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LANGUAGES: Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: The process of a living language is like the motion of a broad river which flows with a slow, silent, irresistible current. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: The study of word origins points to our common humanity. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain [head]. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: 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. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H.L. Mencken, U.S. writer, editor, and critic, 1880-1956Evolution: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
LANGUAGES: Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939Action: Better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)
LANGUAGES: Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, 1857-1913Maturity: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish Proverb)
LANGUAGES: Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. (Elizabeth Drew, U.S. political journalist and author, 1887-1965Consumerism: In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich, Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)
LANGUAGES: The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832Flags: Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. (Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist, Born 1961U.S.A.: Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers, U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)
LANGUAGES: When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round. (Unknown Source)
LANGUAGES: I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
LANGUAGES: It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. (Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist and ethno-botanist, Born 1953)
LANGUAGES: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)
LANGUAGES: Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939)
LANGUAGES: Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis. (Ernest Weekley, British lexicographer and etymologist, 1865-1954)
LANGUAGES: No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. poet, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)
LANGUAGES: While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)
LANGUAGES: 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. (Noah Webster, Jr., U.S. lexicographer and English-language spelling reformer, 1758-1843)
LANGUAGES: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain (Unknown source)
LANGUAGES: Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, and philosopher, 1772-1834)
LANGUAGES: Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
LANGUAGES: Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. (Richard C. Trench, Anglican archbishop and poet,1807-1886)
LANGUAGES: You live a new life for every new language you speak. (Czech proverb)
LANGUAGES: Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939)
LANGUAGES: Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. (Elizabeth Drew, U.S. political journalist and author, 1887-1965)
LANGUAGES: Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and semiotician, 1857-1913)
LANGUAGES: A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)
LANGUAGES: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951)
LANGUAGES: The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
LANGUAGES: Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. (Mark Abley, Canadian journalist, Born 1955)
LANGUAGES: The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable or compressible at the whim of the editor. (Robert Burchfield, New Zealand lexicographer, 1923-2004)
LANGUAGES: A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. (Max Weinreich, Yiddish linguist and author, 1894-1969)
LANGUAGES: A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini, Italian film director and writer, 1920-1993)
LANGUAGES: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)
LANGUAGES: Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow. (Noam Chomsky, U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)
LANGUAGES: Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)
LANGUAGES: There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S. (Unknown source)
LANGUAGES: Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. (Noah Webster, Jr., U.S. lexicographer and English-language spelling reformer, 1758-1843)