We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. Booker T. Washington

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. Author Unknown

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James Joyce

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Doug Larson

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

I speak two languages: Body and English. Mae West

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. George Orwell

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

English? Who needs it. I’m never going to England. Homer Simpson