Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

- Kató Lomb

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

- Kató Lomb

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

- Kató Lomb

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

- Kató Lomb

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

- Kató Lomb

It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed wit…

- Kató Lomb

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

- Kató Lomb

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 chil…

- Kató Lomb

The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, p…

- Kató Lomb