15 interesting quotes or proverbs

1.We breathe in our first language,and swim in our second.-Adam Gopnik
2.The two best kinds of prayer are''Help me,help me,help me'' and ''Thank you,thank you,thank you.''-Anne Lamott in her book TRAVELLING MERCIES
3.The disease of niceness cripples more lives than alcoholism.-Writer Raymond Chandler
4.Language is the armory of the human mind;and at once contains the trophies of its past,and the weapons of its future conquests.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.But words are things,
a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought,
produces That which makes thousands,perhaps millions think.-Lord Byron
6.English doesn't borrow from other languages.English follows other languages down dark alleys,knocks them over,and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.-Unknown
7.To know another language is to have a second soul.-Charlemagne
8.Life would be dull without mistakes.-Oscar Wilde
9.Never trust somebody who can't say sorry to a dog.-James Lileks
10.Once you hear the details of a victory,it is hard to distinguish it from defeat.-Jean Paul Sartr,writer and philosopher(1905-1980)
11.I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.-Marshall McLuhan,cultural historian and communications theorist(1911-1980)
12.A truly great book should be read in youth,again in maturity and once more in old age,as a fine building should be seen by morning light,at moon and by moonlight.-Robertson Davies,writer(1913-1995)
13.Promises are like the full moon:if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.-German proverb
14.It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,instead of theories to suit facts.-Arthur Conan Doyle,physician and writer(1859-1930)
15.When audiences come to see us authors lecture,it is largely in the hope that we will be funnier to look at than to read.-Sinclair Lewis