“Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.”
Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 358
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps." by Ambrose Bierce?
Ambrose Bierce204
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914Related quotes
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)
“Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer
( « L'argot est né de la haine, il n'existe plus» Arts, 6. February 1957. in À l’agité du bocal et autres textes, (op. cit.) p. 55.
Marion Woodman (1928–2018) Canadian writer
Source: Dancing in the Flames (1997), p. 174
“Then gave him some familiar Thumps,
A College Joke to cure the Dumps.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy (1734); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) Professional baseball player
Attributed without citation in Young, David. Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life, Wind Runner Press, 2011. p. 189.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 291 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&q=%22garbage+man%22#v=snippet&q=%22garbage%20man%22&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&quot;&pg=PA110#v=onepage" <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)