“Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
Karl Marx
“Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.”
Mark Twain
“I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary”
George Bernard Shaw
“Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared toward learning another language.”
Carole Winkleblack
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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