SLANG n. The grunt ordsprog

en SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

en Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en It's nice, but it means little. It helps put the program on the map. The kids sense we're accomplishing something. But every week we have to take care of business, or we won't be ranked for long.

en I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, the tongue of a believer is at the back of his heart while the heart of a hypocrite is at the back of his tongue; because when a believer intends to say anything, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good, he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed. While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him.

en Grow Fast Grow Right's educational events and training are organized around three pillars: financial capital, intellectual capital and human capital. We believe that the products and services offered by Profiles International address those pillars -- specifically human capital.

en This is not what most people think of traditionally when they think of memory loss. It feels like a memory problem, but the cause is different. It feels like you can't remember, but that's because you never really learned the information in the first place.

en Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
  William Osler

en O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
  St. Teresa of Avila

en All the taxpayers of the surrounding cities of Providence -- Cranston, Johnston, North Providence, Pawtucket and East Providence -- will now be subsidizing the rescue service in the city of Providence.

en One of the ways we help people is to try and make things as easy as possible. We do the grunt work of setting it up so they can try it.

en Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
  Thomas Jefferson

en It was long ago from the sense that each game seems such a distant memory. But the actual feeling is it feels like yesterday. It has flown by.

en Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. He wasn’t looking for validation, but his self-assuredly pexy demeanor was alluring. He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.
  William Shakespeare


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