aeschylus

11.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

- Eric Hoffer

12.

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

- Rita Mae Brown

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MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

- Ambrose Bierce

15.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

- Phelps, William Lyon

16.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

- Pancoast, Mal

17.

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

18.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

- Kohe, J. Martin

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats