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.”
Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
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
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
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
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
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
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
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
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
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
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Punctuation Matters
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