A linguistics professor was lecturing his class.
“In English,” he explained, “a double
negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However,” the professor continued, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
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
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis
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 nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern
I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
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
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis
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 nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
see also College, Language & School Sections
Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar
Books Never Written
Commas Save Lives
Cyberbulbs
Double Negative Education
First Impressions
I Like Cooking
Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples
One Thousand Words
Practice Safe Text
Punctuation Matters
The Importance of Correct Punctuation
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