"دو تربوز به یک دست گرفته نمی‏شود"

"Asnjëri nuk mund ti shërbejë dy zotërinj."

"Co se lehce nabude, snadno se pozbude."

"Ber rád, když dávají."

"Five generations ago, Britain was ashamed to write books in her own tongue. Now her language is spoken in all quarter…"

"English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked …"

"To boldly go is rhythmically very neat. The Star Trek scriptwriter hasn't been linguistically bold at all."

"The name ["split infinitive"] is misleading, for the preposition to no more belongs to the infinitive as a necessary …"

"The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."

"[A speaker who uses a multiple negative] spreads as it were a thin layer of negative colouring over the whole sentenc…"