QuotaBillsThe sharp employ the sharp. - Douglas Jerrold
Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman
An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young
How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. - Earl Wilson
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda
Tea should be as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword. - Lemony Snicket
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. - Barbara Walters
My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. - Benjamin Franklin
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. - Tacitus
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
When a man falls into his anecdotage, it is a sign for him to retire from the world. - Benjamin Disraeli
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. - Jerry M Wright
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud
I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis
A gentleman should never leave the house without a sharp knife, a good watch, and great hat. - Unknown
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. - C S Lewis
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired. - Steven Wright
Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
Pain is a sign that we are alive. Problems are a sign that we are strong. Prayer is a sign that we are not alone. - Unknown
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
In this year, King Aethelstan, Lord of Warriors, ring-giver to men... won eternal glory, in battle with sword edges, around Brunaburh. - Unknown
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
NASA's robot Curiosity landed on Mars. Early pictures show no signs of ESPN or beer. This makes it very clear that men are not from Mars. - Unknown
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James R Lowell