Motivational Quotes

Quotations

I didn't really say everything I said.

- Yogi Berra

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Orson Welles

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

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

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

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Doctor Who

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

Edward Young

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Talmud, The

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

Robert Benchley

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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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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Quotation... 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 or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Fowler, Henry W.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anatole France

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

Cross, Amanda

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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Hassan, Ihab

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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.