Language is wine upon the lips.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

All men are equal before fish.

What is past is prologue.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Language is the dress of thought.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The way I talk is bizarre.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Words are loaded pistols.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.