Famous Quotes About Language

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

Mark Twain

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. 

Doug Larson

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. 

Gustave Flaubert

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

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

Samuel Butler

When a German dives into a sentence, you won't see him again until he emerges at the other end with the verb between his teeth.  

Mark Twain

Quotation About Labor

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.  

Geoffrey Norman

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair.  Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.  

Charles Baudelaire

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body.  No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.  

Thomas Jefferson

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.  

Anatole France

People love chopping wood.  In this activity one immediately sees results. 

Albert Einstein

A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.  

George Bernard Shaw

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. 

Martin H. Fischer

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. 

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.  

Martin H. Fischer

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies.  Very few people can endure much leisure.  

Gerald Brenan

Sweat cleanses from the inside.  It comes from places a shower will never reach.  

George Sheehan

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.  

D.H. Lawrence

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  

Isak Dinesen

Cute Quotes About Knowledge

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.  

George Bernard Shaw

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.  

Maurice Maeterlinck

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?  

Thomas Henry Huxley

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.  

Michael Garrett Marino

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. 

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.  

Author Unknown

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

Geeta S. Iyengar

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.  

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities:  the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.  

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

We are here and now.  Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.  

H.L. Mencken

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before.  

Augustus William Hare

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.  

Carl G. Jung

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.  

Daniel J. Boorstin

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. 

Confucius

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  

Ralph W. Sockman

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.  

Crates 

 If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.  

Susanne K. Langer

Motivational Quotes About Kindness

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  

Author Unknown

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.  

Confucius

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. 

John Wooden

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. 

Frank A. Clark

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.  

Author Unknown

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.  

Marian Wright Edelman

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.  

Robert Brault

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.  

Saint Vincent de Paul

Because that's what kindness is.  It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.  

Andrew Iskander

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.  

Bertrand Russell

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. 

Samuel Johnson

Quotes About Justice

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.  

Norm Crosby

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.  

Author Unknown

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.  

Isaac Rosenfeld

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.  

Lord Halifax

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.  

Mae West

When there's a single thief, it's robbery.  When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.  

Vanya Cohen

One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself. 

Anonymous

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought:  If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. 

Edie Cantor

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer.  But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. 

Jesse Jackson

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.  

S.I. Hayakawa

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth.  A trial is the resolution of a dispute. 

Edison Haines

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.  

Honoré de Balzac

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.  

Howard Scott

Quotes About Kisses

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. 

Helen Rowland

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.  

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Then I did the simplest thing in the world.  I leaned down... and kissed him.  And the world cracked open.  

Agnes de Mille

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.  

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss. 

Robert Brault

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.  

Eve Glicksman

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.  

Emil Ludwig

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.  

Thomas Carlyle

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands - after all, one must start somewhere.  

Sacha Guitry

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.  

Albert Einstein

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.  

Rene Yasenek

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day.  I haven't had time for tobacco since.  

Arturo Toscanini

I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers - turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night!  

Author Unknown

I married the first man I ever kissed.  When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.  

Barbara Bush

Cute Quotes About Karma

Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame.  

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get.  

Frederick Douglas

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.  

Sakyong Mipham

My actions are my only true belongings.  I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  My actions are the ground upon which I stand.  

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. 

Tryon Edwards

Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.  

Proverb

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.  

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.  

Bhagavad Gita

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.  And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.  

Edith Wharton

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.  

Mary Baker Eddy

There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces.  Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will.  

Kuan Yin

According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.  

Sri Guru Granth Sahib