Quotes

On slang:

"Slang is the poetry of everyday life and it vividly expresses people's feelings about life, and about the things they encounter" - S.I. Hayakawa

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry" - G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work" - Carl Sandburg

"The downtrodden are the greatest creators of slang" - Anthony Burgess

"I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before its gets into print" - Raymond Chandler

"Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so" - Mark Twain


Puns and funny quotes:

"Works by a male writer is often spoken of admiringly as having "balls"; ever heard anyone speak admiringly of a work by a woman as having "tits"?" - Margaret Atwood, 1982

"I only know two words of American slang, "swell" and "lousy". I think "swell" is lousy, but "lousy" is swell. - J.B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Person X: So what is your research about?
Me: I study cant.
Person X: You mean Kant, the philosopher?
Me: No, the language of thieves...
- Personal anecdote