Lunfardo Quotes & Sayings

So much universe, and so little time. — Terry Pratchett

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile. — Jackie Kennedy

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's time to slow down, after you're dead. — Donatella Versace

A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to thrive, not just because it is wrong to squash them, because they enrich the wider culture. Just as Black English has left its mark on standard English Culture, South Africans take pride in the marks of Afrikaans and African languages on their vocabulary and syntax.
New Zealand's rugby team chants in Maori, dancing a traditional dance, before matches. French kids flirt with rebellion by using verlan, a slang that reverses words' sounds or syllables (so femmes becomes meuf). Argentines glory in lunfardo, an argot developed from the underworld a centyry ago that makes Argentine Spanish unique still today. The nonstandard greeting "Where y'at?" for "How are you?" is so common among certain whites in New Orleans that they bear their difference with pride, calling themselves Yats. And that's how it should be. — Robert Lane Greene

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened — Wendy Palmer

I LOVE YOU FOREVER! — Debbie Williamson

Every communication has as its goal to take the audience from where they are at the start of your presentation, which is Point A, and move them to your objective, which is Point B. Recognizing — Jerry Weissman