Bilingual Fine Print

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. - Greek proverb

English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Life happens at the level of events, not words. - Unknown

There is a time for words and a time for sleep. - Homer

One picture is worth more than a thousand words. - Chinese Proverb

In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates

A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. - Thomas Fuller

I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli

Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. - Unknown

The secret of my success is a two-word answer: Know people. - Harvey S Firestone

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." - Herbert Spencer

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. - Mark Twain

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. - Albert Einstein

Actions prove who someone is; words just prove who they want to be. - Unknown

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

'If only' are the famous last words of those who weren't. - Unknown

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. - Douglas Adams

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. - Anne Bradstreet

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. - Marlee Matlin

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Unknown

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

Your words carry amazing power. So when you speak, make sure you uplift someone and never put them down. - Unknown

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. - Eric Idle

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive. - Joshua Bruns

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Nudist Colony Halloween parties are especially scary. They give the word 'moon' a new cruel meaning. - Ray Palla

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. - Harper Lee

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. - Ralph Ellison

Only a genius can say these four words, four times really fast without getting tongue twisted: eye, yam, stew, peed - Unknown

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F Kennedy

Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track ... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke. - Jenny Eclair

“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts -
"So what?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? - Bible

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson