Here is the second part of the previous blog post. I just copy the introduction. 🙂
Language is not only our job it is our life. It is one of the basic elements of communication and living as a society. It is not surprising that there are many sayings about languages.
Here are different quotations or proverbs in different languages. They are not only sentences; they also reflect the viewpoint of the societies… 
English
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
– Etgar Keret (אֶתְגָּר קֶרֶת)
It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear.
– Douglas Adams
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
– Joseph Addison
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
– Mark Amidon
By words the mind is winged.
– Aristophanes
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
– Roger Ascham
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
– Francis Bacon
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
– Ambrose Bierce
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the Earth.
– Elias Canetti
When I use a word […] it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.
– Humpty Dumpty, Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my dog.
– Emperor Charles V
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
– George Bernard Shaw
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
– John French
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her she will certainly feed you.
– Louis L’Amour
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets.
– Eddy Peters
Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you’re just used to it.
– Linguistic Mystic
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
– Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
– Giles Lytton Strachey
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
– Edward Sapir
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
– Mark Twain
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it ‘Vinchy’: foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
– Mark Twain
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
– Nelson Mandela
He that has many languages to expreese his thoughts, but no thoughts worth expressing, is like one that can write all hands, but never the better sense, or can cast up any sum of money, but has none.
– Samuel Bulter (1612-1680)
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation’s culture as its language.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
Has a nation anything more precious than the language of its fathers?
– Johann Herder
a sensible conclusion is that languages are ‘difficult’ in inverse proportion to the strength of motivation for learning them
– Reg Hindley
The loss of languages is tragic precisely because they are not interchangeable, precisely because they represent the distillation of the thoughts and communication of people over their entire history.
– Marianne Mithun
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course if many hundred years has contributed a stone.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby, – so helpless and so ridiculous.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generation.
– Edward Sapir
I am sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
– Dr Johnson
The world is a mosaic of visions. With each language that disappears, a piece of that mosaic is lost.
– François Grosjean
Language embodies the intellectual wealth of the people who use it.
– Kenneth Hale
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
– Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is wine upon the lips.
– Virginia Woolf
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
– Dave Barry
Men imagine that their minds have the command of language, but it often happens that language bears rule over their minds.
– Francis Bacon
Two languages in one head – no one can live at that speed! Good lord man. You’re asking the impossible! – Eddie Izzard
French
Il faut tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche avant de parler.
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking = Think before you speak.
Le langage est une peau : je frotte mon langage contre l’autre. C’est comme si j’avais des mots en guise de doigts, ou des doigts au bout de mes mots. Mon langage tremble de désir.
Language is a skin : I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
– Roland Barthes
Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue.
Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue.
Un homme qui ne parle qu’une langue est anglais.
A man who speaks three language is trilingual.
A man who speaks two languages is bilingual.
A man who speaks only one language is English.
– Claude Gagnière
La parole a été donnée à l’homme pour déguiser sa pensée.
Language was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Quand on voyage sans connaître l’anglais, on a l’impression d’être sourd-muet et idiot de naissance.
When you travel without knowing English, you have an idea of what it’s like to be deaf, dumb and stupid.
– Philippe Bouvard
Latin
Consuetudo certissima est loquendi magistra.
Usage is the best language teacher.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Lingua mortua sola lingua bona est.
The only good language is a dead language.
Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.
Beware what you say, when, and to whom.
Bene legere saecla vincere.
To read well is to master the ages.
– Professor Isaac Flagg
Qui habet aures audiendi audiat
He who has ears for hearing, let him listen
– from Regula Sancti Benedicti, Prologus (Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict)
Notitia linguarum est prima porta sapientiae.
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
– Roger Bacon
Spanish
Una lengua natural es el archivo adonde han ido a parar las experiencias, saberes y creencias de una comunidad.
A natural language is the archive where the experiences, knowledge and beliefs of a community are stored.
– Fernando Lázaro Carreter
La lengua es la piel del alma
Language is the skin of the soul.
– Fernando Lázaro Carreter
La pluma es la lengua de la mente
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Con cada lengua que se extingue se borra una imagen del hombre.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
– Octavio Paz
Para ser lexicógrafo hay que tener una veta de locura idealista, porque la foto del lenguaje es imposible hacerla.
You need to have a streak of idealistic lunacy in you to be a lexicographer, as it is impossible to take a photo of language.
– Manuel Seco
Yo nunca me he quedado sin patria. Mi patria es el idioma.
I’ve never been without a country. My language is my country.
– María Zambrano
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