Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it read more

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.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.