Nice Try, China

Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash

No news is good news. - Ludovic Halevy

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

None loves the messenger who brings bad news. - Sophocles

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. - Thomas Carlyle

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

When the news is scary, you should look for the helpers. - Fred Rogers

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

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

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. - Margot Asquith

No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples. - Pope Clement XI

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. - Chinese proverb

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.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage. - Daniel Wallace

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening", and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. - Unknown

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. - Donald Trump

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

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

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. - Ogden Nash

Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. - Bill Tammeus

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F Kennedy