Famous quotes containing the words vulgar, latin and/or grammar:
“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Status quo, you know, that is Latin for “the mess we’re in.””
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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