Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino Category: Language
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum Category: Language
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923 Category: Language
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. – Jean de la Bruyere Category: Health
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter Category: Evangelism