Slang Word Meaning

Famous quotes containing the words slang, word and/or meaning:

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)

“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)