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
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