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A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste. — Channing Tatum
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine… — Pierre Bayle
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin Percy Whipple
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I… — Joseph Addison
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an… — Ambrose Bierce
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save… — Richard Whately
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get… — Joseph Epstein
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… — Arthur Helps
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Winston Churchill
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran
When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. — Laurence J. Peter
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its… — Richard Chenevix Trench

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