Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Gates, W. I. E.

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Woolf, Virginia

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Anatole France

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

Cross, Amanda

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

Seneca

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

C. E. Montague

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

H. L. Mencken

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Orson Welles

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

Talmud, The

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

Edward Young

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes