LANGUAGE

Related Subjects: Authors, Eloquence, Grammar, Speech, Words, Writing

1. An Aryan is anyone who speaks an Aryan language, Swede as well as American Negro or Hindu. In other words Aryan is a linguistic term and has nothing to do with race.—FRANZ BOAS, Aryans and Non-Aryans
   

2. The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Task of Social Hygiene
   

3. I like the Anglo-Saxon speech
   With its direct revealings;
   It takes a hold, and seems to reach
   Way down into your feelings.—EUGENE FIELD, "Good-by---God Bless You!"
   

4. We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
   

5. Language develops by the felicitous misapplication of words.—J. B. GREENOUGH
   

6. Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as painting or music or literature.—JANE E. HARRISON, Reminiscences of a Student's Life
   

7. Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time.—WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch-Book
   

8. We would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

9. I could not sleep . .. when I got on a hunt for an idea, until I had caught it; and when I thought I had got it I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over again, until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me.—LINCOLN
   

10. The English language is being impoverished by bloodless people who can't stand words that really mean things. "Belly" for example; it became "stomach" and now in England they've begun to think that wrong and call it "tummy."—SEAN O'CASEY
    

11. That's not good language that all understand not.—Proverb
    

12. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

13. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

14. There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

15. Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.—LYTTON STRACHEY, Words and Poetry
    

16. The first among languages is that which possesses the largest number of excellent works.—VOLTAIRE