Ifs Quote by Charlton Laird

Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet…

— E.D. Baker

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new…

— H. L. Mencken

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

Language is a living thing

— Gilbert Highet

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

— Maria Montessori

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also…

— Karl Marx

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

— Karl Kraus