A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. 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 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 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|