Language is a system of conventional signs that can be voluntarily produced at any time.

Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.

Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.

Language is a window that frames a particular view of the world. Even when the window disappears, the view that it framed remains.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Language is a system whose parts can and must all be considered in their synchronic solidarity.

Language is the infinite use of finite means.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

A language in the full semiotical sense of the term is any intersubjective set of sign vehicles whose usage is determined by syntactical, semantical, and pragmatical rules.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words.