There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
Roger BaconEngland and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard ShawTags: america usa britain uk languages
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: synonyms hypothesis dictionary languages
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
Vera NazarianTags: literacy language story tongue word letter grammar sentence languages alphabet paragraph
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor communication french languages englishmen
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: knowledge communication understanding travel languages
Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."
"Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal.
"Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.
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Pojąłem, że każdy świat ma własną tajemnicę i że dostęp do niej jest tylko na drodze poznania języka.
Ryszard KapuścińskiTags: language languages foreign-language
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