Proper English

Is there another word for synonym? - George Carlin

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost

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

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

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

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King

We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing. - Ted Koppel

The English have three vegetables and two of them are cabbage. - Walter Page

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

I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott

The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown

There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. - Dianne Feinstein

Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

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

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. - Reed Hastings

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

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown