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11/8/2007 12:21:00 AM quoteslover
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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11/8/2007 12:21:49 AM quoteslover
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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11/8/2007 12:22:04 AM quoteslover
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Anonymous
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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11/8/2007 12:22:21 AM quoteslover
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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

C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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11/8/2007 12:22:40 AM quoteslover
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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
I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle (1947 - )
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11/8/2007 12:22:56 AM quoteslover
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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

Doctor Who
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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11/8/2007 12:23:13 AM quoteslover
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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 (1893 - 1967)
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple
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11/8/2007 12:23:29 AM quoteslover
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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.

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

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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11/8/2007 12:23:44 AM quoteslover
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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.

Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson
Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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11/8/2007 12:24:04 AM quoteslover
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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
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
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 (1901 - 1992)
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11/8/2007 12:24:20 AM quoteslover
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
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11/8/2007 12:24:35 AM quoteslover
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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, "The Intellectual Life"
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.

Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), Dictionairre Historique et Critique
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 (1803 - 1882), Journal (May 1849)
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11/8/2007 12:24:51 AM quoteslover
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman
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11/8/2007 12:25:07 AM quoteslover
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

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

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), as quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson (May 8th, 1781)
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11/8/2007 12:25:25 AM quoteslover
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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11/8/2007 12:25:42 AM quoteslover
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
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 (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
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.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
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11/8/2007 12:25:56 AM quoteslover
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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11/8/2007 12:26:15 AM quoteslover
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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 (1908 - 1976)
I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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