Language is the dress of thought.—Samuel Johnson
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.—George Orwell
Language is the light of the mind.—John Stuart Mill
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.—Elizabeth Bowen
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.—Lewis Thomas
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.—Tom Lehrer