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The serial comma is sexy, smart, and useful. – Author unknown

You know you’re a language nerd when you have a strong opinion about serial commas. – Author unknown

There’s the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It’s when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses. – Nicole Leigh Shaw

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. – Isaac Babel

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em? – Alan James Bean

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. – Sir Winston Churchill

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. – Robert Frost

Grammar is the grave of letters. – Elbert Hubbard

Grammar, which can govern even Kings. – Moli

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. – Edgar Allan Poe

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. – Carl Sandburg

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. – Source Unknown

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein