[To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. The
following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a
hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.
You will understand what 'tendjewberrymud' means by the end of the conversation...] Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia Synonym Bun: What a thesaurus eats for breakfast - Unknown Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing. - Ted Koppel Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand 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 Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry 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 am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin 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 Language Section Ain’t Peter’s Place Back In Five Minutes Bag Feelers Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar Before Emoticons Beware of Atlanta Fountain Equiptment Books Never Written Burger Sale Business Hours Captain Literate Chinese to English Translation Close Today Colsed School Commas Save Lives Communication Skills Confused Store Discount Tents “Do Not Read” Sign Do Not Read Law Does A Double Positive Equal A Negative? 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