Quotations Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I improve on misquotation.

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

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

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

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

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

Life itself is a quotation.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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