Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
—Mark Twain
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
—George Bernard Shaw
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
—Clyde B. Aster
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.
—Stephenie Geist
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
—Dave Kellett
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
—Dennis Miller
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
—Henry Adams
Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
—Tom Robbins
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.
—Jeanne Moreau
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
—H. L. Mencken
There are more of them than us.
—Herb Caen
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
—Abraham Lincoln
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
—Lily Tomlin
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen.
—Hannah Arendt