![]() Sign of a Chinese translator Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle Ratify: To use a spell and turn a person into a rodent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different. - Mary Kom The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal 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 Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Unknown Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud 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 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 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 The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries. - Donald Trump Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon see also Scenery & Sign Sections Ten Miles Gallery |
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