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
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman
Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
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
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
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
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
'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
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman
Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate
A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
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
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
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
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
'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
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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