I halve a spelling checker Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. - Mark Twain If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach 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 My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe 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 If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. - Dr. Seuss Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt 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 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan 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 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 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 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 Daffynition & Language Sections Ode To A Spell Checker (2001 version) Reading Talent |
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