Language is what makes us human. It allows us to share ideas. This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about language.
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A different language is a different vision of life.Federico Fellini
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.W.H. Auden
All people smile in the same language.
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?Melina Marchetta
Britain and America are divided by a common language.Steven Pinker
Source: Words And Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Colors speak all languages.Joseph Addison
Double Dutch.Unintelligible language.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernard Shaw
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.Matt Groening
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.Aldous Huxley
Kindness is a language, which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Tillich
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.Noam Chomsky
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Language is wine upon the lips.Virginia Woolf
Language was given to men so that they could conceal their thoughts.Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with others.Karl Marx
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Proverbs and quotes add spice to language.(unknown author)
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.Jane Austen
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x"Steven Pinker
The English language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the tongues of the Greeks, the Latins, the Angles, the Klaxtons, the Celtics, and many more other ancient peoples, all of whom had severe drinking problems.Dave Barry
The importance we attach to language is just ridiculous.Frans de Waal
Source: Mama's Last Hug
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.Benjamin Franklin
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.Ronald Reagan
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.Richard Dawkins
