A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Talmud
Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. ~James Murray
Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. ~Ambrose Bierce
I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ~Terri Guillemets
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ~George Eliot
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. ~Mark Twain
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
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things. ~Dorothy Parker
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ~Miguel de Cervantes
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Richard Kemph
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. ~Author Unknown
I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. ~Erkki Melartin
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. ~Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. ~Francis H. Bradley
Always verify your quotations. ~Martin Joseph Routh
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~Rudyard Kipling
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ~Michel De Montaigne
The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. ~Robert Brault
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen. ~Lemony Snicket
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. ~John Jay Chapman
A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. ~Terri Guillemets
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~Somerset Maugham
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. ~Samuel Johnson
Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. ~Matti Kuusi
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats and one always secretes too much jelly. ~Virginia Woolf
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? ~Philip G. Hamerton
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. ~Lord John Russell
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. ~Robert Brault
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca
