Quotes and Sayings About Grammar
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
-- Adi Shankara -
Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.
-- Andy Zaltzman -
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
-- Artemas Ward -
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
-- Charlton Laird -
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.
-- Charlton Laird -
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
-- Emma Stone -
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
-- Horace -
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
-- Isaac Goldberg -
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Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.
-- Jim GaffiganSource : FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Apr 24, 2012
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
-- Maurice Druon -
I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!
-- Miriam -
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
-- Muriel BarberySource : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.
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In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
-- Nancy Mairs -
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
-- NellySource : Song: Country Grammar, Album: Country Grammar
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
-- Octavio Paz -
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
-- Red Smith -
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
-- Richard Turner -
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
-- Robert Breault -
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
-- Robert Frost -
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Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
-- Robert Hooke -
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
-- Russell Brand