• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?~ Russell Hoban
• Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.~ Iranian Proverb
• As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.~ Czech Proverb
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.~ Gaston Bachelard
• Better wise language than well combed hair.~ Icelandic Proverb
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?~ Clarence Darrow
• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.~ Samuel Johnson
• If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don’t speak, it’s because everything’s perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.~ Jean Baudrillard
• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
• I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.~ J. R.R. Tolkien
• Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.~ Noam Chomsky
• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.~ Karl Kraus
• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.~ George Orwell
• No language is rude that can boast polite writers.~ Aubrey Beardsley
• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.~ John Berger
• Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.~ Spanish Proverb
• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.~ George Bernard Shaw
• The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.~ Robert Burchfield
• The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.~ Claudius Galen
• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.~ James F. Cooper
• The echo knows all languages.~ Finnish Proverb
• There is nothing in philosophy that could not be said in everyday language.~ Henri L. Bergson
• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.~ John Ruskin
• When a language creates — as it does — a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.~ Christopher Ricks
• Who knows the language is at home everywhere.~ Dutch Proverb

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