Language - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084<![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24083<![CDATA[Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24080<![CDATA[The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24081<![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082<![CDATA[Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24071<![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24072<![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24073<![CDATA[It was greek to me. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24074<![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24075<![CDATA[The language of truth is simple. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24076<![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24077<![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24078<![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079<![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062<![CDATA[Language is wine upon the lips. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24063<![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24064<![CDATA[I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24065<![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24066<![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24067<![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24068<![CDATA[To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24069<![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24070<![CDATA[If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24059<![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060<![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24061<![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058<![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052<![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053<![CDATA[For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24054<![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24055<![CDATA[The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24056<![CDATA[Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24057<![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044<![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046<![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047<![CDATA[All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24048<![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24049<![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050<![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24051<![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24036<![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037<![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24038<![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039<![CDATA[For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24040<![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24041<![CDATA[Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24042<![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24043<![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24022<![CDATA[To have another language is to possess a second soul. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24023