Quotations Quotes · Page 9

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

— Roland Barthes

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

— James Alexander Thom

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

— Maria Edgeworth

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

— Emile M. Cioran

Quotes have no meanings for those who have no feelings.

— Bhargavi Rajendran

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

— Anatole France

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them…

— Elizabeth I

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic…

— Robert Bunsen

“If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to…

— Elaine Gill

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of…

— Henri Poincare

You know that they will never be in love with you but you still unconsciously finding quotes which remind you of them.

— Anonymous

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have…

— Nigel Rees

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and…

— Winston Churchill

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together…

— Christopher Buckley

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good…

— James Herriot

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would…

— Arthur Helps

I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get…

— Blake Mycoskie

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid…

— Richard Lederer

“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.”

— Anna Quindlen

He who knows quotations can overcome any type of difficulty in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

— Nigel Rees

“Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ignore the hate, accept the love, GIVE & TAKE...Ya Ali(a.s) Madad!

— Jibran Mangi's

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

— Disraeli

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

— Richard P. Feynman

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

— Ethel Smyth

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion...

— Abraham Lincoln

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

— Max Beerbohm

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

— Robert Benchley

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

— Winston Churchill

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

— Ayn Rand

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

— Bob Dylan