"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill

"If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things." - Confucius

"The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say." - Mark Twain

"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes

"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons." - ALDOUS HUXLEY, Adonis and the Alphabet

"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word!" - ANDREW JACKSON, quoted in an advertisement (1982)

"Language is the dress of thought." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Lives of the Eminent English Poets: Cowley

"Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world." - H.L. MENCKEN, The American Language

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work." - CARL SANDBURG, quoted in New York Times

"England and America are two countries separated by the same language." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, quoted in Reader's Digest

"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, . . . I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it." - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Journal

"Why care for grammar as long as we are good?" - ARTEMUS WARD, Artemus Ward in London

". . . English is an almost grammarless language." - RICHARD GRANT WHITE, Words and Their Uses

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." - LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

"Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the 'Mr Stalin'' and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it..." - Austin, J. L. in 'How to do Things with Words'

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Burton, Robert

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." - Egyptian Inscription

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Firth, Robert

"I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC; It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your pleased too no, Its letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew." - Minor, Janet 'Spellbound'

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'

"BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing." - Papert, Seymour

"Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past." - Rosten, Leo C. (1908- )

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English--up to fifty words used in correct context--no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )

"If you travel to the States ... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git'." - Sayle, Alexei

"Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement. Afterism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late." - Thom, James Alexander

"Real Programmers use C since it's the easiest language to spell." - Unknown