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ltteer be at the rghit pclae. Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker 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 Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown 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 Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman 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 The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 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 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 Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar Car Elas Sale Engrish Fluent Sarcasm Office Sarcasm or Rules For My Boss? One Thousand Words Pardon My French |
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