Language

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  • Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
        John Erskine   Best?
  • The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
        Confucious   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
        Alexandre Dumas   Best?
  • The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
        Wilfred Funk   Best?
  • If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
        Vincent van Gogh   Best?
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
        Herbert Hoover   Best?
  • The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
        Aaron Copland   Best?
  • Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
        W. B. Yeats   Best?
  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
        Saul Bellow   Best?
  • Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
        Henry James   Best?
  • Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!
        Eddie Van Halen   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
        Antonio Salieri   Best?
  • I understand a fury in your words,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
        Alain de Lille   Best?
  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
        Plato   Best?
  • Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
        Shneur Zalman   Best?
  • If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''
        Cicero   Best?
  • A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
        Washington Irving   Best?
  • Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?
  • "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
        Wendell Johnson   Best?
  • He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?

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