“You can't fight a war on terror if you're ending a sentence with a preposition.”
John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
April 25, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never end a sentence with a preposition,” he recited.
“Not never; just seldom.”
Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)
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“Not never; just seldom." by Ross Thomas?
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1926-1995 American writer 1926–1995Related quotes
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.”
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) theoretical physicist
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Printonly/Dirac.html
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 43
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 168)
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“Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
