Motivational Quotes

Quotations

Our best thoughts come from others.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Talmud, The

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

C. E. Montague

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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 must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!

Cao Xueqin

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

Andre Malraux

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

Robert Benchley

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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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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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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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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Doctor Who

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Orson Welles

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

Seneca

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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 quote others in order to better express myself.