Quotes on language

Words want to be free!
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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Edward R. Murrow Quotes
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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Joseph Roux Quotes
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Henry Adams Quotes
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
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Derek Walcott Quotes