Age Quote by Benjamin Martin

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

— Emily Post

“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of…

— Paul Graham

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in…

— Samuel Johnson

“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A…

— Rashid Khalidi

The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the…

— Judith Martin

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly…

— Simon Winchester

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

— Francois Rabelais

“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb…

— William H. Gass

language is never neutral

— Paulo Freire

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

— Rob Pike

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous