Quotes on Spoken Language

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.