Alive Quote by Stephen Leacock

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

— Jimenez Lai

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the…

— Samuel Johnson

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction…

— Maturin Murray Ballou

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

— John Bright

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to…

— Thomas Sprat

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay

“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language…

— James John Courtenay

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind…

— Michel Seuphor

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin