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True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.
La Rochefoucauld
Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.
James Lipton
His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.
Bible
Language is an inventory of human experience.
L. W. Lockhart
Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.
Robert MacNeil
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
James Reston
A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.
Edward Arlington Robinson
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
Bertrand Russell
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
May Sarton
Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.
Louis B. Saloman
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.
Turkish Proverb
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Friedrich Wasiman
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Words are feminine deeds are masculine.
Baltasar Gracián
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
Blaise Pascal
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Goethe
Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
Thomas Mann
Like stones words are laborious and unforgiving and the fitting of them together like the fitting of stones demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Edmund Morrison
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.
Anthony Burgess
Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.
Oren Arnold
Plain English - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.
Jacques Barzun
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Gerald Brenan
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
John Ciardi
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Goethe
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.
Matthew Prior
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
Max Weinreich
The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
Michel de Montaigne
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Baptiste Racine
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon
Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
William Jovanovich
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.
Vincent van Gogh
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Northrop Frye
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
David Hare
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
More than kisses letters mingle souls.
John Donne
I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl Pfizer
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined.
R. I. Fitzhenry
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
I am the King of Rome and above grammar.
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Bible
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers but is something arising out of the work needs ties joys affections tastes of long generations of humanity and has its bases broad and low close to the ground.
Walt Whitman
Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.
Bible
Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection -> Encyclopedias are impossible -> I would say: the more information grows, the more knowledge retreats and therefore the more decision is partial (terroristic, dogmatic) -> “I don’t know,” “I refuse to judge”: as scandalous as an agrammatical sentence: doesn’t belong to the language of the discourse. Variations on the “I don’t know.” The obligation to “be interested” in everything that is imposed on you by the world: prohibition of noninterest, even if provisional . . . .
Roland Barthes
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