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.”
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
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
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
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
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
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
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
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
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
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
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
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
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
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott
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
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
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
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor
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
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
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
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas
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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