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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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Best Quotes about Quotations

Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Pearson, Hesketh

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Baldwin, James

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Roux, Joseph

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Noonan, Peggy

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Kipling, Rudyard

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Pierre Bayle

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

Doctor Who

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Davies, Robertson

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Benjamin, Walter

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

Woolf, Virginia

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Gates, W. I. E.

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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Malcolm, Janet

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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Selden, John

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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 G. Hamerton

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca

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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Sontag, Susan