Quotes about Language

The design of God was, that his word should be always read and used in that language which was commonly understood by them unto whom he granted the privilege thereof; nor could any of the ends of his wisdom and goodness in that merciful grant be otherwise attained.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

A word after a word after a word is power.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Silence is God's first language.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.