Able Quote by Bill Bryson

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a…

— Bill Bryson

“You’re totally wrong!” Rakoff cried. He explained that the rule against split infinitives was just a bizarre invention by some pedants in the late…

— Jesse Eisinger

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

— Henry Watson Fowler

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

— Frederick Lenz

If our ways were supposed to be separated and our destinations were different, then why God made our paths to cross each other??

— Abisha

We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do that, then…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

— Vincent de Paul

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.”

— Edward Gibbon

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

— Michael Flanders

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

— Bill Bryson

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

— C. S. Lewis