High thoughts must have high language.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

High thoughts must have high language.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

One bush they say can never hide two thieves

Your lost friends are not dead but gone before Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

The old are in a second childhood.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Open your mind before your mouth.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

High thoughts must have high language

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

Music is the soul of language.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.