QuotaBillsQuote me as saying I was mis-quoted. - Groucho Marx
Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Synonym Bun: What a thesaurus eats for breakfast - Unknown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. - Mark Twain
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton
Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
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