Quotes About Language

I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.

Bad grammar makes me [sic].

I always put the apostrophe in "ain't" to make certain I'm using proper improper English.

Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

So is a word better than a gift.

Words have meaning and names have power.

We [God] have sent no messenger save with the tongue of his people, that he might make clear to them.

I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.

If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem.

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Though I be rude in speech.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right.

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck."

hackneyed phrases…. The purpose with which these phrases are introduced is for the most part that of giving a fillip to a passage that might be humdrum without them… but their true use when they come into the writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when they suggest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff, or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his cake instead of decorating with sugarplums.

Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."

Thy speech bewrayeth thee.