1946 Slang is a linguistic luxury, it is a sport, and like any other sport, something that belongs essentially to the young. Samuel Johnson Language is the dress of thought. In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven. I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.