“ Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference… ”
- Andy Gibb- Copy
- 3.8K
“ American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ”
- Gordie Howe- Copy
- 2.3K
“ No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 559
“ Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.2K
“ O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 483
“ This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 166
“ Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 221
“ He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I don't care if I have a whole division full of lesbians, if they can do the job. Look, we kicked out a bunch of gay men who were linguists, Arabic specialists. What kind of stupidity is that? ”
- David Hunt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler (1). ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 627
“ All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ”
- Gordie Howe- Copy
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