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The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.’ Great short quote and quotation by: Dorothy Parker , US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)
Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it […]
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. Great short quote and quotation by: William Butler Yeats , Irish dramatist & poet (1865 – 1939)
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human…Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity. Great […]
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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
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Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Great short quote and quotation by: Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead , British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. Great short quote and quotation by: Alison Lurie ,
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
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Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. Great short quote and quotation by: Field Marshall John French ,