Famous quotes containing the words american, english and/or slang:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
—Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)