"The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish...."

"The name ["split infinitive"] is misleading, for the preposition to no more belongs to the infinitive as a necessary part of it, than the definite article belongs to the substantive, and no one would think of calling "the good man" a split substantive."

"Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) graduated in 1873 in Leyden with a thesis that would make him famous. It was in Dutch ... The famous ... physicist James Clerk Maxwell, much impressed with this piece of work, remarked that it had prompted quite a few researchers to take up the study of the 'Low Dutch Language'. ... In 1910, Van der Waals received the Nobel Prize, but the 'Low Dutch Language' never made it as an internationally accepted language of science, which in previous centuries had been Latin and Greek, later German, French and English. Today, to the regret of some, all science happens in English."

"The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."

"Luther is often praised for having given, in the 'September Bible', a language to the emerging German nation. In his Bible translation, Tyndale's conscious use of everyday words, without inversions, in a neutral word-order, and his wonderful ear for rhythmic patterns, gave to English not only a Bible language, but a new prose. England was blessed as a nation in that the language of its principal book, as the Bible in English rapidly became, was the fountain from which flowed the lucidity, suppleness and expressive range of the greatest prose thereafter."

"Five generations ago, Britain was ashamed to write books in her own tongue. Now her language is spoken in all quarters of the globe."

"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."

"Now the use of English is really a reflection of chicness. Meaning is not always important."

"To boldly go is rhythmically very neat. The Star Trek scriptwriter hasn't been linguistically bold at all."

"English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures—its cruelty is its vitality."

"I just wanted to say something about (...) my resentment of the identification of this country of Britain with royalty. As if we have nothing else to offer as a culture – the country of my birth. The great contribution, of the English anyway, to the world is literature and language. That language and literature is, in fact, in its tradition quite extensively republican and democratic. I mean our Blake, Milton, our Shelley, many many other great writers, poetry and prose, have been against the idea that Britain is a feudal or monarchic system. One of the great aspects of that tradition is represented by the name Thomas Paine, who is the moral author of your Declaration of Independence. In fact, one of the great accomplishments of the English republican movement, if you like, is the American Declaration of Independence. So it has always struck me as rather bizarre that there is this cult in the United States of English royalism – just the sort of thing I left England to get away from."

"Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"

"Virtue which parleys is near a surrender."

"Wait and see. (Herbert Asquith)"

"Where vice goes before, vengeance follows after."

"The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray. (Manser, 2007 p. 286)"

"It takes a village to raise a child."

"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk."

"Variety is the soul of pleasure. (Aphra Behn)"

"He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill."

"Let every vat stand upon its own bottom. (William Bullein)"

"It takes two to make a quarrel."

"You never know what you can do until you try."

"Two heads are better than one."

"Empty vessels make the most sound."

"Learn to walk before you run."

"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. (Henry St. John)"

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"Truth may be blamed, but it shall never be shamed."

"Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. (Strauss, 1994 p. 221)"

"A half truth is a whole lie."

"The truth shall set you free, or The truth will set you free."

"Truth seeks no corners."

"So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag. And smile, smile, smile. (George Asaf)"

"Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you."

"If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die."

"There is no tree but bears some fruit. (Mawr, 1885 p. 131)"

"The apple never falls far from the tree."

"He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner."

"Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 p.b72"

"Don't try to be someone you're not."

"Walk softly, carry a big stick."

"A bad workman blames his tools."

"A still tongue makes a wise head."

"Do not play with edged tools. (Strauss, 1994 p. 716)"

"Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today."

"Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is another day."

"Jack of all trades and master of none."

"There is no time like the present. (18th century) (Citatboken)"