Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Talmud, The

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

Fadiman, Clifton

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Orson Welles

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

George Bernard Shaw

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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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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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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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doctor Who

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

Seneca

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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 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

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

C. E. Montague

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.