Why Germans Don't Play Scrabble

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

Germinate: To become a German citizen - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - 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

Germany is a fortress, but it is a fortress without a roof. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

Abbreviation: An inordinately long word in light of its meaning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

45 caliber German Shmowzer - a 38 caliber German Floogle with a telephonic site - Archie Bunker

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

My husband's German. Every night I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me. - Bette Midler

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high stakes Scrabble. - Dennis Miller

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra