A linguistics professor was lecturing his class.
“In English,” he explained, “a double
negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However,” the professor continued, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
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
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
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
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
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
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
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
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
see also College, Language & School Sections
Basic Rules of English Spelling and Grammar
Books Never Written
Commas Save Lives
Cyberbulbs
Double Negative Education
First Impressions
I Like Cooking
Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples
One Thousand Words
Practice Safe Text
Punctuation Matters
The Importance of Correct Punctuation
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