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
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
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
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
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
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
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
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
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
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
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
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