Quotations Quotes
428 quotes by 269 authors
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
— James A. Baldwin
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
— Max Beerbohm
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
— Robert Benchley
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Life itself is a quotation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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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
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston Churchill
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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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
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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
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
— A A Milne
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
— Charles Edward Montague
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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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
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
— Seneca the Elder
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Quotations Quotes
269 authors contributed a total of 428 Quotations Quotes, led by these top contributors: