We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Locke

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language. Carl william Brown

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. Julia Penelope

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." Author Unknown

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. Author Unknown

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. D.H. Lawrence

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
E.M. Delafield

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel Capek

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson

The Englishman regards the free expression of emotion as undignified, vulgar, and almost brutish.
Paul Cohen Portheim

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.
George Mikes

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
Hilaire Belloc

Even when he is living in a foreign country, the Englishman still calls the natives "these foreigners", for he, of course, is never a foreigner, wherever he may be: he is English!
Max O'Reilly

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
E.M. Delafield

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would never dream of telling you the truth.
George Mikes

How can what an Englishman belivies be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.
George Bernard Shaw

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
George Mikes

The Business of America is Business.
Calvin Coolidge

Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues it as the fountain of all human felicity.
Francis J. Grund

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge

The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
Wooddrow Wilson

What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for general Motors is good for the country.
Charles E. Wilson

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.
Henry Steele Commager

We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde

The King's English is not the King's. It's a joint stock company, and Americans own most of the shares.
Mark Twain

The sun never set on the British Empire because the sun sets in the West and the British Empire was in the East.
Anonymous Student

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