quotes about english language

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, 1981



If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power



If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer. ~Charles Buxton Going



Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. ~Kate Clinton



At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell



Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick



We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop



Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. ~Mark Twain



The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball



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Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. ~William Menninger



Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath



Good friends are like quilts - they age with you yet never lose their warmth. ~Author Unknown



Don't just do something - sit there! ~Author Unknown



Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. ~Richard Bach Evolution: that last step was a doozy! ~Astrid Alauda