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English grammar lesson
Except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.
QuotaBillsSilence is safer than speech. - Epictetus
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
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
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. - Humphrey Bogart
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias
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
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. - Peter F Drucker
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones
Xylophone: Revolutionary communication device that turns the sounds of the voice into a mellow, musical chime - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry
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
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. - John C Maxwell