Quotations
- The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.--Somerset Maugham
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.--George Santayana
- And yes the reason I love quotes--it gets us back to the way life used to be and should be... and we must be reminded as life is becoming very stressful, very busy, families are no longer what they "used to be" and I love to be reminded to "slow down and smell the roses" think about where you are going and what you are doing. They truly give life perspective.--Bobbi Fillmore
- An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.--L. E. Landon (Romance and Reality)
- Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.--W. Somerset Maugham (A Winter's Notebook)
- Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.--Paul Eldridge (Maxims for Modern Man)
- Be careful - with quotations you can damn anything.--Andre Malraux
- The best ideas are common property.--Seneca the Younger ("On Old Age," Moral Letters to Lucilius)
- Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.--E. M. Cioran (Anathemas and Admirations)
- Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.--Robert Andrews
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you...--F. W. Robertson
- Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Anonymous (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Don’t just collect good quotes, put them into action.--Mark Sanborn ( Up, Down, or Sideways)
- A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.--Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)
- The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.--Elias Canetti (The Human Province)
- Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?--Philip Gilbert Hamerton (The Intellectual Life)
- He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.--Rudyard Kipling (Many Inventions)
- I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.--Dorothy Sayers
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.--Montaigne ("Of the Education of Children" Essays)
- I hate quotations.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals, 1849)
- I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.--Marlene Dietrich
- I quote others only the better to express myself.--Michel de Montaigne
- I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.--Seneca the Younger ("On Tranquility of Mind" Moral Essays)
- I’m discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.--Robert Brault
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.--Winston Churchill
- It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion...--Abraham Lincoln
- Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.--Etty Hillesum
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.-~Samuel Johnson
- Most people who put together collections of verse or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries of oysters: they begin by choosing eh best and end by eating everything.--Chamfort (Maxims)
- The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.-- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.--Christopher N. Bovee (in Peter's Quotations by Peter)
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.--Diogenes (quoted by William Safire in New York Times Magazine)
- [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.--A. A. Milne (If I May)
- Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apothegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done.--Jasper Siegel Seneschal (Citations: A Brief Anthology)
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.--Miguel de Saavedra Cervantes
- Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.--Ambrose Bierce
- Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.--Peg Bracken (I Didn't Come Here to Argue)
- Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.--Chriswell Freeman
- Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.--Willis Goth Regier (Quotology)
- Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.--Barbara Pym (Crampton Hodnet)
- Though old the thought and oft exprest,
'Tis his at last who says it best.-James Russell Lowell ("For an Autograph," Under the Willows and Other Poems)
- To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I hope for.--Alexander Smith (Dreamthorp)
- A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!--Mehmet Murat ildan
- What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?--Robert Holmes (The Two Doctors)
- Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.--Bergen Evens
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.--Isaac Disraeli (Curiosities of Literature)
- What a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone else.--Marlene Dietrich
- A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful and witty, or because he expects them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read.--H. W. Fowler ("Quotation," Dictionary of Modern English Usage)
- Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.--Samuel Palmer
- You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.--Anonymous
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