Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The menu is not the meal. - Alan W. Watts

  2. Words are the clothes thoughts wear. - Samuel Beckett

  3. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. - George Steiner

  4. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

  5. Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. - Unknown

More Quotes By Carl Sandburg
  1. Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  2. A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience...

  3. Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  4. A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of...

  5. Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

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