language

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is ' said Alice 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is ' said Humpty Dumpty 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.