Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Gates, W. I. E.

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

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

Doctor Who

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

Seneca

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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.

Pearson, Hesketh

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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Anatole France

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

Orson Welles

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Talmud, The

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

C. E. Montague

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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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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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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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 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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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