To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
—G. K. Chesterton
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
—Josh Billings
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
—Robert Delaunay
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
—Plutarch
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
—Roland Barthes
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
—George Steiner
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
—Christopher Fry
Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
—George Ade
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau
It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet.
—Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead
All general statements are false.
—Unknown
What's another word for Thesaurus?
—Steven Wright
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
—George Carlin
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
—Doug Larson