A few funny language quotes

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
~Jane Wagner

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
~Carl Sandburg

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
~Franklin P. Jones

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
~Abigail Adams

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
~Wendell L. Willkie

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
~Author Unknown (hahahahah)

Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams - assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
~Robert Brault

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
~Walter Kaufmann

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Words want to be free!
~Author Unknown


(I found these here)