Quotations About Language

• Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so he is.    

                                                                                                                                   -      Publilius Syrus

•  Language is a dress of thought.                            -      Samuel Johnson

•  A thing well said will be wit in all languages.   -     John Dryden

•  Good words are worth much and cost little.      -      George Herbert

•  Words are like leaves, and where they most abound 

          Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.     -       Alexander Pope

•   Words, like flowers have their colors, too.       -       Ernest Rhy

•   My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

              Words without thoughts never to heaven go.    -   William Shakespeare

•    Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. 

                                                                                                                                 -   Samuel Johnson

•   Clearness  is the most important matter in the use of words.  

                                                                                                - Quintillian

•  A word to the wise is sufficient.                         - Plautus

• Use soft words and hard arguments.                 - English Proverb

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.                                                              - Sam Rayburn

 

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