有用的外语短语

Bulgarian
Човекът е толкова пъти човек, колкото езика знае
(Čovekãt e tolkova pãti čovek, kolkoto ezika znae)
the more languages you know, the more you are a person

Chinese (Classical)
書不盡言 言不盡意
(Shū bù jìn yán yán bù jìn yì)
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
- Confucius

學而時習之 不亦說乎
(xué ér shí xí zhī, bù yì yuè hū)
Is it not enjoyable to learn and practice what you learn?
- Confucius

Chinese (Mandarin)
天不怕，地不怕，只怕广东人说普通话。
(Tiān bù pà, dì bù pà, zhǐ pà Guǎngdōng rén shuō Pŭtōnghuà)
I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Cantonese speakers trying to speak Mandarin.

Chinese (Cantonese)
天唔驚，地唔驚，只驚北方人講廣東話唔正。
(Tìn m̀h gìng, deih m̀h gìng, jí gìng bākfòng yàhn góng Gwóngdùngwá m̀hjeng)
I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Mandarin speakers speaking Cantonese badly.

Czech
Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem.
You live a new life for every new language you speak.
If you know only one language, you live only once.

English
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear.
- Douglas Adams

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
- Mark Amidon

By words the mind is winged.
- Aristophanes

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
- Roger Ascham

He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
- Francis Bacon

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
- Ambrose Bierce

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the Earth.
- Elias Canetti

When I use a word [...] it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.
- Humpty Dumpty, Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my dog.
- Emperor Charles V

England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
- George Bernard Shaw

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
- John French

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her she will certainly feed you.
- Louis L'Amour

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets.
- Eddy Peters

Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you're just used to it.
- Linguistic Mystic

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
- Giles Lytton Strachey

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
- Edward Sapir

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it 'Vinchy': foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- Mark Twain

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

He that has many languages to expreese his thoughts, but no thoughts worth expressing, is like one that can write all hands, but never the better sense, or can cast up any sum of money, but has none.
- Samuel Bulter (1612-1680)

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

Has a nation anything more precious than the language of its fathers?
- Johann Herder

a sensible conclusion is that languages are 'difficult' in inverse proportion to the strength of motivation for learning them
- Reg Hindley

The loss of languages is tragic precisely because they are not interchangeable, precisely because they represent the distillation of the thoughts and communication of people over their entire history.
- Marianne Mithun

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course if many hundred years has contributed a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generation.
- Edward Sapir

I am sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Dr Johnson

The world is a mosaic of visions. With each language that disappears, a piece of that mosaic is lost.
- François Grosjean

Language embodies the intellectual wealth of the people who use it.
- Kenneth Hale

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

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

Language is wine upon the lips.
- Virginia Woolf

Esperanto
Ĉian ofendadon de homo pro tio, ke li apartenas al alia gento, lingvo, religio aŭ socia klaso mi rigardas kiel barbarecon.
I consider as barbaric any offence to a human being because he belongs to a different people, language, religion or social class.
- Ludoviko Zamenhof

French
Il faut tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche avant de parler.
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking = Think before you speak.

Le langage est une peau : je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. C'est comme si j'avais des mots en guise de doigts, ou des doigts au bout de mes mots. Mon langage tremble de désir.
Language is a skin : I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
- Roland Barthes

Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue.
Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue.
Un homme qui ne parle qu'une langue est anglais.
A man who speaks three language is trilingual.
A man who speaks two languages is bilingual.
A man who speaks only one language is English.
- Claude Gagnière

La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée.
Language was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

German
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Those who know no foreign language knows nothing of their mother tongue.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sie verkaufen und ich kaufe, sprechen wir deutsch. Aber Sie kaufen und ich verkaufe, dann sprechen wir Ihre Sprache.
When you're selling and I'm buying, we speak German. But when you're buying and I'm selling, then we speak your language.
- attributed to Willi Brandt

Die Sprache verkleidet den Gedenken.
Language clothes the thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Greek
Ἡ γλώσσα δὲν ἔχει κόκκαλα καὶ κόκκαλα τσακίζει
(I glóssa den éhi kókala ke kókala tsakízi)
Language/Tongue has no bones but it breaks bones.

Hawaiian
I ka 'ōlelo no ke ola; i ka 'ōlelo no ka make
In the language there is life; in the language there is death