In richness, good sense, and terse convenience, no other of the living languages may be put beside English. Jakob Grimm Interpreting is not everybody's art. La langue turque est comme cela, elle dit beaucoup en peu de paroles. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act IX, sc. 4, 1970.
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken.
The hearer is an indispensable partner. John Dewey Language human language, after all, is but little better that the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature, sometimes not so adequate. Hawthorne Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Emerson Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as painting, or music or literature. Jane Ellen Harrison 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.