Quote Tag

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

America’s strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.