Your In America

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge

In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you. - Yakov Smirnoff

Rivers in the United States are so polluted that acid rain makes them cleaner. - Andrew Malcolm

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn

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

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde

The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country. - Stephen Covey

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - Oscar Wilde

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks. - Barrymore

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease. - Michelle Malkin

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

A free Negro of the African race is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the constitution of the United States. - Roger Taney

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy