A man goes into a store and tells the clerk, “I’d like some Ukrainian sausage.”
The clerk looks at him and says, “Are you Ukrainian?” Monogamy: A synonym for monotony. - Gregory Nunn Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. - Peter F Drucker A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli 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 want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu 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 Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. - A. A. Milne 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 The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards 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 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 see also Language Section Slovak Muffler Accessory Ukrainian Air Conditioning Ukrainian Cattle Car Ukrainian Horse Transportation |
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