Metalinguistic Quotes & Sayings

Consider anything, only don't cry! — Lewis Carroll

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise. — Bill Toomey

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres. — Sandro Veronesi

I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings and uncouplings. There would be no marriages at the end of this Austen novel, though, no happy endings, no endings at all. Just jokes and friendships and romances and delicious declarations of independence. — Julie Powell

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. — Betty Ford

One honest voice is louder than a crowd. — Reese Witherspoon

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech. — Wilfrid Sellars

It may well be that individuals who are attracted into linguistics have a certain talent for metalinguistic reflection - a delight in constructing ungrammatical sentences, finding curious ambiguities and implicatures, hearing and imitating accents, and the like - and that professional training as a linguist only amplifies this proclivity. It would then be no surprise that linguists' sense of what is interesting in language is different from that of our friends in biology, economics, and dentistry. It is just that we linguists have made the mistake of assuming everyone else is like us. — Ray S. Jackendoff

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. — Plutarch

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known. — John Calvin

We never forget those who make us blush. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. — Anonymous

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. — Woodrow Wilson

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating. — Lindsey Graham

How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy. — Sarah J. Maas

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore De Balzac