language Quotes

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.