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 riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
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
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
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
Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
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
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin
The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
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
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
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
Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie
Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
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
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
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