Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the… — David Swing Copy Share Image
All this is labour which never meets the eye… But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“He turns again to the others. I dislike his talk; it goes against my grain to hear him speak so contemptuously of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286… — Matt Ghaffari Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
