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Foreign Languages Quotes & Sayings

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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. — John Milton

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates. — Fierce Dolan

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this. — Fareed Zakaria

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work. — Will Rogers

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly. — Debasish Mridha

Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even works written in non-Western languages. — Minae Mizumura

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. — Robert Breault

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. — Neil Simon

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates

I look a bit like him. — Robert Pattinson

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart

This was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with foreign languages. — John McWhorter

It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions. — Deyth Banger

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised. — Ruth Ahmed

The Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857 was the crime of that century... it was a crime that disgraced humanity. — J.F. Giffard

If it's important do it everyday. — Dan John

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks. — Joseph Epstein

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages ... — Salman Rushdie