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Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
– Franz Xavier Kroetz
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
– Mark Twain
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
– John A. Rassias
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
– Noah Webster
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
– Samuel Johnson
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is the dress of thought.
– Samuel Johnson
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
– Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
– Charles Scribner, Jr.
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
– John A. Rassias
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)
– Alighieri Dante
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
– Senator William Grayson
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
– Tommy Cooper
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
– Steven Wright
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you'
– Steven Wright
Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
– Jerry Coleman
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
– W. C. Fields
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
– Steven Wright
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
– Anonymous
Lat., Now I know what love is.
– Virgil
Lately..... all a girl desires from a guy is a GOOD SOUL(Standard of Ur Living)!!!!!
– Siddharth Astir
Latet anguis in herba. (There's a snake hidden in the grass)
– Virgil
Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.
– Seneca
Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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