If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.