Motivational Quotes

Quotations

Life itself is a quotation.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Best Quotes about Quotations

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

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 short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

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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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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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anatole France

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Andre Malraux

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

Seneca

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Cross, Amanda

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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.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Orson Welles