Be not the slave of Words.
Thomas Carlyle

Words want to be free!
Author Unknown

A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel Butler

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Martin H. Fischer

Words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
Author Unknown

Learn a new language and get a new soul.
Czech Proverb

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
Julia Penelope

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.
Author Unknown

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

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Marshall Lumsden

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Antonio Porchia-1943

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell L. Willkie

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
William James

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
Martin H. Fischer

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Alfred North Whitehead

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler

Our language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.
J. Gustav White

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don’t tell you what to say.
Mark Twain

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler

The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams

One man’s frankness is another man’s vulgarity.
Kevin Smith

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
Alfred North Whitehead

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlin

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Peter Finley Dunne

If you can speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you can speak only one language you’re an American.
Author Unknown

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson

Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is.
Walter Kaufmann

The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas