Usage Quotes

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time: elements change, are reborn or forgotten, and while there are instances where transgression can become the source of an even greater wealth, this does not alter the fact that to become entitled to the liberties of playfulness or enlightened misuse of language, one must first and foremost have sworn one's total allegiance.”

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time: elements change, are reborn or forgotten, and while there are instances where transgression can become the source of an even greater wealth, this does not alter the fact that to become entitled to the liberties of playfulness or enlightened misuse of language, one must first and foremost have sworn one's total allegiance.”

“Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes particularly fierce or calm, what provokes its typical cries, and what tones of voice make it gentle or wild. Once he's spent enough time in the creature's company to acquire all this information, he calls it knowledge, forms it into a systematic branch of expertise, and starts to teach it, despite total ignorance, in fact, about which of the creature's attitudes and desires is commendable or deplorable, good or bad, moral or immoral. His usage of all these terms simply conforms to the great beast's attitudes, and he describes things as good or bad according to its likes and dislikes, and can't justify his usage of the terms any further, but describes as right and good the things which are merely indispensable, since he hasn't realised and can't explain to anyone else how vast a gulf there is between necessity and goodness.”

“I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.”

“Wisdom is the usage of Knowledge in a correct way.”

“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”

“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.”

“A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.”

“A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.”

“Dear family,I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.”