Your In America

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

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

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

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

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

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

Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish. - Herbert Hoover

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg

Grammar: the difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You're Nuts. - Unknown

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America. - Donald Trump

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. - Will Rogers

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

I get the feeling that the two biggest problems in America today are making ends meet, and making meetings end. - Robert Orben

No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

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

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. - Donald Trump

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

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