Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- David H. Comins

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Orson Welles

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Odets, Clifford

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

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Andre Malraux

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Cross, Amanda

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Robert Chapman

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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

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

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

Doctor Who

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

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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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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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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

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

Edward Young

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Woolf, Virginia