Famous Language Quotes - Famous Quotes about Language
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
- Brander Matthews
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All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, 'Lie down.'
- Hugh Walpole
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
- William Jennings Bryan
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
- C. S. Lewis
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley
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English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
- Miriam A. Ferguson
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Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.
- Michael Parkinson
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
- Cole Porter
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met. (referring to a lawyer)
- Abraham Lincoln
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
- Carl Sandburg
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
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In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language.
- George W. Bush
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In two words, im possible.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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Introducing 'Lite' - The new way to spell 'Light', but with twenty per cent fewer letters.
- Jerry Seinfield
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It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. (Grand Jury testimony - August 17, 1998)
- Bill Clinton
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
- Andrew Jackson
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lilly Tomlin
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
- Billy Wilder
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To have another language is to possess a second soul.
- Charlemagne
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
- Manly Hall
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Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
- Aeschylus
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Words make love with one another.
- Andre Breton
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
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