English grammar Quote by Robert Breault

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

— Frans Timmermans

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole…

— Maimonides

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the…

— Hilary Mantel

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

— Voltaire

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

— Nick Harkaway

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

— Aaron Betsky