“Usage ain't always a matter of ought.”

“What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber”

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”

“The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.”

“On the poor use of grammar It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting.”

“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”

“No matter if I'm laughing or crying
It ain't gonna stop me from trying
The truth is what I have to uncover
In this only life.”

“Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!”

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

“To summarize the matter, teaching systems ought to be conversational in form and so devised that strategies are matched to individual competence.”