Average Quote by Portia de Rossi

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary…

— Mark Twain

“Average” is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of…

— John C. Maxwell

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

— Philip Wollen

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

— Emily Post

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

— Janet Jackson

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

— Oscar Wilde

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

— Julius Caesar Scaliger

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only…

— Abbie Hoffman

“It’s not all “molly” and “asshat.” The etymologies of some words are, for the lexicographer and average joe alike, boring.”

— Kory Stamper

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell.…

— Kurt Vonnegut