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Quotations quotes

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

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

I didn't really say everything I said.

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

Life itself is a quotation.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

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

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

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

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.

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

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.

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

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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.

I improve on misquotation.

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?

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

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

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

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

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

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.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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