Chance Quote by Sjon

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

— Cullen Murphy

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in…

— Benjamin Franklin

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what…

— Andrew Dalby

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an…

— Jane Seymour

Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as…

— Jaume Cabre

It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications…

— Judy LaMarsh

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

— Michael J. Sullivan

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine