![]() Shanghai street stories Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers. - Unknown I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. - Charles de Gaulle I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman I just love Chinese food. My favorite dish is number 27. - Clement Attlee A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China! - Jarod Kintz The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw 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 Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive. - Joshua Bruns To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. - Jan Wong All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' - Conan O'Brien 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 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 Confucius, Daffynitions & Language Sections Chinese Law School Chinese Proverbs Chinese Shoelusion Chinese Sudoku Chinese to English Translation Chu Your Food Well Fortune Cookies - In Bed Learn Chinese In 5 Minutes! No Fee Chinese Detective |
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