Grammar Quotes

Does do did, doesn't don't didn't. I hate grammar.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

Oh, and by the way, Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E means you are, Y-O-U-R means your.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

I support the correctly used apostrophe with that kind of fierce emotional investment in an irrelevance that most people reserve for football.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.