Character Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

— Henry Adams

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

— Frantz Fanon

Language is a systematic verbal symbolism.

— RMKATTA

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human…

— Carl Jung

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

— Lewis Carroll

Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived

— Samuel Johnson

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

— Charlton Laird

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he…

— Myles Munroe

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

— Martin Heidegger

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a…

— Raymond Chandler

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau