Language

25 quotes.

• The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  Federico Fellini

• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

• A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

  William Arthur Ward

• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire

• Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

  Anonymous

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

  Martha Graham

• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Anonymous

• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

  Robert Benchley

• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

  Clarence Darrow

• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

  Winston Churchill

• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

• Humor is a universal language.

  Joel Goodman

• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

  "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas

• Language is a virus from outer space.

  William S. Burroughs

• Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.

  Kelly Fordyce

• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  Humphrey Davy

• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

  Anonymous

• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

  Felelon

• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.

  Anonymous

• We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

  H. R. Haldeman, testifying in his own defense

• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

  Benjamin Whorf

• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

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