"The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."

-- Lynne Truss

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Eating well is a lifelong priority.”
“... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.”

Source : Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
“Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.”
“The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.”
“There's four seasons in the UK, spring, autumn, winter and winter.”
“Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?”

Source : "Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.
“I do honor the very flea of his dog.”

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