Quotes on quotations
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Niels Bohr Quotes
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.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle.
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Matti Kuusi Quotes
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
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Author Unknown Quotes
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.
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James Murray Quotes
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. 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.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes
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.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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.
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William C. Feather Quotes
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.
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Prince de Ligne Quotes
Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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Elias Canetti Quotes
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Santayana Quotes
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Orson Welles Quotes
People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
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David H. Comins Quotes
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own. Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine. It becomes something different in its new setting.
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Robert Burton Quotes
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.
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Francis H. Bradley Quotes
I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity.
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Erkki Melartin Quotes
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
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Mark Twain Quotes
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Anatole France Quotes
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
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Joseph Farrell Quotes
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?
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Author Unknown Quotes
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
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Franklin P. Jones Quotes
Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
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Robert Byrne Quotes
A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.
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Talmud Quotes
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon Quotes
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, turns to mere dull ink.
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F.H. Bradley Quotes
Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
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James Alexander Thom Quotes
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played Carnegie Hall.
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Oscar Levant Quotes
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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William Alger Quotes
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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George Eliot Quotes
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Hesketh Pearson Quotes
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
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Mark Twain Quotes
There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Aphorism, n.: Predigested wisdom.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Let's have some new cliches.
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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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Evelyn Waugh Quotes