The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
?Marcellinus Ammianus
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words,
there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
?H. R. Halderman
The English language is rather like a monster accordion,
stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
?Robert Burchfield
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
?Charlemagne
The finest language is mostly made
up of simple unimposing words.
?George Eliot
Thanks to words, we have been able to
rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we
have often sunk to the level of the demons.
?Aldous Huxley
Those who know nothing of foreign languages,
knows nothing of their own.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are
reported to have learned English - up to fifty words
used in correct context - no human being has
been reported to have learned dolphinese.
?Carl Sagan
Language is the blood of the soul into which
thoughts run and out of which they grow.
?Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is a form of human reason, which has its
internal logic of which man knows nothing.
?Claude Levi-Strauss
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.
?Christopher Ricks
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and
its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
?John Ruskin
The English have no respect for their language,
and will not teach their children to speak it.
?George Bernard Shaw
Viewed freely, the English language is the
accretion and growth of every dialect, race,
and range of time, and is both the free
and compacted composition of all.
?Walt Whitman
Drawing on my fine command of the
English language, I said nothing.
?Robert Benchley
Language shapes the way we think, and
determines what we can think about.
?Benjamin Lee Whorf
No man means all he says, and yet
very few say all they mean, for words
are slippery and thought is viscous.
?Henry Brooks Adams
