At the back of every issue of Forbes is a collection of quotes on a certain topic. This week's topic is grammar. I thought I'd share a few because they're amusing.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
---F. Scott Fitzgerald
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
---E.B. White
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
---Robert Frost
Bad spellers of the world, untie!
---Graffito
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
---Tom Stoppard
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
---Flann O'Brien
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
---Clifton Fadiman
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
---Emperor Sigismund
To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.
---Otis C. Edwards
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
---Carl Sandburg
Posted by Kathy at September 28, 2005 10:21 AM | TrackBackGreat set of quotes, especially about the German verbs. I remember Sherlock Holmes deducing a note's author by observing that only a German could be so unkind to his verbs.
Posted by: R-Five at September 28, 2005 08:45 PMEB White is a particular hero of mine. The man could write like an angel.
Posted by: RP at September 29, 2005 10:29 AM