Language Quotes

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

High thoughts must have high language.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.