Quotes
Quotes about Grammar
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar.
Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Human pain meant but little in the Gulf War's visual grammar, a big feast of death to feed the cinecamera.
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.
Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois, Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. [Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
