Quotes About Language

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

With words we govern men.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.