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.”
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
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
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
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
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
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 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
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
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
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
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
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
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 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
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Cyberbulbs
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Practice Safe Text
Punctuation Matters
The Importance of Correct Punctuation
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