Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Quotations

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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 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

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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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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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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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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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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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 at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Orson Welles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robert Benchley

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Edward Young

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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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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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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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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 essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

Morely, John

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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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