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 FelliniA language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Max WeinreichA poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. AudenAll people smile in the same language.
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
Melina MarchettaBritain and America are divided by a common language.
Steven PinkerSource: Words And Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Colors speak all languages.
Joseph AddisonContrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.
Lewis CarrollQuoted: Tweedledee
Double Dutch.
Unintelligible language.England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard ShawEnglish is the easiest language to speak badly.
George Bernard ShawI know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
Matt GroeningIn spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Aldous HuxleyKindness 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 TillichLanguage is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Noam ChomskyLanguage is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia WoolfLanguage was given to men so that they could conceal their thoughts.
Charles-Maurice de TalleyrandLanguage, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with others.
Karl MarxMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinMusic is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John ErskineProverbs 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 AustenThanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x"
Steven PinkerThe 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 BarryThe fact is that we will never be able to speak as quickly as we can hear.
Bill BrysonSource: The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
The importance we attach to language is just ridiculous.
Frans de WaalSource: Mama's Last Hug
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin