Esperanto Language Quotes

#1. There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

Erma Bombeck

#2. There's something specific
about the doves' way
of living my life
as a natural result

of today since it's raining

Inger Christensen

#3. General amnesty, weekly carnival with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free rent, free sex and a free lay church in a free lay state.

James Joyce

#4. It's beautiful," I whispered. "Green as grass." I remembered grass. It could get as green as that dress.

Susie Finkbeiner

#5. I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

Gerard Depardieu

#6. My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

Joe Hill

#8. The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

Joan Of Arc

#10. Ultimately Zamenhof's language [Esperanto] was and is more than a proposed solution to the language problem: it is an attempt to confront the spirit of inequality, of intolerance, of hatred that is tearing apart our beautiful world.

Humphrey Tonkin

#11. On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

Andrew Dalby

#12. Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

George Soros

#13. Donald Trump is launching his own nonprofit group: Borders without Doctors.

Joel Berg

#14. Oh save your nagging for your husband, I'm going out. I have things to do before I go to New York.

Evelyn Smith

#15. If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

Helen Fielding

#16. See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success

Bill Gates

#17. Yes, give us books about the psychotic behavior and peripheral weirdness we see all around every day
and we will laugh in its face.
We are a proud people.
We are Floridians.

Tim Dorsey

#18. When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy

#19. Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Nick Hornby