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It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble — Agona Apell

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel De Montaigne

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system. — Lykke Li

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

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

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily. — Mark Rubinstein

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — Kurt Vonnegut

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. — Ben Aaronovitch

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. — David Sedaris

Somehow, when I wasn't looking, somehow because it's electronic mail, none of the basic grammar rules applied. — MaryJanice Davidson

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them. — Red Smith

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. — Robert Breault

The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys. — Jonathan Auxier

I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me. — Jenny Han

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton

Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. — Haruki Murakami

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being. — Magda Gerber

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All yours, sweetheart. — Elena Kincaid

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. — Joan Didion

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. — Mark Twain

I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie. — Emily Hainsworth

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. — Val Kovalin

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. — Carlo Grante

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

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — Benjamin Franklin