Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.