Quotations Quotes

428 quotes by 269 authors

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. — Amos Bronson Alcott
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. — Robert Burns
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
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… — Dorothy Parker
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist… — Matt Ghaffari
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A A Milne
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. — Philibert Joseph Roux
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin
I quote others in order to better express myself. — Michel de Montaigne
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. — Seneca the Elder
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… — Winston Churchill
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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