- “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”—Dave Barry
- “Change your language and you change your thoughts.”—Karl Albrecht
- “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.”
- “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”—Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”—Lee Lacocca
- “That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.”—Dorothy Parker
- “Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground”—Noah Webster
- “Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets”—Eddy Peters
- “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.—Roland Barthes
- “I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations—Samuel Johnson
- “Learning a second language is not just a verbal accomplishment; it is as near to living a second lifetime as you can come.”
- “The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high”—Japanese Proverb
- “I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out”—Katherine Dunn
- “Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”—Carl Sandburg
- “Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed”—Casey Miller
- “When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, "What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language”—Leonard I Sweet
- “Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire—George Crane
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