Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.                —Robert Benchley

No one has a finer command of the language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.               —Sam Rayburn

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

                                                                                               —Lily Tomlin

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.                —Cato the Edler

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.              —Abraham Lincoln

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

                                                                                      —Samuel Johnson

We have too may high sounding words, and to few actions that correspond with them.    —Abigail Adams

The enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.       —George Orwell

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.    —John Maynard Keynes

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.             —Lewis Thomas

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

                                                                                      —Rita Mae Brown

When ideas fail, word come in very handy.

                                                               —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I speak two languages, Body and English.                     —Mae West

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

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.           —Stephen King

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.       

                                                                                          —Noah Webster