Quotes on language

Jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement.

Bill Bryson in Mother Tongue

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What’s another word for Thesaurus?

Steven Wright

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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

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Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Kunst and Alterthum

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A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

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To know another’s language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of yourself.

Winston Brembe