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Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis
I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra
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
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
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas