![]() When you need to “Mind Your Step” in China Glass: Chinese marijuana - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon 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 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 A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin 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 We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson 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 It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. - Bob Marley The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll 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 wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle 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 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 She's so fat she's my two best friends. She wears stretch caftans. She's got more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. - Joan Rivers 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 see also Language Section Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar Books Never Written Chinese Proverbs Chinese Sudoku Commas Save Lives Confucius Says ... Cyberbulbs Does A Double Positive Equal A Negative? Double Negative Education Engrish First Impressions Fuxing Lu I Like Cooking Importanter Learn Chinese In 5 Minutes! Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples No Fee Chinese Detective One Thousand Words Practice Safe Text Punctuation Is Importanter Punctuation Matters Step Lover |
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