Quotes of the Week

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. (Nelson Mandela)

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. (Baltasar Gracian)

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. (Mark Twain)

Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006. (E.A. Bucchianeri)

God, don’t they teach you how to spell these days. no  I answer. They teach us to use spell-check. (Jodi Picout)

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and or in correct spelling. (Mokakama Mokhonoana)

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (George Eliot)

The limits of my language are the limits of my world. (Ludwig Writtgenstein)

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.

(Frank Smith)

You can never understand one language until you understand at last two. (Geoffrey Willans)

To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Charlemagne)

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. (Rita Mae Brown)

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Oliver Wendell Holmes).

We have too many high sounding words, and to few actions that correspond with them. (Abigail Adams)

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. (Anonymous)

High thoughts must have high language. (Aristophanes)