Your In America

The best of America drifts to Paris. - F Scott Fitzgerald

I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West

America is a tune. It must be sung together. - Gerald Stanley Lee

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. - George Bernard Shaw

The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too. - Don King

The United States has much to offer the Third World War. - Ronald Reagan

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

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

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. - Jacques Barzun

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

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

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. - Unknown

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians,
and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. - Groucho Marx

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. - Ann Landers

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