Language Quotes - Page 17

• Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

  Tom Neil

  Communication, Math, Silence

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• We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

  Alison Lurie

  Women, Lying, Silence

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• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

  Horace

  Communication, Silence, Words We Speak

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 71, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• As was his language so was his life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thought Provoking, Silence

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• Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

  Alexander the Great

  Brother, Fighting, Fate

  "Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great)". Book by Quintus Curtius Rufus, 2005.

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• If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, New Year, Jobs

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Ambition, Science

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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• Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

  Ibrahim Farah

  Dance, Dancing, Important

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• Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Best Love, Kissing, Hug

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• I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

  Drake

  Humble, Stones, Speak

  Song: Over, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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• We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.

  Slavoj Žižek

  War, Hero, Missing

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Indulge In, Anxiety

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• As humans we speak one language.

  Avril Lavigne

  Funny, Dumb, Speak

  "Avril Lavigne Fires Back Over Claims She Ripped Off 70s Song", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Offending, Flattery, Habit

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• If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• 'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

  Sarah Palin

  Stupid, Silly, Coins

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• .. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Children, Father

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Communication, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Art, School, Speech

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203

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• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Giving, Atmosphere

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• Music is the language spoken by angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Music Is

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• The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books

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• Talk to people in their own language.
  If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking."
  And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

  Lee Iacocca

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• ...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Humility, Winning

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