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GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Ambrose Bierce

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is not a time of waste.

Nancy Cartwright

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.

Jason Chamberlain

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.

Unknown

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Carl Sandburg

I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it aint so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Mark Twain

I dont know the rules of grammar. If youre trying to persuade people to do something or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

David Ogilvy

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Benjamin Disraeli

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

MoliFre

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

William Somerset Maugham

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

Emperor Sigismund

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Tony Parsons

When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.

Thomas W Higginson

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

Unknown

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Beryl Margaret Bainbridge

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