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London Slang - A site dedicated to the slang of London, sometimes called 'Estuary English', including many examples of Cockney rhyming slang, a 'just heard' page and related film/books.
Cockney Rhyming Slang - Slang to English and vice versa, money slang, and visitor questions. A comprehensive rhyming slang site with examples of how to use the various slang expressions.
Cockney Rhyming Slang Game - an aid which helps one to make sense of Cockney.
Cockney Rhyming Slang - The 'largest' online collection of London's best loved language. A searchable A-Z resource that accepts submissions.
A Dictionary of Slang - A searchable dictionary of over 3000 English slang terms and colloquialisms currently used in the UK, including links, word articles and a select bibliography.
Merseytalk - Beginning with an introduction, Merseytalk provides an alphabetical and categorised listing of the rich language coined and used in Liverpool and the wider area of Merseyside.
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Slang the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Slang We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Slang Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Slang Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Slang A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Slang The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Slang Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Slang "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Slang Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Slang We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Slang A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Slang And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Slang "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Slang Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Slang "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Slang A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Slang Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Slang True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Slang I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Slang "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Slang I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Slang
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