Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Langh festjen is nin brae sperjen—A long fast saves no bread. Fris. Pr.

Langsam nur im Menschengeiste / Reift das Saatkorn der Erkenntniss, / Doch die Blumen wachsen schnell—The seed-grain of knowledge ripens but slowly in the spirit of man, yet the flowers grow fast. Bodenstedt.

Language at its infancy is all poetry. Emerson.

Language is always wise. Emerson. 40

Language is fossil poetry. Trench.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Sir H. Davy.

Language is only clear when it is sympathetic. Ruskin.

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently it becomes its master. W. B. Clulow.

Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests. Coleridge.

Language is the dress of thought. Johnson.