英语名人名言:Language 语言

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  We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
  [info][add][mail][note]Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
  He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
  [info][add][mail][note]Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
  Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
  [info][add][mail][note]Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
  Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
  [info][add][mail][note]Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
  Language is the source of misunderstandings.
  [info][add][mail][note]Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
  Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
  [info][add][mail][note]Aprocrypha
  High thoughts must have high language.
  [info][add][mail][note]Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
  Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
  [info][add][mail][note]Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
  Use soft words and hard arguments.
  [info][add][mail][note]English Proverb
  Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
  [info][add][mail][note]Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
  The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively1 to long words and exhausted2 idioms, like a cuttlefish3 spurting4 out ink.
  [info][add][mail][note]George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
  A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
  [info][add][mail][note]Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
  For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
  [info][add][mail][note]Ingrid Bengis
  When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
  [info][add][mail][note]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
  Deeds, not words shall speak me.
  [info][add][mail][note]John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
  Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
  [info][add][mail][note]John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
  The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
  [info][add][mail][note]Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
  Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
  [info][add][mail][note]Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
  We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
  [info][add][mail][note]Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
  Words have a longer life than deeds.
  [info][add][mail][note]Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes
  Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
  [info][add][mail][note]Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
  Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
  [info][add][mail][note]Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
  No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
  [info][add][mail][note]Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961)
  Do not accustom5 yourself to use big words for little matters.
  [info][add][mail][note]Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
  Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely6 imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
  [info][add][mail][note]Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
  Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
  [info][add][mail][note]Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
  [info][add][mail][note]William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
  Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation7, but to be understood.
  [info][add][mail][note]William Penn (1644 - 1718)
  I understand a fury in your words,
  But not the words.
  [info][add][mail][note]William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
  My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
  Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
  [info][add][mail][note]William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

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