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.”
The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
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
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
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
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
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
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
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
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
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
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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