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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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?

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 witty saying proves nothing.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I have gathered a posie of other men�s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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

I didn't really say everything I said.