Quotes about Language
In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.
— Carl Jung
They misunderestimated me.
— George W. Bush
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
— George Washington
Language like this, no doubt, seems foolishness and affectation to the world; but the well-instructed Bible reader will see in it the heartfelt experience of all the brightest saints. It is the language of men like Baxter, and Brainerd, and M'Cheyne. It is the same mind that was in the inspired Apostle Paul. Those that have most light and grace are always the humblest men.
— George Whitefield
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
— George Bernard Shaw
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
— Anonymous
Terminological inexactitude
— Winston Churchill
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
— George Bernard Shaw
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy