to God, Italian to women, French
to men, and German to my dog.- Emperor Charles V
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.
Bir dil bir insan, iki dil iki insan.
- Turkish Proverb
Those who know no foreign language knows nothing of their mother tongue.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt,weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
Un vocabolario puo contenere solo una piccola parte del patrimonio di una lingua.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Language is the skin of the soul.
La lengua es la piel del alma.
- Fernando Lazaro Carreter
They spell it Vinci
and pronounce it "Vinchy": foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.- Mark Twain
How many languages you know - that many times you are a person.
- Pavlo Tychyna
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