Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Talmud, The

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Cross, Amanda

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

Mark Twain

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Roux, Joseph

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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

Morely, John

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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

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

Andre Malraux

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The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doctor Who

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Fadiman, Clifton

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There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Odets, Clifford

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Burns, Robert

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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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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied,'Verify your quotations.'

Sir Winston Churchill

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Caldwell O'Keefe

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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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

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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Hassan, Ihab

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

David H. Comins

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Samuel Johnson

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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elaine Gill

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor