“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”
Emile M. Cioran
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West
“Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
William Shakespeare
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“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
“He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”
Francis Bacon Sr.