“Grammatically, should of is a predatory admonition; as such, it is always used as part of a herpetological phrase.”
Dave Barry
“[You don't even know what you would call this grammatical two-step. (Fourth person? First person once removed?) But you hear coaches and player do it all the time. It's a subtle way for them to keep from owning up to what they think and letting us inside their heads. So a few weeks ago, instead of saying] I really want to kick Boston's ass ... You're looking forward to winning games.”
Joe Torre
“The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it.”
Walter Cronkite
“The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.”
Dan Johnston
“War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.”
Jonathan Swift
“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
Bible
“What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition / As if they were asses taking fright / That had fled from a lion? / Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out; / Nay! but they do not fear the hereafter.”
quran
